True Stories: Eucharistic Miracles

By faith, we believe in what the Roman Catholic Church teaches. We were

thought in Catechism that Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is truly
present in the Most Holy Eucharist. We believe it on the words of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, who promised to give us His flesh to eat and blood
to drink, at the lakeside of Galilee (John 6, 48-60), and who fulfilled that
promise at the Last Supper (Matt. 26: 26-28; Luke 22: 19-20; Mark 14:
22-24; 1 Cor. 11: 23-25). We have also the divine, infallible testimony of
the Catholic Church which He established. The Holy Synod (the Council
of Trent) decreed in Canon 1 on the Most Holy Sacrament of the
Eucharist:

“If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist are
contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood together with
the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole
Christ, but says that He is in it only as in a sign, or figure or force, let him
be anathema.”

Our Dear Lord Over the centuries, has seen fit to work over 100 miracles
confirming His real presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament. What is the
purpose of these miracles? To prove what He said is true as the scripture
says:

“The Lord confirmed the word with signs that followed.” (Mark 16:16)

He wants us to believe His teaching and threatens us with damnation if we

do not.

“He that believeth not shall be condemned.” (Mark 16:16).

God is willing to give extraordinary means to help our faith because He

desires our salvation. Jesus goes so far as to say:

“Though you will not believe Me, believe the works.” (John 10:38) “They
give testimony of Me.”
Related below is a wonderful Eucharistic Miracle confirming Our Lord’s
real presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

First Story

For a long time the parish priest of Moncada in Spain had celebrated Mass
without any scruples of conscience, when suddenly he became the prey of
a violent doubt as to whether he had been rightly ordained. In his distress,
to allay his doubts he determined to put his case before his bishop. He
immediately set out on foot and journeyed to Valencia, the seat of the
diocese. In this place it pleased Almighty God to deliver him from his
trouble, and to give him light and peace by means of a very remarkable
miracle.

The priest had been appointed to say Christmas Mass. He had reached the
awful moment of Consecration, and with trembling hands took the host
and pronounced the words of transubstantiation with a quivering voice.
As he raised the Sacred Host aloft, and knelt again in trembling adoration,
the cry of a little five-year-old child rang out from the congregation: “O
Mama, what a lovely child! See there, Mama! He is up on the altar.” A
little lad nearby, apparently forgetful of everything else, stood upon the
chair and clapped his hands with joy. The boy’s mother was embarrassed
and bade him hush, for no one else had seen the vision of beauty; only the
innocent child saw it when the Sacred Host was raised on high. Again and
again he entreated his mother to look. “Such a beautiful child, Mama,” he
whispered, “just like the little baby over there in the crib.”

The mother and child awaited to hear a second Mass which was said by
the same priest at dawn, and again at the Elevation the little boy
exclaimed, “Oh, there he is again, Mama, don’t you see? The priest is
holding him up in his hands and now he has laid him on the altar!” The
mother bade the child be silent; she could not see anything, the great grace
being granted only to her little son.
The priest completed the Christmas offering by saying the third Mass. At
the Elevation the boy was all excitement, and the same scene was enacted
as before. The happy mother told others of this strange occurrence and
through them it reached the ears of the priest himself who, it may be
believed, was greatly comforted thereby. However, his scruples were not
entirely removed. He doubted whether the child might not have been
deceived, and therefore he requested that the little boy be cross-examined
by him. But the answers of the child were so accurate that he found no
reason to doubt the reality of the manifestation. Full of joy and filled with
gratitude towards God, he invited the little boy and his mother to be
present as often as possible at his Mass, and on each occasion the miracle
was renewed. As doubts still lingered in his mind, he resolved to receive a
final convincing proof. Taking three particles with him to the altar, he
placed two upon the corporal and consecrated them, leaving the third one
unconsecrated but within reach.

After Holy Mass was ended he called the little boy to the altar, and asked
him if he saw the divine Infant in either of the particles, and, if so, in
which. “Oh yes, Father,” said the boy, “there He is! See, He is
stretching out His hands.” The little fellow seemed quite ravished with
delight. On pointing to the other host the priest asked: “And what about
it? Is the Divine Infant also in that other host?” The child
answered, “No.” “But are you sure?” queried the priest. “Oh yes,
Father, there is nothing there.” At the last manifestation the peace of the
good priest returned to him. Unrest and scruple vanished from his mind
forever, and for the remainder of his life he served God with greater love
and piety.

PRAYER: O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All praise and

all thanksgiving be every moment Thine.

Second Story

In Valpariso, Chile, at the beginning of the 20th century, Fr. Mateo

Crawley-Boevey SS, CC., well known as the great Apostle of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus, was a young priest. Fr. Mateo told this story wherever he
preached and he found that where people were prepared to earn “three
golden coins” with love, many graces were obtained and many
conversions followed.
He relates that one day an 8 year old girl told him that Jesus spoke to her
every time she received Holy Communion. Father was somewhat skeptical
and requested her to ask Jesus to give him proof. The proof Father
requested was the sudden conversion of a certain man who was a big
sinner, a fallen away Catholic, and enemy of the Church … and also that
this man should come to him for Confession.

About a week later when Fr. Mateo was hearing confessions, the young
girl told him that this sinner was coming up to the church. As the priest
was leaving the confessional, the fallen away Catholic came into the
church and walked over to Fr. Mateo and asked him to help him with his
confession. He said that it was the first one since he was baptized. He did
not know what came over him that morning but he suddenly understood
the necessity of going to confession. Father realized that he had received
the proof he requested.
The young girl told the priest that Our Lord revealed to her that He would
give the graces to repent and mend his ways to this fallen away Catholic,
and also to many other souls. He said,

“Always ask Me for souls and I will give them to you, and tell Father
Mateo to ask Me for souls. I will give them to him, too, but first you must
become My missionary.”

