Corpus Christi


A beautiful carpet of flowers with bold, colourful designs*
A beautiful carpet of flowers with bold, colourful designs

Corpus Christi is both the name of a Catholic festival and of this particular church in Miles Platting, which is in north-east Manchester. For twenty years the church members have been celebrating by laying down a carpet of flowers in the centre aisle of their brick basilica; when I heard about it I pictured something like a meadow, nothing like the amazing floral art on display when I went to visit.