Eucharist:
Bread or Body?
Bread or Body?
14 Eucharistic Miracles
Austria
St. Georgenburg-Fiecht 1310
In the year of grace 1310, a priest was
celebrating Holy Mass in this church dedicated
to the holy martyr George and the Holy Apostle
James.
After consecrating the wine, he was seized with
a doubt as to whether the Blood of Christ was
really present under the species of wine.
Suddenly the wine changed into red blood that
began to boil in the chalice and overflow it.
Austria
St. Georgenburg-Fiecht 1310
The abbot placed the remainder in a vessel in
the tabernacle of the main altar near the cloth
with which the chalice was wiped.)
As soon as news of this miraculous event began
to spread, more and more pilgrims began to
arrive to adore the sacred Blood. In 1472,
Bishop Georg von Brixen ordered a study and
as a result of this investigation, the adoration of
the Blessed Blood was encouraged and the
miracle was declared authentic.
St. Georgenburg-Fiecht 1310
Austria - Seefeld 1384
On Holy Thursday night, 1384, a knight attended
Mass at the parish church in Seefeld. He was a
man of exceeding arrogance and pride.
After Mass, the knight approached the high altar
with his sword drawn, his head covered and
surounded by a band of intimidating armed men,
and demanded he be given the large host - the
small host normally given to the congregation he
regarded too ordinary for him. The frightened
priest handed him the host, and the knight
remained standing as he took it.
Austria - Seefeld 1384
But as soon as he had the Host in his mouth, he
sank into the ground up to his knees. He grasped
the altar with both hands, leaving imprints that
can still be seen. Filled with terror, he begged the
priest to remove the host from his mouth.
The priest immediately took back the Host. The
trembling stopped and live blood began dripping
from the Host. The humiliated knight rushed to
the monastery of Stams, confessing and repenting
his sin of arrogance. The Host, stained with blood,
can be seen at the Church of St. Oswald.
Austria - Weiten 1411
A thief broke into the sacristy and slipped a
consecrated Host into one of his gloves. The thief
then mounted his horse intending to make for the
nearby village of Spitz.
When he arrived at the spot that today is marked
by a chapel in honor of the miracle, his horse
halted and would not move no matter how much
the man beat him. Some laborers working in the
surrounding fields came to help. But the horse
stood as still as a statue.
Austria - Weiten 1411
Then without warning, the animal leaped to a
gallop, and the Host dropped to the ground
without anybody noticing.
A few days later, a woman passed by the spot
and saw the Host encircled in a strong light. She
picked it up and noticed that the consecrated
Host was broken in two parts, but remained
joined together by threads of bleeding flesh.
At her own expense, she built a small chapel in
thanksgiving on the spot and many pilgrims
came to the place.
Belgium - Bois-Seigner-Isaac
Starting on the Tuesday before Pentecost of the
year 1405, the Lord appeared covered with his
wounds to John of Huldenbergat. At the third
apparition, He said “Go into the Chapel of Isaac,
you will find me there.”
At the same time, a parish priest, heard a voice
instructing him to go offer the Mass there.
Belgium - Bois-Seigner-Isaac
The priest began the Mass and when he unfolded
the corporal he saw there a piece of the large
Host that had been consecrated the preceding
Tuesday.
He sought to receive the Host but it clung to the
corporal and began to bleed. The priest turned
white and John who had observed everything
comforted him by saying: “Do not fear, this
marvel comes from God.”
The blood continued to flow for 4 days and could
not be removed.
Brussels - 1369
A rich man who hated the Catholic religion had
some consecrated Hosts stolen. He was
assassinated mysteriously a few days later.
His widow, surmising it was a punishment from
Heaven, got rid of the Hosts by giving them to
friends of her husband. These friends were filled
with hatred of things Catholic.
On Good Friday 1370, the friends met and began
to slash the Hosts with knives and the Hosts began
to bleed! The desecrators were badly frightened
and entrusted the Hosts to a Catholic.
Herkenrode-Hasselt - 1317
A curious family member of a sick person, pulled
a pyx out of a priest’s bag, opened the cover and
put his hand into it. As soon as he realized that
there was a Host inside, he closed it. He put
everything back in order.
When the priest opened the pyx, the Host was
stained with blood and was in some way glued to
the linen that covered the bottom of the
container. Then the face of Christ crowned with
thorns appeared on the Host.
Croatia - Ludbreg - 1411
• During the consecration
of the wine, a priest
doubted the truth of
transubstantiation.
• The wine in the chalice
turned into Blood.
ITALY – LANCIANO 750
A monastic priest doubted whether the Body of
Our Lord was truly present in the consecrated
Host.
He celebrated Mass and when he said the words
of consecration, he saw the Host turn into Flesh
and the Wine turn into Blood.
Everything was visible to those in attendance.
ITALY – LANCIANO 750
The Flesh is still intact and the Blood is divided
into five unequal parts which together have the
exact same weight as each one does separately.