She thought she was too young to be a missionary. Our Lord assured her
that He would make her His missionary and that she would have to pay a
certain price for souls. “I want you,” said Jesus, “to earn three golden
coins a day.” Our Lord then explained what He meant by golden coins.

1) The first golden coin was her prayers to Him for souls.
2) The second golden coin was her little sacrifices, especially acts of
obedience.
3) The third golden coin was a promise: “never to miss Mass or Holy
Communion through your own fault and to visit Me often in the Blessed
Sacrament.”

Third Story
On the 17th of December, 1899, the fast mail on the way from Bordeaux
to Paris met with a collision. In the mail car was Gabriel Gargam, a 30-
year-old post office express clerk. At the time of the wreck the train was
going at the speed of fifty miles an hour. By the crash Gargam was
thrown fifty-two feet. He was terribly bruised and broken and paralyzed
from the waist down. He was barely alive when lifted onto a stretcher.
Taken to a hospital, his existence for some time was a living death.
After eight months he had wasted away to a mere skeleton, weighing but
seventy-eight pounds, although normally a big man. His feet became
gangrenous. He could take no solid food and was obliged to take
nourishment by a tube. Only once in twenty-four hours could he be fed
even that way.

Gargam’s condition was pitiable in the extreme. He could not help

himself even in the most trifling needs. Two trained nurses were needed
day and night to assist him. Previous to the accident, Gargam had not been
to church for fifteen years. His aunt, who was a nun of the Order of the
Sacred Heart, begged him to go to Lourdes. He refused. She continued
her appeals to him to place himself in the hands of Our Lady of Lourdes.
He was deaf to all her prayers. After continuous pleading of his mother
he consented to go to Lourdes. It was now two years since the accident,
and not for a moment had he left his bed all that time. He was carried on a
stretcher to the train. The exertion caused him to faint, and for a full hour
he was unconscious. They were on the point of abandoning the
pilgrimage, as it looked as if he would die on the way, but the mother
insisted, and the journey was made.
Arrived at Lourdes, he was carried to the miraculous pool and tenderly
placed in its waters–no effect. Rather a bad effect resulted, for the
exertion threw him into a swoon and he lay apparently dead. On the way
back they saw the procession of the Blessed Sacrament approaching.
They stood aside to let it pass, having placed a cloth over the face of the
man whom they supposed to be dead.

As the priest passed carrying the Sacred Host, he pronounced Benediction

over the sorrowful group around the covered body. Soon there was a
movement from under the covering. To the amazement of the bystanders,
the body raised itself to a sitting posture. While the family were looking
dumbfounded and the spectators gazed in amazement, Gargam said in a
full, strong voice that he wanted to get up. He got up and stood erect,
walked a few paces and said that he was cured. The multitude looked in
wonder, and then fell on their knees and thanked God for this new sign of
His power at the shrine of His Blessed Mother. For two years hardly any
food had passed his lips but now he sat down to the table and ate a hearty
meal.

On August 20th, 1901, sixty prominent doctors examined Gargam.

Without stating the nature of the cure, they pronounced him entirely
cured. Gargam, out of gratitude to God in the Holy Eucharist and His
Blessed Mother, consecrated himself to the service of the invalids at
Lourdes. Fifteen years after his miraculous cure he was still engaged in
his strenuous and devoted work. He was for years a living, visible
testimony of the supernatural.

PRAYER: May the Heart of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament be

praised, adored and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all
the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen

Fourth Story

Some years ago, a young man was unhappily led astray into the paths of
Jewish infidelity. While still in the flower of youth, his heart was filled
with dreams of glory to be attained as a distinguished musician. One
evening he was asked to play the organ in one of the principal churches in
Paris; there in that church God awaited him, and prepared for him, not a
triumph of his self-love, but a humiliation a thousand times more glorious.

Already the roof of the sacred edifice re-echoed the sound of the solemn
chants, and the melodious tones of the organ had filled all hearts with
recollection and prayer; every head was bowed and the God of the
Eucharist had blessed His children prostrate in lowly adoration. The
unbelieving musician, alone, dared to raise his haughty brow before that
God despised by his forefathers, but in vain. A mysterious and invisible
hand bowed his head and humbled him to the ground. A miracle of grace
was effected; the young man was conquered; he knelt down a Jew; he rose
up a Catholic. His heart wounded by the Real Presence in the Sacred
Host, he left the church; soon the waters of Baptism were poured upon
him, and exchanging his fashionable attire for the coarse serge of a monk,
he bade an eternal farewell to the pleasures of the world.

A living example of the power of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament, he went from city to city, and from village to village,
proclaiming the love of God, repeating again and again:

“The days of grief are departed. I have found peace of heart since I have
tasted the delights of the tabernacle of the Lord.”

If you would know the name of this privileged soul, ask it at the cloister
of Mount Carmel, and they will tell you it was Father Augustine of the
Most Blessed Sacrament. If one single visit to the God of the Eucharist
transformed an obstinate Jew into a good Catholic, what may we not hope
to obtain by devout visits to the Blessed Sacrament?

PRAYER: O my Jesus, I adore Thee in this Holy Sacrament, as my Lord

and my God, as my Redeemer and Savior.

Fifth Story

Amsterdam, Holland — 1345

In 1345, a man who was a devout Catholic became very ill. He told his
family he would like to receive Holy Viaticum. The family notified the
pastor of the then known Old Church. The priest, after administering the
sacrament, advised the family, if the ill man threw up (which he was
known to do after taking nourishment) they were to empty the contents in
the fire. The man threw up and the family did what they were advised to
do by the priest, they threw the contents in the fire in the sick room. This
incident occurred on March 12th.

