Eucharistic Miracle of

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ST. PETER DAMIAN
ITALY, ELEVENTH CENTURY

A sorceress asked a woman n his Opuscul. XXXIV; Patrol. Lat.,

tom. CXLV. col. 573, St. Peter Damian,
to bring her a consecrated a Doctor of the Church, describes an
important Eucharistic miracle, of which he was a
Host, she goes to Mass and direct witness. We present the Italian translation
during Communion she of the episode as the Saint himself describes it:
“This is a Eucharistic event of great importance.
managed to hide a Host in It took place in 1050. Giving in to a horrible
her handkerchief. The priest St. Peter Damian
temptation, a woman was about to take the
Eucharistic Bread home to use it for sorcery. But
noticed what happened and a priest noticed what she had done and ran after
her, taking away from her the Host she had sacri-
ran after the woman and legiously stolen. Then he unfolded the white
ordered her to show him what linen cloth in which the sacred Host had been
wrapped and found that it had been transformed
she was hiding. The woman in such a way that half of it had become visibly
the Body of Christ, while the other half preserved
opens the handkerchief and to the normal look of a Host. With such a clear
their surprise they see that half testimony, God wanted to win over unbelievers
and heretics who refused to accept the Real
of the stolen Particle had been Presence of the Eucharistic mystery: in one half of
transformed into Flesh and the the consecrated bread the Body of Christ was
visible, while in the other the natural form, thus
other half looked like bread. highlighting the reality of the sacramental tran-
Hermitage of Fonte Avellana, where St. Peter Damian lived substantiation taking place at the consecration.”

Eucharistic Miracle of

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SCALA
ITALY, 1732

In 1732 for more than three he venerable Sister Maria Celeste

Crostarosa founded the Monastery of
consecutive months there the Most Holy Redeemer together with
appeared signs of our Lord’s St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori. Every Thursday the
Most Blessed Sacrament was exposed for public
Passion in the consecrated adoration in the Monastery. From September 11,
1732, for three consecutive months, during the
Hosts. This marvelous event solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the
took place during exposition Venerable Maria Celeste Interior of the monastery
signs of the Passion of Christ appeared in the Host
Crostarossa church contained in the monstrance. All this can be
of the Most Holy Sacrament confirmed not only by the nuns and the people
but also by Bishop Santoro of Scala and by the
in the monastery of the Most Bishop of Castellamare. The apparition occurred
Holy Redeemer of Scala in also in the presence of St. Alphonsus Maria
Liguori. Bishop Santoro wrote a letter to Bishop
the presence of numerous Simonetti, Apostolic Nuncio of Naples, in which
testimonies among whom was he described all the details related to the visions
that took place in the Sacred Host that had been
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori, exposed. In turn, the Nuncio forwarded the letter
to Cardinal Barbieri, then Secretary of State.
the great Doctor of the Church. Monstrance of the miracle
Monastery of the Most
Holy Redeemer, Scala

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