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Legnica, Poland, 2013
On Christmas Day in 2013, at the Church of Saint Hyacinth, in Poland, a consecrated host (the Eucharist) fell on the floor. Out of respect, and as is standard practice, it was put into a dish of water so that it would dissolve.
After two weeks, red stains that looked like blood appeared. The bishop asked doctors from the universities of Wroclaw and Szczecin to check if the red pigment had bacterial or fungal origin, neither found such evidence.
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Two independent, university, medical forensic departments studied the Host and reached identical conclusions. They confirmed that the tissue fragments contained cross-striated muscle most similar to cardiac (heart) muscle, showing alterations typical of agony (extreme physiological stress) and were of human origin.
Later Professor Barbara Engel (Head of Cardiology, Provincial Hospital Legnica) used UV ray analysis with orange filter and definitively concluded that the fragments were human myocardial tissue.'
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The bleeding Host in Poland was approved for veneration in April 2016.
Sokolka, Poland, 2008
​During morning Mass at St Anthony's Catholic Church on 12 October 2008, the parish priest accidentally dropped a eucharistic host. Again, as is standard procedure, the Host was placed in some water and put in a safe in the sacristy (a room for storing religious items).
After a week, the nun who had put the host in the sacristy, opened the safe to check on the host and smelt the aroma of unleavened bread, and the white Host had a red stain on it.
The archbishop who had been notified, arranged for the stained host to be placed in the tabernacle and two histopathologists were commissioned to study the Host independently.
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They found that the sample was again identical to the myocardial (heart) tissue of a person who is nearing death. Additionally, the fragment contained live white blood cells and macrophages (cells involved in the healing process), meaning that the tissue was alive (impossible for science to explain) and showed signs of trauma.
Also, the structure of the muscle fibers and that of the bread were interwoven in a seamless way, which the histopathologists concluded was impossible to produce by human means.
Lanciano, Italy, 750AD
During the Mass, the host was transformed into flesh and the wine into blood.
The miracle was scientifically scrutinised in 1970 and 1971AD and it was found that the flesh was human heart tissue and the blood was human and both remarkably preserved without any preservatives being present. The tissue reacted clinically as if it was alive.
The host was placed in a special vessel and is still on display in Lanciano today.
More than half of the world’s Christians are Catholic.
The Catholic faith is the only Christian religion to have continuously existed from the time of Christ and for the last 2000 years (other denominations generally being around for less than six hundred years).
Since the time of the first Christians, there is evidence for the Holy Mass and the Eucharist being central to belief.
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Further Details:

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