Eucharistic

Buenos Aires

Parish of Santa María, Buenos Aires·1992, 1994, 1996

Dropped and recovered Hosts, later found with a red substance, were photographed and sampled. Pathologists reported human heart tissue. The bishop at the time was Jorge Mario Bergoglio — later Pope Francis. Rome has issued no universal decree.

Fiecht

St. Georgenberg-Fiecht, Tyrol·1310

A priest doubted during Mass at the mountain monastery. The wine became blood and overflowed the chalice onto the corporal. The cloth is still the treasure of the abbey.

Seefeld

Seefeld, Tyrol·1384

A knight demanded a large Host, as if rank changed the Sacrament. The ground gave under him. He sank to the knees and repented. The stone is still shown in the church.

Herkenrode

Herkenrode, near Hasselt·1317

A priest carrying Hosts to a sick woman saw blood in the pyx. The Hosts were taken to the Cistercian abbey of Herkenrode. The cloth and the memory stayed with the nuns.

Brussels

Brussels·1370

Hosts stabbed and bloodied were carried to the cathedral and venerated for centuries. The medieval telling accused the Jewish community of Brussels. That accusation was used to kill. The Church does not ask anyone to believe it. The Hosts and the injustice are two different facts, and both are told here.

Bois-Seigneur-Isaac

Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, Brabant·1405; cult noted 1413

A corporal associated with a Eucharistic event in 1405 is still shown in a reliquary. An act of 1413 is said to have authorised the devotion. The cloth, the reliquary, and the event are three different things.

Tumaco

Tumaco, on the Colombian Pacific·31 January 1906

After the earthquake of 31 January 1906, as a tsunami runs at the island town, two Augustinian friars walk to the beach with the Blessed Sacrament. The water is said to have stopped at their feet. The town was left standing.

Ludbreg

Ludbreg·1411; papal recognition 1513

A priest doubts during Mass; the wine in the chalice takes on the appearance of blood. After a century of quiet reservation, Leo X recognizes the relic for veneration.

Casa San Pablo

Casa San Pablo, Santo Domingo·30 October 2011

During Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at Casa San Pablo in Santo Domingo, a photograph is said to show the Host in the monstrance pouring light — red and blue and gold. The Church has not issued a decree that this photograph is a miracle.

The monk of Scetis

Scetis, Wadi El Natrun·The desert fathers, about the fourth century

An old monastic story tells of a good monk who could not see that the bread of the Eucharist was more than bread. The elders prayed. He was shown a child, and then the bread again. The point of the story is the return to bread.

Douai

Douai·1254

A priest dropped a Host. When he lifted it, blood had marked the altar cloth. Douai kept the cloth and built the cult of the Precious Blood around it.

Paris, the Billettes

Paris·1290

A Host was said to have bled in a house in the Rue des Jardins in 1290, and a chapel rose on the spot. The medieval story accused a Jewish householder. That accusation is a libel. The chapel’s later life is a different history from the crime it was used to justify.

Blanot

Blanot, Burgundy·Easter 1331

On Easter morning a fragment of the Host falls onto the corporal and becomes a drop of blood that the priest cannot lift. The cloth is still kept in the parish of Blanot.

Avignon

Avignon·1433

The river flooded the Grey Penitents’ chapel and the Hosts in the tabernacle. After the water went down, the Hosts were found dry. The confraternity kept them.

Faverney

Faverney, Franche-Comté·1608

A fire destroys the Benedictine church. The monstrance is found suspended in the air, Host intact, above the ashes. For 33 hours it is said not to fall.

Saint-André, Réunion

Saint-André, Réunion·1902

Lava from the Piton de la Fournaise runs at the church of Saint-André. The parish carries the Blessed Sacrament to the flow. The lava stops at the door. The cooled rock is still there.

Augsburg

Augsburg·1194

A woman takes a consecrated Host home and keeps it in a beeswax box. Five years later it is found changed into flesh, adhering to the wax. The relic is still reserved at Holy Cross in Augsburg.

Regensburg

Regensburg·1255, and later tellings

Bavarian history places a 1255 pilgrimage among cases of Hosts lost or mishandled. A second, hostile telling turned the loss into an attack on Jewish neighbours. This page keeps the reverence and refuses the libel.

Walldürn

Walldürn·1330

A priest spills the chalice onto the corporal. The wine is said to have formed the image of the crucified Christ, ringed by eleven other faces of Christ. He hides the cloth for years, then confesses. Walldürn is still one of the great German pilgrimages of the Precious Blood.

