Eucharistic Miracle of San Juan, Honduras, 2022.       The news this week informs us of a newly recognized Eucharistic Miracle which happened only last year. San Juan is an agricultural town of about 1000 persons in the highlands of western Honduras, in the county (“department”) of Intibucá. The area has natural beauties of waterfalls, creeks, cloud forests, canyons, and a nearby biological preserve. The principal crop is coffee. In the San Juan municipality lies the small community of El Espinal, which has about 60 families scattered along the “spine” of the mountains. In El Espinal is a small Chapel of St. James the Apostle, but they have no regular priest.       On Thursday, June 9, 2022, at 5:00 PM local time, about 15 families came together for a Communion Service led by José Elmer Benítez Machado, a lay Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion. Eucharistic Hosts previously consecrated by a priest at Mass are kept securely in a locked container (“Tabernacle”). During the service,

Eucharistic Miracle of Stich, West Germany, 1970.       In these articles on Eucharistic miracles, we have now looked at 10 different miracles where God changes the bread and/or wine, along with the “accidents” (sight, touch, taste) into human flesh and blood. (Normally the “accidents” remain that of bread and wine and do not change, presumably for human sensibilities.) In those analyzed by modern scientific methods, all were shown to be the human heart muscle and type AB blood of a person suffering greatly.       Today’s Eucharistic miracle is a bit different. At the time of the consecration at Mass, Blood appeared on the cloths on the altar, but completely separate from the bread and wine which were being consecrated into Christ’s Body and Blood.       Stitch is a small hamlet located in what was then (1970) called West Germany, in Bavaria, near the Swiss border. On June 9, during Mass, at the time of the consecration of the bread, the priest – a visiting priest from Switzerland that

  Eucharistic Miracle of Alatri, Italy, 1228.       The circumstances for this Eucharistic Miracle begin with a young girl infatuated with a young man who had many admirers, and sought the means to acquire his affection by a love potion wickedly promised her by a woman who required the young girl to bring her a consecrated Host from the Catholic Mass. (While many may doubt the Lord’s real presence in the Eucharist, the devil knows the truth.)       Almost immediately the young girl’s conscience was troubled, and instead of bringing the Eucharistic Host to the woman for the potent, she placed it in a small linen pouch and hid it in her family’s home. 48 hours later, the young girl looked into the linen pouch and found the Host no longer had the appearance of bread but now looked like living flesh.       Her sobs and contrite tears attracted her family. They attracted the neighbors. Soon the house was filled with people from all over the city wanting to see the miracle. Finally, the pari

Eucharistic Miracle of America?       In light of this week’s celebration of America’s Independence Day on July 4 th , we did some research to try to discover whether there had been any documented Eucharistic Miracles in the United States. We did not find any which have been formally approved as Eucharistic Miracles, but we did find some recent occurrences worth noting.       We’ve seen in past articles on Eucharistic Miracles that after a Host is consecrated by a Catholic Priest and becomes the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus, and if it cannot be consumed (e.g., accidentally dropped on the floor and picked up dirt, or handled by someone who may be contagions), the proper way to dispose of the Host is to place It in a container of water. Ordinarily, the Host will dissolve within a few days.       In this first story, a custodian at St. Patrick’s Church in Rochelle, Illinois, found a consecrated Host, and the deacon placed It in a container of water on May 1, 2015. Four days later, the