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to mystic institute.org. So this is the third of our talks, and we're finally getting to the heart

of the matter. So my talk right now is Aquinas, the Word Smith, and then I believe your talk is going to be Aquinas the DJ.

So we'll be looking more at the poetry of St. Thomas Aquinas as in the actual words in

of themselves, right? But before, I think I'd be a little remiss if I didn't mention the

one thing that was not in your talk on last night,

which is the miracle of Bolsena.

So when I take students to Italy, I like to go to Orvieto, and there's a chapel there,

the chapel of the corporal, which has in it, in 1263, there was a Polish priest coming down into the Holy Land, and he had a bit of a

problem with understanding what is really happening in the Eucharist and asked our Lord if he could

have just a little bit of help, right? And I'm really abridging this one, right?

But essentially what happens is that the host, as he's offering the mast,

starts to bleed on the corporal.

The corporal is this garment, this piece of cloth that's laid on top of the altar, the frescoes that you see in the background of the picture here are actually in the chapel, the corporal.

And so the frescoes go setting by setting to tell the story of this priest who goes, you know, is completely weirded out by what's happening, goes and finds the Pope who's

in Orvieto at the time. The Pope then brings a whole bunch of people with him to go figure out

what's going on. He sees and beholds this corporal with the bloodstains on it. There are a number

of investigators, again, like testing true things, just like Juliana, right?

The testing of all of this is conducted. And, you know, it's one of these things that's not mentioned explicitly in the adoption of the Feast of Corpus Christi.

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