The Corpus de Sang (, "Corpus of Blood") was a riot which took place in Sant Andreu de Palomar and later in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

on 7–10 June 1640, during Corpus Christi, which marked a turning point in the development of the

Reapers' War The Reapers' War (, ; , ), also known as the Catalan Revolt or Catalan Revolution, was a conflict that affected the Principality of Catalonia between 1640 and 1659, in the context of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), Franco-Spanish War of 1 ...

. The riot was between a group of harvesters and some local "''andreuencs''", during which one harvester was badly hurt.

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