The decorations hanging from the cupola of the Ateneo Church of the Gesù this Christmas season are called Neules de Mallorca, a traditional craft from the island of Mallorca or Majorca in Spain. They are cut-out paper disks with delicate designs which originally were edible wafers made of the same unleavened bread that Roman Catholic communion wafers are made of.
December 26, 2012
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The decorations hanging from the cupola of the Ateneo Church of the Gesù this Christmas season are called Neules de Mallorca, a traditional craft from the island of Mallorca or Majorca in Spain. They are cut-out paper disks with delicate designs which originally were edible wafers made of the same unleavened bread that Roman Catholic communion wafers are made of.
They are beautiful Hilda, and so are the blue lights. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Maligayang Pasko!
ReplyDeleteWow, what an idea! Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteUnique and quite charming. I suppose real wafers would get a bit stale hanging there! :-)
ReplyDeleteThis gives new meaning to the concept of a white Christmas.
ReplyDeleteEdible decorations? Leave it to the Catholics to combine a sacrament and lunch. hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteVery nice indeed!
ReplyDeleteWe never skated either...
hee hee... this reminds «Louis» (who is Lutheran) of the joke about some Lutherans who think that the communion wafers are too spicy!
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This is very interesting -- and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLovely! Hope you had a great Christmas, Hilda.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is so pretty! Kind of a new year thing... have a great one!
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