The reading
1. What the archdiocese corrects
A long legend said three Hosts were desecrated and then found. Later inscriptions kept that legend, including a charge against Jewish neighbours. The Archdiocese of Poznań has said the accusation was not confirmed, and that it belongs with a class of antisemitic stories the Church does not teach. What the medieval record does support is simpler: a Host was found, and a shrine was made.
2. Why the correction is part of the miracle file
A Eucharistic sign that needs a slander in order to be interesting is not a sign the faithful should repeat. The church still stands. The Blessed Sacrament is still the reason for the name Corpus Christi. The people once accused are not a prop in the story. This page will not retell the accusation as if it were the miracle.
3. The one sentence
Poznań’s shrine remembers a found Host; the archdiocese rejects the legend that turned that memory into an attack on Jews.
Reading
How to read Poznań
Reverence for the Sacrament and contempt for a neighbour cannot be the same devotion. The first may stay. The second has to go.
Pray this
Prayers that sit with the story
Church status
How this sign has been received
Long veneration
Archdiocesan correction: the antisemitic compilation is not the Church’s account. The shrine of a found Host remains.
Sources
- Archdiocese of Poznań, on the received legend
- Church of Corpus Christi, Poznań
For the classroom
Poznań (Medieval shrine; the accusation withdrawn, Poznań). Grade in this encyclopedia: Long veneration. 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.