Wilsnack

Bad Wilsnack, Brandenburg·1383

Three Hosts were found in the ashes of a burned church, marked with blood. For a century Wilsnack was one of the great pilgrimages of Europe. It was also one of the most contested.

Chirattakonam

Chirattakonam, Kerala·2001

During adoration in a Syro-Malankara parish, three red stains form on the Host, later seen as a male face. The bishop had the Host photographed and reserved.

Vilakkannur

Christ the King Church, Vilakkannur, Kerala·2013; Holy See, 2025

During Mass on 15 November 2013, a face — bearded, wounded, the Holy Face as the Church has always painted him — appears on the consecrated Host. The Host is reserved in a jeweled monstrance. In 2025 the Holy See allowed the diocese to present the event as a Eucharistic miracle.

Lanciano

Lanciano, Abruzzo·8th century (c. 750)

The most famous Eucharistic miracle in the West: a doubting monk sees the Host become Flesh and the wine Blood. The relics are still reserved — and were studied in the twentieth century. They are not the reason the Church believes in the Eucharist.

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Trani

Trani, Apulia·11th century

A woman, a non-Christian in the local telling, took a Host to test it in a pan. It bled. She brought it back. The cathedral of Trani kept the memory.

Ferrara

Ferrara·1171

On Easter Sunday 1171, at the breaking of the Host, blood spurts onto the vault above the altar of Santa Maria in Vado. The stains were long shown; the church became a shrine.

Rimini

Rimini·1227

A heretic said he would believe if his mule knelt before the Host rather than eat. The animal left the oats and knelt. St. Anthony of Padua was holding the monstrance.

Alatri

Alatri·1228

A young woman, advised to steal a Host for a love charm, wraps it in cloth and later finds it turned to flesh. Bishop and pope are notified; the relic is still at Alatri.

Florence, Sant’Ambrogio

Sant’Ambrogio, Florence·c. 1230

An old priest at the Benedictine convent is said to have left the chalice undried. In the morning a residue like blood was there. Florence has kept a chapel of the miracle, and a later Good Friday fire is a second story, not the same hour.

Saint Clare and the soldiers

San Damiano, Assisi·September 1240

Saracen troops in the service of Frederick II come up to San Damiano. Clare, ill, has the Eucharist carried to the door in the silver box the monastery used. The attackers do not break in. Later paintings put a monstrance in her hands. The early text says a box.

Bolsena–Orvieto

Bolsena, then Orvieto·1263

A Bohemian priest, doubting the Real Presence, sees the Host bleed onto the corporal. Urban IV, then at Orvieto, is shown the linen — and Corpus Christi enters the calendar of the whole Church.

Offida

Lanciano, then Offida·1273

Another stolen Host, another bleeding: a woman of Lanciano hides the Sacrament in a stable wall. Blood soaks the tiles. Franciscans later carry the relic to Offida.

Gruaro

Gruaro, then Valvasone·1294

A priest spilled the chalice. The wine on the corporal took the shape of a cross and of a face. The cloth was later kept at Valvasone.

Cascia

Siena, then Cascia·1330

A priest takes Communion to a sick man, slips the Host unworthily into his breviary, and later finds it bleeding through the pages. The stained leaf is kept by the Augustinians of Cascia.

Macerata

Macerata·25 April 1356

A priest doubted as he consecrated. Blood issued from the Host onto the corporal. The cloth is kept in the cathedral.

Turin, 1453

Turin·6 June 1453

A thief stole a monstrance from the church in Exilles. At Turin the Host rose out of the sack and stayed in the air until the bishop came. The city built the church of Corpus Domini on the spot.

Volterra

Volterra·1472

During Volterra’s war with Florence in 1472, a soldier is said to have stolen a ciborium, thrown the Hosts aside, and then repented when they did not behave as bread. The diocese keeps the memory. The vessel and the Sacrament are not the same object.

The Hosts of Siena

Siena·1730 – present

Consecrated Hosts stolen from St. Francis in Siena are recovered from a poor-box, dusty and filthy — and remain intact, without corruption, for centuries. They are still reserved and occasionally tasted for decay.

Rosano

Rosano, Tuscany·1948

In the Benedictine monastery of Rosano a Host was seen to change during adoration. The nuns and the diocese kept a file. It is a modern case, and it is not Lanciano.

San Mauro La Bruca

San Mauro La Bruca·1969; adoration decreed 1970

After a theft, a child is said to have found discarded Hosts. The diocese records their recovery and, in 1970, a decree of perpetual adoration. That decree is about worship. It is not a laboratory result.

