The article analyses a series of recently found edits and guidelines, issued by the bishop's see between 1759 and 1809 for the Corpus Christi procession in Rio de Janeiro, as well as means of communication resorted to between the episcopate and the people. It is suggested that the procession establishes also a separation rite on the Old Regime, and that the edits and guidelines are a sort of ritual calendar.
Corpus Christi; calendar; time