This week, the Catholic Church celebrates Jesus Eucharist in the Solemnity of Corpus Christireminding us that Jesus is alive and present in the sacrament of the Eucharist.
Show this have been the different Eucharistic miracles that throughout history followed in different countries as a supernatural sign that highlights the presence of God and contributes to strengthening faith.
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Known as the “Cybercapostol of the Eucharist” for his special devotion to Jesus Sacramented, Blessed Carlo Acutis created in the early 2000s a website called “Miracolie Eucharistici” (Eucharistic Milagros) in which he details a list of countries where these miracles occurred.
Among them, he mentions five Latin American countries.
1. Argentina
According to the websitethree Eucharistic miracles occurred in the parish of Santa María, City of Buenos Aires 1992, 1994 and 1996.
On May 1, 1992, after Mass, “host fragments consecrated in the body” were found. Following the proper procedure, they were placed in a container with water in the tabernacle, but did not dissolve. On May 8, when opening the tabernacle, it was seen that “they had dyed a reddish color.” Two days later, “small drops of blood in the patenas” of communion were found.
On July 24, 1994, “while the Minister of the Eucharist took the pixide of the Tabernacle, saw a drop of blood that flowed through the wall.” On August 15, 1996, at the Mass of the Assumption, a consecrated host that fell to the ground was placed in a container with water to dissolve, but on August 26, it was observed that it had been transformed into blood.
In 1999, then Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio (today Pope Francis) asked Professor Ricardo Castañon Gómez to investigate what happened in 1996. In 2000, a fabric expert found that the samples had human skin and white blood cells, and three years later, he said he was of an inflamed heart, which means that the person “must have suffered a lot.”
In 2005, a scientist at Columbia said it was from the left ventricle, and labeled it as a living fabric of a person suffering. Gómez concluded that Christ “wanted to show us his myocardium, which is the muscle that gives life to the whole heart, as the Eucharist does with the Church.
“And why the left ventricle? Because there comes the purified blood and Jesus is the one who purifies his church of his sins,” says the website.
2. Colombia
This Eucharistic miracle occurred in Tumaco, during the tsunami that devastated the coast of the Pacific in 1906, and managed to save the lives of the inhabitants of the town.
According to the websiteFr. Bernardino García de la Concepción reported that an earthquake hit the territory for almost 10 minutes, and the people asked the local pastor, Fr. Gerardo Larrondo, to make a procession with the Blessed Sacrament.
After a wave covered the port and began to destroy everything in its path, Fr. Gerardo, frightened, consumed all consecrated hosts and retained only one. Then, he cried to God to have mercy and summoned the people to accompany him to the beach, said Fr. Garcia.
The parish priest went down to the sea coast with custody in his hand and when the wave was yet, he raised the consecrated host “with a firm hand and with the heart full of faith” and “he drew the sign of the cross.” Then, the town shouted moved: “Milagro, miracle”, because the wave, “as if it had been stopped by an invisible and superior force,” he began to go back.
3. Mexico
On October 12, 2013, the bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Mons. Alejo Zavala Castro, announced in a pastoral letter the official recognition of the Church to a Eucharistic miracle occurred on October 21, 2006, in the town of Tixtla.
“This manifestation leads us to a wonderful sign of God’s love that confirms the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist,” the bishop wrote in his letter.
According to him websitethe day the miracle occurred, it was observed that from a host, during a local mass, “a reddish substance” flowed. Then Mons. Zavala would convene a commission to carry out the relevant investigations.
Between 2009 and 2012, various studies were carried out on the consecrated form, resulting in that “reddish substance” was actually blood of the AB type, in which there was hemoglobin and DNA of human origin.
4. Peru
This Eucharistic miracle occurred on June 2, 1649 in Eten, during the sentence of the eve and the exhibition of the Blessed Sacrament in honor of the Corpus Christi party.
According to the websitewhen “the Franciscan friar Jerome de Silva Manrique was reserving custody in the tabernacle”, all the faithful present saw that “a glowing face of a child” with “brown curls” appeared in the host.
Fray Marco López, Superior of the Convent of Chiclayo, said that on July 22 of that year, during the exhibition of the Blessed Sacrament, “the divine Child Jesus” reappeared in the host. According to witnesses, “in the host three small white hearts appeared, united with each other, symbolizing the three people of the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” he said.
This time they saw him dressed in a shirt “according to the use of the Indians” and with “a purple robe.” As explained by the event, which lasted 15 minutes, the Infant Jesus “wanted to identify with the inhabitants Mochica de Eten” and “demonstrate their love.”
5. Venezuela
This Eucharistic miracle occurred at a Mass celebrated December 8, 1991 in Bethanywhen a priest saw during the consecration that the host began to bleed.
According to him websiteFr. Otty Ossa Aristizábal was celebrating Mass in the Marian Sanctuary of Fina de Bethania, in Cúa, when, after splitting the Magna host, he saw that in La Patena one of the pieces “had a red spot and a red substance began to sprout from it, similar to the way the blood springs from a wound.”
Fr. Aristizábal said that he kept the host in the sacristy and that the next day he saw that the host was still bleeding, but “only on one side of the particle”, without staining “the rest of the Eucharistic species.” The website pointed out that the faithful who were in Mass saw the event.
The bishop of the Teques, Mons. Pío Bello Ricardo, ordered to investigate the event and the results confirmed that the blood was not from the priest, but that it was of a positive AB type, such as the one found in the Santa de Turin sheet and in the host of the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano, he said.
The website said that “many prodigious events” related to the miracle occurred. Among them, the one of November 12, 1998 stands out, when a young man who pilgated Bethany saw for about “30 seconds” that the host of the miracle “was on fire and that there was a heart that was beating that bleed in the center”, and said he managed to film part of the event.
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