The Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, when the mystery is history

Important city, rich in history, art and mystery, Lancaster, in provincia di Chieti, It is known throughout the Catholic world for the Eucharistic Miracle. The sacred relics are kept in the church of San Francesco, being Roma, and narrate a secular affair made of doubts, faith and science. It is said that, in about 750 after Christ, a Basilian monaco was celebrating mass in the church of Saints Legonziano and Domitian, It was later built on the foundations, in the second half of the 1200, the church of San Francesco. At the time of the consecration of the Host, the priest doubted the fact that in it there was the body of Christ. And here, then, the miracle: the Host changed to Flesh, in the Blood Wine.

The Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano the centuries

The mystery of Eucharistic Miracle It continued to travel the centuries with its evidence: the Host transformed into Flesh and the five lumps in which it was coagulated Blood were closed in a silver casket and ivory, inside a tent that was placed to the right of the main altar. The monstrance and chalice crystal Neapolitan school where the relics are still preserved today, They were made in 1713 while, in 1902, the monstrance was placed in a marble structure built on the high altar. Over the centuries the relics were examined several times, but further analysis, and the shocking results, They were carried out in 1970.

Eucharistic Miracle, Medical and scientific tests

It was November 1970 When, Behind the Archbishop of Lanciano and request of the provincial minister of the Conventual Abruzzo, The Vatican gave permission to submit to medical and scientific analyzes relics, entrusted to Dr. Edward Linoli, Arezzo hospital executive and anatomy teacher, istologia, Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy, and Dr. Ruggero Bertelli, professor of anatomy at the University of Siena. The studies showed, among other things, that the meat "proves belonging to the myocardium", blood "is really such a result", the flesh and blood are of human nature and belong to the blood group AB, the same as the Shroud, the shroud of Oviedo and the Paris tunic. Subsequent studies confirmed that the relics contained no traces of embalming or preservatives.

Lancaster, city ​​of "Miracles"

In 1996, inside the convent of San Francesco, It was made a museum entirely dedicated to the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. Inside it is possible to see old documents and follow a path that leads to the foundation of the convent of St. Legonziano and the catacombs of the Diocletian Bridge. A Lanciano, But, there is only one Eucharistic Miracle: in 1273, indeed, Tradition has it that a woman, After consulting a witch because she was suffering the pains of love, She began to cook a consecrated Host on the fire. The Host, But, He turned into blood and began to bleed profusely. Part of the relics was brought to Offida, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, where the remains of the Miracle are still visible at the Shrine of St. Augustine.

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