A young lady loved a young man very much, but he was not as committed as she was. So, to get the full attention of her boyfriend she went to a sorceress for guidance. The sorceress told her to bring a Consecrated Host to her. The sorceress promised to make up a love potion. The young lady was bringing the Host home in a handkerchief when she realized the Host was getting heavier and heavier. Then she regretted what she had done. She ran home and put the Host in a bread bin.
A few days later she went to get the Host, but it had turned into Flesh. She got the priest to come. He got the bleeding Host-turned-Flesh and brought it to the Church.
People heard what happened and they came to the Church to pray. The local Bishop and Pope Gregory IX acknowledged that a miracle had taken place. This miracle has extensive documentation.
The miraculous Flesh can be seen today 800 years later in a monstrance in Alatri, Italy.
This miracle shows us:
Jesus keeps His promises that He would give us His Flesh to eat and His Blood to drink (John 6:48-59).
At every Mass, for the last 2,000 years, when the priest says the words of consecration (this is My Body and this is My Blood) the bread and wine are changed into the Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity of Jesus Christ. All Christians believed this miracle happens at Mass for the first 1,500 years until the Protestant Reformation.
The red blood cells in fresh blood break down over time (24 to 48 hours) without refrigeration.
Information from: CD by Fr. John Noone, Miracles of the Eucharist And The Real Presence
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