Early the next morning, one of the women went to rake the fire and she
noticed in the middle of the grate, the Blessed Sacrament in the form of
host. A light surrounded it. The woman became upset and immediately put
her hand in the fire to rescue the host. This she did without any ill effects
to herself. She did not burn her hand. The woman was surprised to find the
host was cold! She immediately called in a neighbor and asked her to take
the Sacred Host to her home. The neighbor took a clean cloth, placed the
host on it and locked it in a box. She then took it home. When the husband
of the woman who found the host heard what had taken place, he
requested to see it. He tried to lift it off the white cloth it rested on but the
Sacred Particle resisted as if to say it did not want to be touched by this
man’s hands.

A priest was then summoned who took the host and placed it in a pyx.
When he went to wash the cloth which held the Blessed Sacrament and
return it to the original box, he noticed the pyx was upset and the host was
gone!

The next morning the neighbor returned for her original box and cloth.
When she opened the locked box she once again found the Sacred Host in
it! There was then no doubt that Our Lord wanted this miracle to be made
known! The priest notified the clergy of Amsterdam and a procession was
held to carry the host to the church.

The home of the sick man soon became a chapel and as early as 1360
public processions and pilgrims traveled to the site of the miracle.

On May 25, 1452, a large conflagration broke out which left three fourths
of the city in ruins. It was during this time, the chapel known as the Holy
Room became subject to the flames. Strangely, the monstrance containing
the Miraculous Host, (which had been brought over to the chapel from the
old church) was spared. In 1456, a new Holy Room was built surrounded
by a beautiful church.

Many pilgrims went to visit the shrine seeking cures and spiritual help.
One pilgrim, archduke Maximilian, later a Roman Emperor, came seeking
a cure in 1480. God heard his prayer and he was cured. In thanksgiving,
the archduke dedicated a beautiful window to the Holy Room.

By the second half of the sixteenth century, Catholics in Amsterdam fell

under persecution of the Protestants. The Holy Room fell under Protestant
rule. In 1910, rather than sell the property to the Catholics, the chapel was
torn down. However, devotion to this Eucharistic Miracle still takes place
on March 12th at the church nearest the site.

PRAYER: O sweetest Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may love Thee more
and more. Jesus meek and humble of Heart, make my heart like unto
Thine.

Only in the Catholic Church is Jesus truly present in the Holy Eucharist.
This is one of the great proofs that the Catholic Church is the One True
Church.

Sixth Story

Two Eucharistic Miracles 1,300 years apart Confirm Real Presence of

Jesus Christ: show same blood type and DNA.

Recently, after a scientific investigation, a eucharistic miracle in Poland

was confirmed as authentic by the local bishop of the area. Initially, the
Host had fallen on the ground, so it was placed in water, as is customarily
done in such cases. Not long afterward, the Eucharist began turning red, as
if bloody.

Tests subsequently done on the subject indicated it came from human

tissue“most similar to the heart muscle … as it appears under the strains
of agony.”

This wonderful miracle is similar to the one that occurred in Buenos Aires,
Argentina years ago. In 1996, when then-Bishop Jorge Bergoglio (now
Pope Francis) was an auxiliary bishop there under Cdl. Antonio
Quarracino. A consecrated Host was found on the ground soon placed in a
glass of water to dissolve. Days later, the Eucharist wasn’t dissolved at all
— it had turned into bloody Flesh.
Cardinal Quarracino and Bp. Bergoglio took a photograph of the bloody
Host for the record, then stored it in a tabernacle to decompose. In 1999,
three years later, that same bloody Flesh remained. That’s when Dr.
Ricardo Castañón, a Bolivian neurophysiologist, was called in to have
samples from the Host examined in a laboratory environment.

Doctor Castañón took it to the San Francisco Forensic Institute without

telling anyone there what it was or where it came from. After testing, he
was told the samples constituted heart muscle, specifically from the
myocardium of the left ventricle. Further, the tests showed the blood was
human, with human DNA, and of the rare AB-positive type — the same as
found on the Shroud of Turin.
Following those results, the Host was taken to Dr. Frederick Zugibe, an
esteemed cardiologist and forensic pathologist at Columbia University in
New York. According to Dr. Castañón, Dr. Zugibe tested the samples he
was given and said the person whose heart it came from must have been
tortured. Further, Dr. Zugibe was reportedly amazed that when he studied
the samples, they were pulsating like a living, beating heart.

When Dr. Castañón first came across the miracle in 1999, he was an
atheist. Today, he’s a Catholic.

After that, the results of the tests were compared to samples from another
eucharistic miracle that took place in Lanciano, Italy roughly 1,300 years
ago. The Body and Blood from that miracle are still preserved at a church
in the town. In 1970, they were examined scientifically and, like the
Buenos Aires sample, found to be from a human heart with AB-positive
blood.

The miracle of Lanciano on display

The comparison indicated that the samples from both Buenos Aires and
Lanciano must have come from the same man. They both had the exact
same DNA.

Church leaders are always careful to test potential miracles and rule out
natural causes. Last year, in Utah, a Host that had been dropped and kept
in water appeared blood red after days. However, after a thorough
investigation, the red substance turned out not to be blood but rather mold.
So the Church isn’t quick to label every case like this miraculous. But
sometimes, after healthy skepticism and cautious investigation, there’s no
other conclusion that can be drawn.