On March 4, 1971, a professor presented a
detailed report of his studies of the relics. Here
are the basic results:
ITALY – LANCIANO 750
1. The “miraculous flesh" is authentic flesh
consisting of muscular striated tissue of the
Myocardium.
2. The “miraculous Blood" is truly blood. The
chromatographic analysis indicated this with
absolute and indisputable certainty.
3. The immunological study shows with certitude
that the flesh and the blood are human, and the
immuno – ematological test shows the blood type
is AB, the same as that of the man of the Shroud.
ITALY – LANCIANO 750
ITALY – CASCIA -1330
A priest was asked to bring Communion to a sick
peasant. The priest took a consecrated Host and
placed it irreverently in the pages of his breviary
and went to the peasant.
When he arrived at the house of the sick man,
after hearing his confession, he opened the book
to take out the Host which he had placed there.
To his great surprise he found that the Host was
stained with living blood, so much as to mark
both pages between which it had been placed.
ITALY – CASCIA -1330
ITALY – Mogoro -1604
A priest was celebrating Mass and after the
consecration began distributing Communion when he
saw two men who were well-known for their
dissolute lives.
The pastor gave them Communion and as soon as
they had taken the Host in their mouth, they spit them
out on the stone floor. The two men said that the
Hosts had become hot as burning embers and that
they were burning their tongues. Then, taken by
remorse at not first having gone to Confession, they
ran away.
ITALY – Mogoro -1604
Father Salvatore went to gather the Sacred Hosts and
saw that their imprints remained in the stone as if
they had been sculpted there.
ITALY – Rome -1610
It is still possible today to see the miraculous
imprint left by the Host which fell on the steps
of the altar in the Caetani Chapel of Santa
Pudenziana Church in Rome.
The imprint on the step was left when the Host
fell from the hands of a priest, who, while
celebrating Mass was taken with doubt on the
Real Presence of Christ in the sacrament of the
Eucharist.
ITALY – Rome -1610
ITALY – Rome -1610
ITALY – SIENA -1730
• On August 14, 1730 some thieves were able to
enter San Francesco’s Church in Siena, and stole
the chalice containing 351 consecrated Hosts.
After three days, on August 17th, in the alms box
of the sanctuary of Santa Maria in Provengano, in
the dust, were found the 351 consecrated Hosts
intact. The entire population celebrated the
finding of the consecrated Hosts which were right
away taken back to the church of San Francesco
in a solemn procession.
ITALY – SIENA -1730
• With the passing of time the Hosts were not
altered. Many times, distinguished men
examined them with every means available
and the conclusions were always the same:
“The sacred Hosts are still fresh, intact,
uncorrupted, chemically pure, and do not
present any sign of alteration”.
ITALY – SIENA -1730
In the Basilica of San
Francesco in Siena, 223
consecrated Hosts are
kept intact for 276
years.
Unconsecrated hosts
were sealed a tin box
for ten years. When the
tin box was reopened,
they found only worms
and rotted fragments.
Portugal – Santarem - 1266
A young woman overcome with jealousy for her
husband, consulted a sorceress who told her to
go the church and steal a consecrated Host to
use for a love potion.
The woman stole the Host and hid it in a linen
cloth that immediately became stained with
Blood. Frightened by this, she ran home and
opened the kerchief to see the Blood was gushing
from the Host.
Portugal – Santarem - 1266
The confused woman stored the Particle in a
drawer in her bedroom. That night the drawer
began to emit brilliant rays of light which
illuminated the room as if it were daytime. The
Host bled for three consecutive days. It was then
placed in a beautiful reliquary made of beeswax.
Portugal – Santarem - 1266
In 1340, another miracle occurred. When the
priest opened the tabernacle, he found the
beeswax vase broken into many pieces: in its
place was a crystal vase containing the Blood
mixed with the wax.
Throughout the centuries, on various occasions,
the Host gave new emissions of Blood and in
some cases various images of our Lord were
seen in it.
Portugal – Santarem - 1266
Portugal – Santarem - 1266
Spain – Moncada - 1392
• In the Eucharistic Miracle of Moncada, Baby
Jesus appeared in the Sacred Host to dissipate
the doubts of a priest uncertain about the
validity of his priestly ordination.
• Every time he celebrated Mass he greatly feared
he was deceiving the faithful by distributing
unconsecrated hosts. He was also terrified that
none of the other sacraments he was performing
were valid.
• The priest ardently prayed for the Lord to give
him some sign of confirmation. He received an
answer on Christmas Day, 1392.
Spain – Moncada - 1392
• That day, a five year old girl refused to leave
the church at the end of Mass, imploring her
mother to let her remain there to play with the
beautiful child the pastor had held in his arms
during Mass. To test her further, the priest
invited her to attend Mass on the following day.
He took two hosts, but he consecrated only one
of them. Then, taking the consecrated host, the
priest asked the little girl what she could see in
his hands. She answered, “I see Baby Jesus.”
Then he lifted the unconsecrated host and asked
the same question. “I see a white little disc.”