AN INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES EXHIBITION
DESIGNED AND CREATED BY CARLO ACUTIS, THE SERVANT OF GOD

What is a Eucharistic Miracle?
Eucharistic miracles consist of unexplainable phenomena occurring after transubstantiation such as a host visibly transforming into human tissue, a host surviving fire, a host bleeding or the Eucharist alone providing sustenance to a human being for a prolonged period of time. In order to be considered a Eucharistic miracle, the event is investigated by a special task force before deciding it is worthy of belief.

Our parish hosted this exhibition in April of 2019.  In order to continue to benefit from this exhibition, links to the International Eucharistic Miracles of the World website are given below.  The first link, Full List of Eucharistic Miracles of the World, connects to their Miracles List web page.  One may then click on the name of any miracle to get a full description.  Subsequent links given below go directly to the full descriptions of miracles that we deem to be illustrative and especially important.  The miracles of Lanciano, Italy and Santarem, Potugul  and Tixtla, Mexico and Buenos Aires, Argentina have been subjected to careful scientific scrutiny.  Pope Francis, while archbishop of Buenos Aires oversaw the investigation of that miracle. The miracle of Bolsena, Italy convinced Pope Urban IV in 1264 to extend the feast of Corpus Christi to the universal Church and prompted St. Thomas Aquinas to write the beautiful hymn, Tantum Ergo, which is often sung at Eucharistic Adoration.  Many miraculous cures occur during Eucharitic processions at Lourdes, France. Teresa Neumann, who had recieved the stigmata at age 26 and lived in Nazi Germany, lived only on the Eucharist for her last 36 years.  She died in 1962. The final link, Eucharistic Miracles: Limits and Positive Aspects, highlights certain limits that should be kept in mind in a catechesis on Eucharistic miracles and then points out the positive aspects these miracles can offer to such a catechesis.