Seventh Story

In the pretty town of Seefield which nestles among the Alps in the
Austrian Tyrol, a great miracle took place nearly 600 years ago. One day a
nobleman went to Mass with the intention of going to Holy Communion
and, not wishing to receive the same size Host as that given the peasants
and faithful, through pride asked the priest to give him one as large as that
consecrated in the Mass. The priest, through fear of incurring the anger of
this great man and thereby losing his good pleasure, consented to this. The
moment of Communion arrived; the nobleman presented himself at the
altar to receive and knelt at the side of the altar on the step, being too
proud to kneel at the rail with the peasants. The large Host was placed
upon his tongue, but he was unable to swallow It. In trying to do so, the
Precious Blood flowed from It and It shriveled up and clung to his
tongue.

Furthermore, the ground gave way beneath him and he sunk into it up to
his knees. In an agony of fear he grasped the end of the altar and implored
the priest to remove the Sacred Host from his mouth. The latter did so and
was surprised to find that the Host was marked with what appeared to be
the Five Wounds. When the nobleman clung to the altar, though it was
made of stone it melted under his touch. He was stricken with remorse and
then and there made a vow of perpetual reparation. To this end he shortly
entered a monastery where he performed the most austere penances the
remainder of his life and finally died in the odor of sanctity.

The Sacred Host with its miraculous markings is still preserved and may
be seen by all who visit the church, and the account of the miracle is
written in every language and hung up in frames on the walls. The hole
made in the ground when the nobleman sank into it is also plainly visible,
and the imprint of his fingers upon the altar stone when it softened beneath
his touch is also shown.

Eight Story
It was the custom at Constantinople in the sixth century, at times when the
Blessed Sacrament was renewed in the Ciborium, to distribute among
young and innocent children the Sacred Hosts which remained from the
last Consecration.

It happened one day that a little Jewish boy was brought from the schools
along with other children for this purpose, and received Communion along
with them. On reaching home, his father, who was a glass-founder by
trade, questioned him as to the cause of his returning so late from school.
The child simply related what had happened, whereupon his father,
blinded by fury and carried away by hatred of the Christian religion,
seized the child and flung him into the red-hot furnace where the glass was
melted.

The mother, unaware of what had happened, on discovering her loss, filled
the house with her cries and lamentations, seeking everywhere for her
missing child. On the third day, happening to pass by the furnace door, she
beheld her child seated in the midst of the flames, alive and uninjured, and
not appearing to suffer the least inconvenience from the raging element.
Having clasped him in her arms, she asked him how it was that he was not
burnt up in the midst of the red-hot coals.

“Mother,” said he, “a lady dressed in purple often came to me during

these three days, and threw water round me to put out the fire. She also
brought me food.”

The whole city was soon filled with the news of this prodigy, which
resulted in the immediate conversion of the child and mother. The
unhappy father, however, continued hardened in his infidelity, and was
condemned to death by the Emperor Justinian for the attempted murder of
his child.

Ninth Story

A Jew was amusing himself in a public square when there passed a priest,
who, accompanied by a crowd, carried the most holy Viaticum to a sick
person. All the people on bended knees rendered due homage of adoration
to the most Holy Sacrament; the Jew alone made no movement, nor gave
any token of reverence.

This being seen by a poor woman, she exclaimed, “O miserable man, why
do you not show reverence to the true God present in this Divine
Sacrament?” “What true God?” said the Jew sharply. “If this was so,
would not there be many gods, since on each of your altars there is one
during Mass?”

The woman instantly took a sieve, and holding it up to the sun, told the
Jew to look at the rays which passed through it, and then added, “Tell me,
Jew, are there many suns which pass through the openings of this sieve, or
only one?”And the Jew answering that there was but one
sun, “Then,” replied the woman, “why do you wonder that an incarnate
God, veiled in the Sacrament, though one, indivisible, and unchangeable,
should, through excess of love, place Himself in His true and Real
Presence on different altars?” By means of this illustration, he was led to
confess the truth of the Real Presence.

Tenth Story

Frederick II was attacking the town of Assisi, with an army composed of

the lowest ranks of society, and many were infidels. Near the gate of the
city stood a convent of nuns, governed by the holy abbess St. Clare. This
was the first place these ruffians attacked. They placed ladders against the
walls and prepared to ascend, and it seemed as if in a few moments the
spouses of Christ would fall into the hands of those wicked men. But Jesus
was there to help His servants.

In this extremity St. Clare called together her nuns, and going into the
chapel, she, by an inspiration from Heaven, caused the ciborium
containing the Sacred Body of Our Lord to be carried to the place where
the men were already beginning to ascend; then with her eyes raised up
towards it, she said:
“O my beloved Jesus, save Thy servants whom Thou hast brought hither
to serve Thee, and whom Thou dost so often nourish with Thy precious
Body.”

Her prayer ended, she was interiorly admonished that the protection of
Heaven was over her. The soldiers were struck blind, and a panic arose
amongst them; they all took to flight as though pursued by an immense
army.

PRAYER: Most Holy Trinity I adore you, My God, My God I Love You
in the most Blessed Sacrament.

Eleventh Story

This miracle is related to the Albigensian Heresy, which was promoted

throughout Southern France. The Abligensians denied the True Presence
of Christ in the Eucharist, as well as encouraging sexual promiscuity and
denying the Sacraments. It was condemned by the Church in the 11th
Century but managed to keep a hold on this area until well into the 13th
Century.

In responding to this threat to the Eucharist, King Louis VIII (father of

Saint Luis IX) built a church in France to honor the Blessed Sacrament .
On September 14th, 1226, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross he
made a public act of reparation for the sacrilege committed by the
Albigenses. A procession of the Eucharist was made to the church and the
King met them as they arrived, dressed in sack cloth, a rope around his
waist, and a candle in his hand.

