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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, May 21st, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast,

we are talking about Eucharistic miracles. Yesterday we talked about how belief in the

Eucharist is a little bit crazy. We are asked to believe without any tangible proof. However, at many points

in history, God has given us some proof through Eucharistic miracles. Today, we are going to talk

about the first Eucharistic miracle we're talking about this week. And this one happened in the

seven hundredths. So a long, long time ago,

over a thousand years ago, a long time ago. And it happened in the city of Lonsiano, Italy.

Now, at that time, there was a priest in a parish, and he was struggling to believe that the

Eucharist was really the body and blood of Jesus Christ. He believed, but he was struggling.

Now, as he was saying the prayers of consecration, and as he was saying the very words,

this is my body and this is my blood. As he was

saying those words, the host in his hand began to bleed. It began to bleed quite a bit. And in fact,

not only blood appeared, but tissue. Now, the priest was amazed. He obviously had a huge conversion and no

longer doubted the true presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, but also everyone that was

there was amazed. And here's the thing, my friends. They began to fall down and venerate this host that is bleeding

and has tissue coming out of it. That host was preserved. And guess what? Even though this was

over a thousand years ago, over, I mean, over a thousand years ago, even though it happened so

long ago, this host is still there.

This host is preserved and on display in the parish where this miracle occurred.

So it has endured all of these over a thousand years.

It has not disintegrated and the blood and tissue are still present.

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