{"id":231,"date":"2016-05-09T20:27:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:29:43","slug":"cusquenian-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/cusquenian-corpus-christi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cusquenian Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Corpus Christi Cusque\u00f1o<\/h2>\n<p>Considered one of the most lavish celebrations of <strong>Cusco<\/strong>, it is the procession of 15 images of saints and virgins from the various parishes of <strong>Cusco<\/strong>, to greet the Body of Christ. Multitudinous celebration held in the <em>Plaza de Armas<\/em>, complemented by gastronomic traditions, being the <em>Chiruchu<\/em> (cold picnic) representative dish religious holiday.<\/p>\n<h3>SAINTS<\/h3>\n<p>It is known that when the Spaniards arrived in <strong>Cusco<\/strong>, viewed cult deities or mummies that were carried in procession by the <em>Incas<\/em>, reason for which and using the gospels ended that demonstration considered pagan and inserted instead of the gods images of virgins and saints, thus he was born the holiday. Today there are 15 images that come out in procession:<\/p>\n<p>1. St. Anthony parish of San Cristobal<br \/>\n2. St. Jerome&#8217;s parish district of San Jeronimo<br \/>\n3. St. Cristobal parish of San Cristobal<br \/>\n4. St. Sebastian parish in the district of San Sebasti\u00e1n<br \/>\n5. St. Barbara parish district Poroy<br \/>\n6. St. Anne parish of Santa Ana<br \/>\n7. James Apostle of the Parish of Santiago<br \/>\n8. St. Blas parish of San Blas<br \/>\n9. St. Peter&#8217;s parish of San Pedro<br \/>\n10. St. Joseph&#8217;s parish in Bethlehem<br \/>\n11. Virgin Nativity Parish Almudena<br \/>\n12. Virgin of Remedios church of Santa Catalina<br \/>\n13. Purified Virgin parish of San Pedro<br \/>\n14. Our Lady of Bethlehem in the parish of Bethlehem<br \/>\n15. Virgin of the Immaculate Conception also called &#8220;<em>La Linda<\/em>&#8221; of the Cathedral.<\/p>\n<h3>Chiriuchu<\/h3>\n<p>The <em>Chiriuchu<\/em> is an emblematic dish of the feast of <strong>Corpus Christi<\/strong>, that pottage dates from the time of the <em>Incas<\/em> and the colony, <strong><em>chiriuchu<\/em><\/strong> means <em>Chiri<\/em> = cold and <em>uchu<\/em> = chili, this dish has the ingredients the boiled hen, baked guinea pig, <em>ch&#8217;arki<\/em> or <em>chalona<\/em>, accompanied with rich flour <em>tortillas<\/em> or <em>torrejas<\/em>, toasted corn, cheese, sausage, seaweed (algae), <em>chorizo<\/em> and egg cups fish or &#8220;<em>cau cau<\/em>&#8221; and for those who like spicy, is present infaltable <em>rocoto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/944995_1144022325648934_199970843392087205_n.jpg?oh=d8481fac042efe235c0d8be563391875&amp;oe=57E054AA\" alt=\"Cusco\" width=\"731\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corpus Christi Cusque\u00f1o Considered one of the most lavish celebrations of Cusco, it is the procession of 15 images of saints and virgins from the various parishes of Cusco, to greet the Body of Christ. Multitudinous celebration held in the Plaza de Armas, complemented by gastronomic traditions, being the Chiruchu (cold picnic) representative dish religious holiday. SAINTS It is known that when the Spaniards arrived in Cusco, viewed cult deities or mummies that were carried in procession by the Incas,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/cusquenian-corpus-christi\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salkantaytrek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}