The Blessed Sacrament was exposed all that night and many days
afterwards until the Bishop decided that the Blessed Sacrament should
stay perpetually exposed. This custom was followed by his successors and
approved by the Holy Father. The Church was in the care of the Grey
Penitents of the Franciscan Order.

After about 200 years of perpetual adoration the miracle occurred:

 Avignon was subject to recurrent flooding, and on November 30, 1433
the flood was greater than usual, so great that it threatened not only the
church floor but all the way up the altar and the monstrance where the
Eucharistic was kept .

Concerned about the Eucharist in the tabernacle of the church, two of the
friars had to take a boat to reach the church and were dismayed to see that
the water had risen to about half way up the doors. Fearful of what they
might find inside, they were shocked to discover that although the water
rose up on walls on both sides of the aisle, the center was perfectly dry
and the Eucharist un-touched. The friars reflected upon this as the read
from the Bible to story of the parting of the Red Sea and likened it to
that miracle.
Hundreds of people came to the church and witnessed the event that night.
A tradition followed based on the actions the night of the flood. Each
year, on November 30th in the chapel of the Church in Avignon, the
Franciscan Grey Penitents tie a rope around their necks and then crawl on
their hands and knees, re-creating that night in 1433.

PRAYER: Most Holy Trinity I Adore You, My Lord, My God, I Love

You In The Most Blessed Sacrament!

Twelfth Story

ITALY, 750
Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano In the year 750.

In the Abruzzi village of Lanciano, above the place where a Church

dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi now stands, a Eucharistic miracle took
place whose precious Relics are still preserved today, and which are
open for visitation.

The various chronicles of the time tell how in the year 750, a priest
was celebrating Holy Mass. Exactly at the moment of the Consecration,
the priest was tormented by strong doubts as to whether the Body and
Blood of Jesus were truly present in the consecrated Host. He had just
finished the Consecration when he noticed that the Host had been
transformed into Flesh and the Wine into Blood. The priest, filled with
regret for having doubted, began to weep and seek pardon from God.
In the chronicles, the testimony of numerous members of the faithful
who witnessed the Miracle is also recorded.

In 1970, exactly 12 centuries later, the Archbishop of Lanciano and the

Provincial Superior of the Conventual Franciscan Fathers arranged for
the Relics of the Host turned into Flesh and the Wine turned into Blood
to be analyzed by the noted professor Edward Linoli, director of the
hospital in Arezzo and professor of anatomy, histology, chemistry, and
clinical microscopy.
On March 4, 1971, the Professor presented a detailed summary of the
various studies carried out.

Here are the basic conclusions:

1. The “miraculous Flesh” is truly flesh, made up of striated muscle tissue
of the myocardium (part of the heart).
2. The “miraculous Blood” is truly blood: the chromatography (color)
analysis proves this with absolute and irrefutable certainty.
3. The immunological study shows that the Flesh and the Blood are
definitely those of human being and the immuno-hematological test
allows us to affirm that both belong to the same blood group
AB, the same group as that of the man of the Shroud (of Turin) and
the blood group typical of the populations in the Middle East.
4. The proteins contained in the Blood have the normal distribution, in
the identical percentage as that of the serum-protein pattern of normal
fresh blood.
5. There were no traces of the salts or other preservative substances
used in antiquity to mummify corpses.

This report was published in various international scientific journals

and attracted a great interest in the whole world, so much so that in
1973, the Superior Council of the World Health Organization
appropriately appointed a commission of scientists who carried out
more than 500 examinations on the Relics from the Miracle. The
commission confirmed the results of the analyses carried out by
Professor Linoli. In addition, the scientific commission declared that
 the Flesh and the Blood of the Miracle of Lanciano are just the same
as they would be if they had been taken that very day from a living
being. In the extract summarizing the scientific investigations of the
World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN),
published in December of 1976 in New York and Geneva, it was
declared that “science, aware of its limitations, is forced to admit the
impossibility of giving an explanation.”

Fourteenth Story

Eucharistic Miracle of Ferrara.

This Eucharistic Miracle occurred at Ferrara, at the Basilica of Santa

Maria in Vado, on Easter Sunday (March 28, 1171).
Fr. Peter of Verona, prior of the Basilica, assisted by three of his friars
(Bono, Leonardo and Aimone) was celebrating Easter Mass and when
the time came for the breaking of the consecrated Host, he saw a
stream of blood spray from the consecrated Host, which stained the
little vault overhanging the altar of sacrifice with its tiny drops.

Bishop Amata of Ferrara as well as Archbishop of Gherardo were

immediately informed of the occurrence, and were able to see in
person “the Blood which appeared in a lively red color on the little
vault above the altar.”

In 1595, to better preserve it, the little vault was enclosed in a small
shrine which still can be seen at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Vado at
Ferrara.

In the earliest documents, the testimonies of some of the faithful who

were present at the miracle are recorded, in which they tell of seeing
the Host assume a blood-red color and of noticing the figure of an
Infant in it.

The church immediately became a pilgrimage site, and was successively

restored and expanded by order of Duke Ercole (Hercules) I of
Este,beginning in 1495.
Among the most authoritative testimonies that report the Miracle, there
is the Bull of Pope Eugene IV (March 30, 1442) and the manuscript of
Gerardo Cambrense from the year 1197 which is preserved at the
Lamberth Library in Canterbury.
Even today, in the Basilica, now in the care of the Missionaries of the
Precious Blood of St. Gaspare of Bufalo, Eucharistic Adoration is held
on the 28th day of each month in commemoration of the Miracle, and
each year, in preparation for the feast of Corpus Christi, the Forty
Hours’ Devotion is celebrated. In 1971, the 800th anniversary of the
Miracle was celebrated.

