The reading
How it began
Oswald Milser, a local lord, came to Mass at Seefeld in 1384 and insisted on receiving a large Host, the kind kept for exposition, because he would not be given the same as the peasants. At the communion the floor softened. He clutched the altar and went down until his knees were in the stone. He asked for the ordinary Host. He was pulled out. The impression in the pavement is what the church shows, and a Host was kept as well.
The day itself
The shrine became a pilgrimage of the region. The stone is the object, more than a laboratory sample. The story is a judgment on a man who thought the Sacrament had sizes.
Reading
How to read Seefeld
There is one Christ in every fragment and in the whole. That is ordinary doctrine, taught without a knight. Seefeld is the doctrine arriving as a floor.
Church status
How this sign has been received
Long veneration
Parish and diocesan cult from 1384. The stone is shown in the church of St. Oswald.
Sources
- Parish of Seefeld
- Tyrolean pilgrimage notices
For the classroom
Seefeld (1384, Seefeld, Tyrol). Grade in this encyclopedia: Long veneration. 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.
