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Pope Urban the Fourth

Bishop of Rome, 1261 – 1264

In this chair

The pope of Bolsena. Established the feast of Corpus Christi for the whole Church after the bleeding Host.

Signs of this pontificate

Wonders this archive keeps that belong to the years he sat, or that he himself stood before.

EucharisticLong veneration

Bolsena–Orvieto

Bolsena, then Orvieto1263

A Bohemian priest, doubting the Real Presence, sees the Host bleed onto the corporal. Urban IV, then at Orvieto, is shown the linen — and Corpus Christi enters the calendar of the whole Church.

Return to the rail — scroll left for Peter.