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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast,

we are doing a tribute to all of you new First Communicants and talking about Eucharistic

miracles. We've already discussed how the Eucharist demands quite a bit of faith from us,

because there is no

tangible proof. It still tastes and feels and looks like bread and wine, but we know that it is

truly Jesus present. And at certain points in history, Jesus has given proof to this.

Yesterday, we talked about a miracle that happened in the 700s when a host

bled and tissue was found that later in the 1970s was tested and proven to be tissue from a heart.

And this host with blood and tissue on it is still available for you to see today if you

traveled to Italy. Today we're going to talk about

two more Eucharistic miracles. And for both of these miracles, even though they happened hundreds

of years ago, you can travel to the parishes where these miracles occurred and still see

proof of the miracles today. So the first miracle occurred in a little town

called Orietto, Italy. Now, once again, a priest in this parish was saying mass, and he too was

struggling to believe in the Eucharist. He just wasn't sure he really, really believed it.

And yet he was there saying mass.

And once again, during the moment of consecration,

when he said, this is my body and this is my blood,

a host began to bleed.

This time, however, the blood did not stay on the host. It actually

drips down onto a cloth on the altar. Of course, the priest fell down. He recognized the miracle,

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