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Physician Tells of Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano

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Physician Tells of Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano

Edoardo Linoli Verified Authenticity of the Phenomenon

ROME, 5 MAY 2005 (ZENIT)

Dr. Edoardo Linoli says he held real cardiac tissue in his hands, when some years ago he analyzed the relics of the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano, Italy.

The phenomenon dates back to the eighth century. A Basilian monk, who had doubts about the real presence of Christ in the sacred species, was offering Mass, in a church dedicated to St. Legontian in the town of Lanciano.

When he pronounced the words of the consecration, the host was miraculously changed into physical flesh and the wine into physical blood.

Later the blood coagulated and the flesh remained the same. These relics were kept in the cathedral.

Linoli, a professor of anatomy and pathological histology, and of chemistry and clinical microscopy, and former head of the Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy at the Hospital of Arezzo, is the only doctor who has analyzed the relics of the miracle of

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Several years ago my sister and I stood in our parents’ kitchen, eyes locked in serious debate. We were debating the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

At the time, I was a cradle Catholic turned skeptic. She was a campus missionary for Catholic Christian Outreach.

My faith in the Eucharist and most other Catholic teachings had long since turned to skepticism—and the “real presence” was at the top of the list.

First, it seemed obvious that the consecration effected no change to the bread and wine—the bread remained as bread, and the wine remained as wine. There was clearly no physical change which left me unconvinced.

Second, the idea of actually consuming the flesh and blood of Jesus bodily seemed to me a strange religious form of cannibalism.

My sister listened patiently to my objections and skeptical musings, and when she spoke her intense faith in the Real Presence shone through. This was the first time I had ever heard of the Sacrament of the Eucharist as the “source and summit of the Christian life” (CCC 1324); and although I

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Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano

Eighth century Eucharistic miracle according to Catholic tradition

The Miracle of Lanciano is a Eucharistic miracle said to have occurred in the eighth century in the city of Lanciano, Italy. According to tradition, a Basilianmonk who had doubts about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist found, when he said the words of consecration at Mass, that the bread and wine changed into flesh and blood. The Catholic Church officially recognizes this miracle as authentic.^[1]

The incident is similar to the tradition known as the Mass of Saint Gregory, first recorded in the 8th century by Paul the Deacon.

The Miracle of Lanciano, together with the Eucharistic miracle of Santarém, in Portugal, is considered among the most important.^[2]

History of the miracle

The first known reports of the event date to 1574 and do not specify the exact year in which it would have occurred, but some believe that certain historical circumstances allow it to be placed chronologically eight centuries earlier, between 730 and 750. The