The Eucharistic Miracle of Trani

MIRACOLI—panneaux 12/05/06 14 : 33 Page 5 A non-Christian woman who did not believe the true Catholic dogma of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, aided by some of her Christian friends, managed to steal a consecrated Host during the celebration of a Sacred Mass. The woman, as if daring God, put the consecrated Host into a frying pan of oil, Suddenly the Host spilled out masses of Blood, which poured to the floor and out the door year one thousand, is housed in the Cathe- dral of Holy Mary of the Assumption. There are numerous documents which retell this miracle; among them are Eucharistic mono- grams, which are on the ancient streets of the work, "L'lnamorato di Gesu Cristo" (1625), an accurate account of the unfolding of the facts: "Pretending to be Christian, the woman received Communion with the others.

and took the consecrated Host from her mouth and transfer- red the Holy Eucharist to a handkerchief. Once home she wanted to experiment with whether or not the Blessed Sacrament was bread and put the consecrated Host into a heated frying pan filled with oil. Upon contact with the boiling oil, the consecrated Host miraculously became Bloody "TRANI E' FORTUNÅTA PERCHE' PER iiiiiid cursed woman and her house.

Terrorized, the woman began to scream. and the neighbors ran over to find out the reasons behind her cries... was immediately infor- med of the events d he ordered the return of the consecrated Host to the church. That same Cistercian Abbot Ferdinando Ughelli (1670), in his well-known encyclopedic work "Italia Sacra", wrote in a notation of his seventh volume: "In T rani a sacred Host was fried to the dismay of our Faith..

o, the true Flesh and Blood of Christ was unveiled in the unleavened Bread which fell to the ground". An indirect confirmation to this miracle is also found in the affirmation of St. Pio from Pietreclina, which exclaimed: "T rani is fortunate to have been bathed by the Blood of Christ twice", the first re- ference being to this miracle and the later to the miracle of the Colonna Crucifix from which an abundant stream of blood flowed from Jesus' nose.

Thanks to the generosity of the nobleman Ottavian Campitelli, the house of the woman was converted into a chapel in 1706. In 1616 the relic of the Host was transferred to an antique silver shrine donated by Fabrizio de Cunio. Throughout various eras, many tests were perfor- med on this sacred relic and verified, the last one took place in 1924 at the Inter-diocesan Euchari- stic Congress headed by Monsignor Giuseppe Maria Leo.