Eucharistic Miracle!
The Miracle of Lanciano, Italy
The Miracle occurred when a priest-monk who suffered from recurrent doubts regarding transubstantiation (the change of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ), was celebrating the Mass. At the moment when he had spoken the solemn words of Consecration, the host was changed into a circle of flesh, and the wine was transformed into visible blood.
Since then, throughout the centuries, many scientific examinations of the flesh and blood were undertaken. The most recent scientific verification took place in 1970 by Professor Doctor Oroardo Linoli. The flesh was identified as striated muscular tissue of the myocardium (heart wall), having no trace whatsoever of any materials or agents used for the preservation of the flesh. Both the flesh and the sample of blood were found to be of human origin, emphatically excluding the possibility that it was from an animal species. The blood and the flesh were found to... belong to the same blood type, AB.
Professor Linoli’s findings conclusively excluded the possibility of a fraud perpetrated centuries ago. In fact, he maintained that only a hand experienced in anatomic dissention could have obtained from a hollow internal organ, the heart, such an expert cut, made tangentially – that is, a round cut, thick on the outer edges, and lessening gradually and uniformly into nothingness in the central area. He concluded that the flesh and blood were not damaged, although they had been exposed to the influences of physical, atmospheric and biological agents.
The flesh and blood is still kept in the Church of St. Francis in Lanciano, Italy where visitors can gaze at this amazing Eucharistic miracle.
Source:
“Eucharistic Miracles and Eucharistic Phenomena in the Lives of the Saints" by Joan Carroll Cruz, Tan Books and Publishers.
The Miracle occurred when a priest-monk who suffered from recurrent doubts regarding transubstantiation (the change of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ), was celebrating the Mass. At the moment when he had spoken the solemn words of Consecration, the host was changed into a circle of flesh, and the wine was transformed into visible blood.
Since then, throughout the centuries, many scientific examinations of the flesh and blood were undertaken. The most recent scientific verification took place in 1970 by Professor Doctor Oroardo Linoli. The flesh was identified as striated muscular tissue of the myocardium (heart wall), having no trace whatsoever of any materials or agents used for the preservation of the flesh. Both the flesh and the sample of blood were found to be of human origin, emphatically excluding the possibility that it was from an animal species. The blood and the flesh were found to... belong to the same blood type, AB.
Professor Linoli’s findings conclusively excluded the possibility of a fraud perpetrated centuries ago. In fact, he maintained that only a hand experienced in anatomic dissention could have obtained from a hollow internal organ, the heart, such an expert cut, made tangentially – that is, a round cut, thick on the outer edges, and lessening gradually and uniformly into nothingness in the central area. He concluded that the flesh and blood were not damaged, although they had been exposed to the influences of physical, atmospheric and biological agents.
The flesh and blood is still kept in the Church of St. Francis in Lanciano, Italy where visitors can gaze at this amazing Eucharistic miracle.
Source:
“Eucharistic Miracles and Eucharistic Phenomena in the Lives of the Saints" by Joan Carroll Cruz, Tan Books and Publishers.
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