Morne-Rouge

Morne-Rouge, Martinique·8 May 1902

As Montagne Pelée was about to destroy Saint-Pierre, the parish of Morne-Rouge carried the Blessed Sacrament to the edge of the lava. The flow stopped at the place where the priest blessed it.

Tixtla

Tixtla, Guerrero·2006

During a retreat Mass, a Host in a ciborium is seen to bleed. Studies commissioned by the bishop reported living blood and heart tissue. The relic is reserved in the parish.

Meerssen

Meerssen, Limburg·Thirteenth-century telling; the Host later lost

A thirteenth-century account says the chalice at Mass lacked the water, and that a sign followed. A later tale adds a farmer and a fire. The medieval object is gone. The basilica of the Blessed Sacrament is not.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam·15 March 1345

A dying man received Viaticum and vomited. The Host was thrown on the fire and did not burn. Amsterdam has walked the Silent Walk in memory of it ever since the devotion was allowed back.

Boxmeer

Boxmeer, North Brabant·about 1400

A priest who doubted is said to have seen the wine rise in the chalice until he took back the doubt, leaving a red mark on the corporal. Boxmeer still walks in memory of that cloth. The mark is not a modern blood study.

Eten

Eten, Lambayeque·1649

During Mass in the parish of Eten the Child was seen in the Host, more than once, by the town. The parish has kept the record and the monstrance.

Głotowo

Głotowo, Warmia·Medieval; sanctuary later

A Host hidden for safety is said to have been found when oxen knelt at the plough. The archdiocese keeps a real sanctuary of the Blessed Sacrament and of the Passion. The kneeling oxen are a medieval motif, and the page says so.

Kraków, Corpus Christi

Kazimierz, Kraków·Parish older than the legend of 1345

A popular tale says a Host found in 1345 caused Casimir the Great to found the Corpus Christi church. The building’s own dates begin before 1341. The parish is real. The founding miracle, told that way, cannot be.

Poznań

Poznań·Medieval shrine; the accusation withdrawn

Poznań has a church of Corpus Christi and an old story of Hosts found. The archdiocese says the tale that blamed Jews was never confirmed, and that the medieval sources support a found Host and a shrine — not a charge against a people.

Sokółka

Sokółka·2008

A dropped Host, placed in water, develops a red stain. Independent pathologists report that the stain is heart muscle fused with the bread in a way they cannot explain. The Archbishop of Białystok authorized veneration.

Legnica

Legnica·2013

Another dropped Host, another red stain, another finding of heart muscle. In 2016 the Bishop of Legnica announced the Holy See’s recommendation that the relic be venerated.

Santarém

Santarém·c. 1247

A woman, desperate to recover her husband’s love, takes a consecrated Host from Mass to a sorceress. The Host bleeds. She hides it, then surrenders it. It is still reserved in Santarém.

Ivorra

Ivorra, Catalonia·About 1010

A priest doubted the consecration. The wine became blood and stained the corporal and the stone. The cloths are still the shrine of the parish.

Daroca

Daroca, Aragon·1239

In a battle near the walls, priests had consecrated. The Hosts bled onto the corporals. Daroca has carried those cloths in procession ever since.

O Cebreiro

O Cebreiro, Galicia·About 1300

In a snowstorm a peasant came to Mass. The priest doubted it was worth consecrating for one man. The Host became flesh and the wine blood. The chalice and paten are still in the church on the pass.

Alboraya

Alboraya, by Valencia·Told as 1348

A priest carrying Viaticum to the dying is said to have lost the Hosts in the water, and fish are said to have held them up. The hermitage of the Peixets is the memory made into a chapel. The number of fish is not the doctrine.

Alcalá

Alcalá de Henares·1597

Host stolen from a church in Alcalá were recovered and kept. They did not corrupt. The Jesuits and then the town preserved them as the Santos Corporales.

Ettiswil

Ettiswil, Lucerne·1447

A stolen Host, thrown into a field, marked the place. A chapel rose. Ettiswil’s pilgrimage of the Blessed Sacrament comes from that theft.

The Eucharist

Upper Room, Jerusalem — and every altar since·from the Last Supper

The one Catholic “miracle” that happens quietly, daily, without spectacle: bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ. Spectacular Host-wonders are footnotes to this.

The Host of Betania

Finca Betania, near Cúa·8 December 1991

At midnight Mass on the Immaculate Conception, Father Luis Otty Ossa Aristizábal saw a piece of the Host bleed on the paten. The bishop is reported to have accepted the bleeding. A published Roman decree is not the same thing, and this page does not invent one.