Fifteenth Story

Eucharistic Miracle of Trani ITALY, 11th Century.

At Trani, in Puglia (Italy), there is preserved at the Church dedicated to

St. Andrew the Relic of this Eucharistic Miracle, which took place
around the year 1000 and is recounted in numerous documents.

A woman from a non Christian religion, not believing in the truth of the
Catholic Dogma of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, assisted
by a Christian friend, during the celebration of a Holy mass, succeeded in
stealing a consecrated Host. The woman, as if to challenge God, then
placed the consecrated Host in a greased frying-pan over a fire.
Suddenly, a great quantity of blood started dripping from the Host and
spilled out onto the floor, to the point of flowing out to the doorway by
the entrance of the house.

Brother Bartolomeo Campi describes in his work, in (1625) Eucharistic

Miracle of Trani an accurate account of how these events unfolded:

“Pretending to be a Christian, the woman went to communion with the

others…and having taken the Particle, she took it out of her mouth and
placed in her handkerchief. Returning home, and wishing to test whether
it was bread or not, she placed that blessed Particle into a pan full of oil
in order to fry it…Upon contact with the boiling oil, the Particle
miraculously became flesh dripping with blood, and the hemorrhaging of
blood, as we might call it, did not cease at that point, but instead, so
much blood spilled out of the pan that it flowed out and flooded the entire
house. Terrified and full of dread, the woman began to scream…and the
neighbors immediately ran to see what might be the cause of such
great wailing…”

The Archbishop was immediately informed of the occurrence and

ordered the miraculous Host to be reverently brought back to the church.
The Cistercian Abbot Ferdinando Ughelli (1670), wrote:

“At Trani is venerated a holy Host, fried to the contempt in which our
faith, revealed the unleavened bread, appeared the real flesh and real
blood of Christ, which fell to earth.”

An indirect confirmation of the miracle is found also in affirmation of St.

Pio of Pietrelcina, who said:

“Trani is fortunate, because the Blood of Christ has washed his land.”

In 1706 the woman’s house was converted into a chapel by the generous
offer of the noble Octavius Campitelli. The Relic of the Host was placed
in 1616 in an antique silver reliquary donated by Fabrizio de Cunio. On
this holy relics were many checks and inspections carried out at different
times, the last dating back to 1924, during the Eucharistic Congress
interdiocesan by Monsignor Giuseppe Maria Leo.

NOTE: PLS DO NOT COMMIT THE SACRILEGE this Pagan Lady

Commited By Desecrating The Holy Eucharist. Rather As Christians And
Children Of God We Should Treat Jesus Who Is Present Body And Soul
In The Eucharist With Utmost love and Respect.

Sixteenth Story

Eucharistic Miracles Of St. Peter Damian.

St. Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church, describes an important
Eucharistic Miracle of which he was a direct witness in his
work “Opusculum XXXIV, Patrologia Latina, vol. CXLV,col.573.” We
record here in translation the episode as the Saint himself recounts it:

“This is a Eucharistic event of great importance. It took place in 1050.

A woman, giving into some abominable temptations, was about to take
the Eucharistic Bread to her house to commit a sacrilege. However, a
priest noticed what was happening, chased after her, and recovered the
Host which the sacrilegious woman had stolen.

At that point, when he unfolded the white linen in which the Sacred Host
had been wrapped, noticed that it was transformed in such a way that
half of the Host had become the Body of the Lord in a visible way,
while the other half maintained the ordinary appearance of Bread.

By such clear testimony, God wished to triumph over unbelief and

heresy on the part of those who refused to accept the Real Presence in the
Eucharistic Mystery: in half of the consecrated bread, the Body of the
Lord was made visible, while the other half was left in its natural form,
to better demonstrate the reality of sacramental transubstantiation on
which takes place at the Consecration.”

Seventeenth Story

Eucharistic Miracle of Rimini, ITALY, 1227.

In the city of Rimini, it is still possible today to visit the church built
in honor of the Eucharistic Miracle worked by St. Anthony of Padua in
1227. This episode is cited as well in the Begninitas, a work
considered to be among the most ancient sources for the life of St.
Anthony:

This holy man was conversing with a Cathar heretic who was against the
Sacrament of the Eucharist, and the Saint was on the point of leading
him to the Catholic Faith. But this heretic, after the many and varied
arguments, declared:
‘If you, Anthony, succeed with a miracle in proving to me that the Body
of Christ is truly present in Holy Communion, then I, after totally
renouncing heresy, will immediately convert to the Catholic Faith. Why
don’t we issue a challenge? I will close up one of my animals for three
days in a cage, and will make it feel the torment of hunger. After three
days, I will lead it out in public and will show it some prepared food.
You will stand out in front with a monstrance containing the Body of
Christ. If the animal, passing up the fodder, hastens to adore his God, I
will embrace the faith of your Church.’

St. Anthony, enlightened and inspired from on high, accepted the

challenge. The appointment was set in the Piazza Grande or Grand Plaza,
(now the Piazza Tre Martiri or “Plaza of the Three Martyrs”), attracting an
immense crowd of curious observers. On the day appointed, at the hour
agreed upon, the subjects of this unusual challenge made their appearance
at the Piazza Grande, followed by their supporters – Saint Anthony by
the Catholic faithful, Bonovillo (this was the Cathar heretic’s name) by
his disbelieving allies. The Saint stepped forward, holding in his hands
the consecrated Host enclosed in a monstrance, the heretic holding the
starving mule by his hand. The Saint, after asking for and obtaining
silence, turned to the mule with these words:

“By virtue of and in the name of your Creator, Whom I, however

unworthy I may be, hold in my hands, I tell you and command you:
come forward at once and render homage to the Lord with due respect,
so that evildoers and heretics may understand that all creatures should
bow before their Creator, Whom the priests hold in their hands on the
altar.”

