The reading
How it began
The tradition of Ivorra, set in the first years of the eleventh century, names a priest, Bernat Oliver, who was saying the words and did not believe them. Blood issued from the chalice onto the linen and the altar. He went to the bishop of Vic. The linens were kept.
The day itself
The parish still shows them. The cult is among the oldest in the Catalan list. There is no medieval laboratory and no modern one. There is a village that has ordered its feast around those cloths for a thousand years, which is a fact even if a historian reserves judgment on the hour itself.
Reading
How to read Ivorra
Ivorra is early. It is worth saying so, because the Church was already telling this kind of story — a priest, a doubt, a cloth — centuries before Corpus Christi was a universal feast.
Church status
How this sign has been received
Long veneration
Parish cult received by the bishops of Vic. Ancient, not a modern decree.
Sources
- Parish of Ivorra
- Diocese of Vic, traditional notices
For the classroom
Ivorra (About 1010, Ivorra, Catalonia). Grade in this encyclopedia: Long veneration. 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.
