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Eucharistic miracles that defy science

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 Eucharistic miracles that defy science Credit: St Junipero Serra According to Catholic Catechism, CCC 1376: The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation ." Hard for non-believers to wrap their heads around, so what about the instances where the change was literal??   “ Eucharistic miracle " refers to extraordinary empirical signs of Jesus’ presence in the Eucharist, such as bleeding hosts or the transmutation of a consecrated host...