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Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano

Tradition says that around 750 a doubting monk at Lanciano saw the host turn into flesh and the wine into blood, relics still shown in the church of San Francesco.

750 CE · 42.23, 14.39 · status: legend

The sceptical view

The earliest documents are much later; a 1970s analysis by Odoardo Linoli was not independently replicated.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano
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