And at once the animal, disregarding his master’s food, obediently

approached the saint: it bent its front paws before the Host and
remained there in humble adoration. Anthony had not been deceived in
respecting the sense of fairness on the part of his opponent, who fell to
his feet and publicly renounced his errors, becoming from that day
forward one of the most zealous cooperators of the wonder-working Saint.
Eighteenth Story

Eucharistic Miracle of Alatri ITALY, 1228.

At Alatri, the Relic of the Eucharistic Miracle which occurred in 1228,

consisting of a fragment of the Host turned into flesh, is still preserved
today at the Cathedral of St. Paul the Apostle.

A young woman, to win back the love of her boyfriend, had recourse to a
sorceress, who ordered her to steal a consecrated Host in order to make a
love potion from it. During the Mass, at the time of Holy Communion, the
young woman succeeded in stealing a Host, which she concealed in a
piece of cloth. When she arrived home, however, she noticed that the Host
had been transformed into bleeding flesh.

The woman then ran to the sorceress and together they made their way to
the Bishop to ask forgiveness. Numerous documents recount this miracle,
among which is the Papal Bull Fraternitas Tuae (March 13, 1228) written
by Pope Gregory IX in response to the Bishop of Alatri, who asked him
how he should deal with the two women who committed the sacrilege.

The Supreme Pontiff Gregory IX pardoned the two repentant women,

interpreting the episode as a sign sent by the Lord in response to the
various heresies concerning the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist
which were circulating at that time.

NOTE: Pls Do Not Leave The Church With The Host In Your Hands,
Clothes, Bags, etc. Rather Consume The Host Before Leaving The
Church.

Nineteenth Story

Eucharistic Miracles of Florence, ITALY, 1230-1595.

In the Church of St. Ambrose in Florence, the relics of two Eucharistic

 Miracles, one which occurred in the year 1230 and the other in the year
1595, are preserved.

In the Miracle of 1230, a priest named Father Uguccione, as he finished

Mass, by mistake left some drops of the consecrated wine in the chalice.
The following day, when he returned to celebrate Mass in the same
church, he found in the chalice some drops of living blood which had
coagulated and turned into flesh-color. The blood was immediately
placed into a cruet made of crystal. Among the most authoritative
testimonies which recount this miracle is that of the historian Giovanni
Villani.

In 1399, Pope Boniface IX, granted to the faithful who visited the
Church of St. Ambrose and contributed to the adornment of the Reliquary
of the Miracle the same indulgence granted for those visiting the
Porziuncola in Assisi. In 1980, the 750th anniversary of the Miracle
was commemorated.

The second Eucharistic Miracle took place on Good Friday of the year
1595. By accident, a candle was left lit on the altar of the side chapel,
named the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, causing a raging fire. The
people ran at once to put out the fire and managed to salvage the Blessed
Sacrament and the chalice. In the general confusion, six consecrated
Hosts fell from the ciborium onto the flaming carpet, and yet despite the
fire, the Hosts were recovered intact and still next to each other.

In 1628, the Archbishop of Florence, Marzio Medici, after examining

them, found them to be incorrupt and so had them placed in a precious
reliquary. Each year, during the Forty Hours devotion which takes
place, the Relics of the two miracles are exposed together in a reliquary
also containing a consecrated Host for public adoration.

Twentieth Story

ITALY 1240
Eucharistic Miracle of Assisi.
St. Clare of Assisi’s great faith in the Eucharist brought about this
Eucharistic Miracle, which is described by Thomas of Celano in the
Legend of St. Claire, Virgin, contained in Franciscan Sources.

In 1240, Saracen troops employed by Frederick II of Swabia, known

for their savagery and cruelty, were assembled at the monastery
of San Damiano, where St. Clare and her fellow sisters resided. St.
Clare, filled with trust in the Eucharistic Jesus, with great courage
took the Blessed Sacrament and went out with it to face the Saracen
troops, begging God to spare the life of her sisters and to protect the
city of Assisi.

The Lord heard the fervent prayers of St. Clare and immediately the
Saracens, as if repelled by a mysterious force, moved away from the
monastery of San Damiano and departed from the city of Assisi, which
did not suffer any damage.

Twenty-First Story

ITALY, 1264
Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena.

In the summer of 1264, a Bohemian priest named Father Peter of

Praguecame to Italy to be received in audience by Pope Urban
IV, who was residing at Orvieto that summer together with numerous
cardinals and theologians, among whom St. Thomas Aquinas was also
present. Father Peter of Prague, just after being received by the Pope,
set out for his return trip to Bohemia.

Along the way, he stopped at Bolsena, where he decided to celebrate

Mass in the church named in honor of St. Christina.

The priest began to celebrate Mass and had just finished pronouncing
the words of consecration when he saw that the Host which he held
in his hands had been transformed into living Flesh sprinkled with red
Blood, which spilled onto the altar, staining the altar cloth and the
corporal.
Thanks to this Miracle, the Lord strengthened the faith of the priest,
who despite his manifest piety and moral uprightness, often nurtured
doubts concerning the Real Presence of Christ under the species of
the Bread and consecrated Wine.

