The Eucharistic Miracle of Paris

MIRACLES—France Germany panels 11/02/08 10 : 33 Page 2 During Easter of 1290 a non-believer who harbored animosity toward the Faith and who did not believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist was able to gain possession of a consecrated Host with the intent to desecrate the Holy Eucharist, He stabbed the Host and threw the Blessed Sacrament into boiling water, The Host miraculously came out of the water right in front of the man, who was distressed by this, And so he put the Host in the basin of a pious woman, The woman immediately brought the Host to her pastor, here are numerous documents that testify to the events of this miracle. The Italian historian Giovanni Villani in Book VII, Chapter 136, of his celebrated History of Florence reports all the principal facts of the miracle. A deep study of the sources was done by Mrs.

Moreau-Rendu in a work entitled. A Paris, Rue des Jardins published in 1954 with a preface by Bishop Touzé who was the Auxiliary Bishop of Paris. The author, after a detailed list of the docu- ments, placed them under rigorous examination and declared with confidence the authenticity of the facts.

The best known version of the story is found in the History of the Church ofParis written by the French archbishop, Archbishop Rupp, who tells of the Eucharistic miracle of Paris in the pages dedicated to the episcopate of Simon Matifas of Busay who held the See of St. Denis FRANCE, 1290 of Saint-Jean. During the French Revolution the Catholic Faith and did not believe in the Real Precious Relic was lost without a trace." Here are some Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, was other equally significant facts: The ecclesiastical able to gain possession of a consecrated Host.

authorities, the people and the king decided to transform the home of the one who desecrated the the Host with a knife Sacred Host into a chapel in which the Holy and the Host began to bleed. The Blood filled Eucharist would be kept; the confiscation of the the container in which he had placed the Host. house of Jonathas, called "The House of Miracles" Panic-stricken, the man decided to throw the Blessed by King Phillip the Fair which was registered in a Sacrament into the fire, but the Host miraculously bill of sale from 1291; the transformation of the house arose from the fire.

Desperate, he threw the Eucharist into an oratory after the Bull that was obtained into boiling water and the Host arose from the from Pope Boniface VIII; the name of the "Rue water, hovering in mid-air, and then taking the du Dieu bouilli" (The Street of God-boiled) given form of a crucifix. Finally, he deposited the Holy by the people of Paris to the "Rue des Jardins"; the Eucharist in the bowl of a parishioner of Saint- Eucharistic celebration in the Chapel des Billettes who brought the Blessed Sacrament of the Department of the Reparation on the to her parish priest. Over the centuries, the Sacred second Sundays of Advent and Lent.

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