News of the Miracle spread at once, so that both the Pope and St.
Thomas Aquinas could immediately confirm the Miracle in person.
After a thorough examination, Pope Urban IV approved the miracle. He
then decided to extend the feast of Corpus Christi, which up to that
time had only been a local feast of the Diocese of Liegi, to the entire
Church universal. The Pope assigned St. Thomas the task of drawing
up the liturgy which was to accompany the Papal Bull “Transiturus de
hoc mundo ad Patrem”, in which the reasons for which the Eucharist is
so mportant for the life of the Church were set out.

It is still possible today to venerate the Relics of the altar cloth and the
corporal stained with Blood which are preserved in the Cathedral of
Orvieto.

Twenty-Second Story

ITALY, 1273.
Eucharistic Miracle of Offida.

In 1273, at Lanciano, a woman named Ricciarella, in order to regain

the affection of her husband Giacomo Stasio, at the suggestion of a
sorceress, came up to Holy Communion to steal a consecrated Host.
Returning to her house, she put the Host over a fire above an
earthenware jar with the intention of reducing it to powder and then
putting it in her husband’s food.

The Host, however, was transformed into bleeding flesh. Ricciarella,

terrified by what was happening, wrapped up the jar and the bleeding
Host in a linen cloth and then buried it in a hole under a pile of
manure in her husband Giacomo’s stable. Giacomo’s donkey, every
time it entered the stable, knelt down and genuflected towards the place
where the miraculous Host was buried, so much so that it made
Giacomo suspect that his wife had inflicted a curse on the animal.

Seven years later Ricciarella, filled with remorse, confessed her horrible
sacrilege to Father Giacomo Diotallevi of Offida, who was prior of the
Augustinian monastery in Lanciano at that time. As the earliest
accounts tell us, the woman, in tears, began to shout to the priest: “I
killed God! I killed God!”

The priest, when he arrived at the stable, found the wrapped up bundle
intact together with the Relics, which were then handed over to her
fellow citizens. To preserve the Sacred Host, the citizens of Offida
made a reliquary in the form of a Cross. As an ancient narrative reports,
Brother Michael and a fellow religious brother were sent to a goldsmith
in Venice. Arriving there, they made the goldsmith promise “that he
would not tell anyone what he was about to see and place inside the
Cross.”

The goldsmith then took the pyx containing the miraculous Host into
his hand, but was immediately overcome with a high fever. The
goldsmith, filled with terror at that point, exclaimed: “What have you
brought me, my brother?” The monk then asked him if by chance he
was in the state of mortal sin. The goldsmith answered “yes,” made his
confession, and the fever disappeared immediately. He then took the
pyx, took the Host out of it, and placed it in the Cross.

There are numerous documents which describe the miracle, among

which is an authentic copy of a parchment from the 13th century,
transcribed by the notary Giovanni Battista Doria in 1788. There are,
in addition, numerous Papal Bulls, beginning with that of Pope Boniface
VIII in 1295, up to that of Pope Sixtus V in 1585.

Today the Relic of the jar and the cloth stained by Blood together
with the Cross containing part of the miraculous Host are exposed in
the Church of St. Augustine in Offida. The house of Ricciarella at
Lanciano has been in turn converted into a small chapel.
In 1973, the seventh centenary of the Miracle was commemorated, and
on May 3 of each year, the citizens of Offida celebrate the anniversary of
the Miracle.

NOTE: pls DO NOT commit the sacrilege this woman committed, rather
reverence the consecrated Host with great love and respect.

Twenty-Third Story

ITALY, 1294
Eucharistic Miracle of Gruaro Valvasone.

In 1294 a young housekeeper from the church rectory was heading

toward the washhouse of the Versiola to wash the altar-cloth of the
Church of Saint Giusto of Gruaro. Unexpectedly, the woman noticed
that a consecrated Host had been left by mistake between the three
folds of the altar-cloth, from which blood was flowing out.

Frightened by this inexplicable event, she ran quickly to inform the

Pastor, who in turn informed the Bishop of Concordia, Giacomo
d’Ottonello of Cividale. Once he corroborated the facts, the Bishop
requested that the altar cloth of the Miracle be placed in his Cathedral at
Concordia.

But the pastor of Gruaro as well as the family of the Counts of Valvasone,
patrons of the church in Gruaro and of the one in Valvasone, wanted to
keep the altar-cloth. No agreement was reached and so it was decided to
have recourse to the Holy See, which in the end gave authority to the
Counts to preserve the Relic of the Miracle in Valvasone, on condition
that they have a church built there in honor of the Body of Christ, to
be completed by the year 1483.

The most authoritative and the earliest document describing the Miracle is
a copy made from the original account by Pope Nicholas V. Each year on
Thursday of the 5th Week of Lent, the citizens of Valvasone
commemorate the Miracle. On the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Relic of the
stained altar-cloth is carried in procession together with the Blessed
Sacrament.

Twenty-Fourth Story

Eucharistic Miracle of Cascia.

ITALY, 1330

At Cascia, in the Basilica dedicated to St. Rita, there is preserved the

Relic of a significant Eucharistic Miracle which took place at Sienna in
1330.

A priest had been requested to bring Holy Communion to a sick peasant.

The priest took a consecrated Host, but placed it irreverently between the
pages of his breviary and set out for the peasant’s home.

Having arrived at the sick peasant’s home, after hearing his confession,
the priest opened up his breviary to take out the Host which he had placed
in it, but to his great surprise, he noticed that the Host had been stained
with living blood, enough to penetrate both pages of the breviary
between which it had been placed.

The priest, perplexed and penitent, immediately went to

the Augustinian monastery in Siena to seek the advice of Father
SimonFidati, who was from Cascia and was known by all to be a holy
man. When he heard the priest’s account, he absolved him and requested
that he keep the two pages stained with the Precious Blood.

Numerous Popes have promoted the devotion associated with this Miracle
through the granting of indulgences.