Blessed Carlo Acutis had conceived and created a beautiful traveling exhibition on Eucharistic Miracles. This exhibition continues to travel throughout Italy and the world; all the Eucharistic miracles featured in the exhibition have been compiled in the book Eucharistic Miracles in the World, from which this text is taken.
The relic of this Eucharistic miracle is kept in Andechs, Germany, at the Benedictine monastery.
It occurred in Rome in 595 during a Eucharistic celebration presided over by Pope Saint Gregory the Great.
At the moment of receiving Holy Communion, a Roman noblewoman began to laugh because she was assailed by doubts about the truth of Christ's real presence in the consecrated bread and wine.
The Pope, troubled by her disbelief, decided not to give her Communion, and immediately the species of bread changed into flesh and blood.
Among the most important works mentioning this Eucharistic miracle, which occurred in Rome in 595, is the Vita Beati Gregorii Papae, written by Paul the Deacon in 787.
In those days, it was customary for the bread used in the Eucharistic celebration to be prepared by the faithful themselves. Pope Saint Gregory the Great was a direct witness to this prodigy. One Sunday, while celebrating Holy Mass at the ancient church dedicated to Saint Peter, at the moment of distributing Communion, he saw that among the faithful waiting in line was one of the women who had prepared the bread for the consecration, laughing loudly. Troubled, the Pontiff rebuked her sternly and asked her the reason for such behavior.
She justified herself by saying that she could not believe how it was possible that the bread she herself had prepared with her own hands could, through the words of consecration, become the body and blood of Christ. Saint Gregory then forbade her to receive Communion and began to implore God to enlighten her. She had just finished praying when she saw that very piece of bread prepared by the woman become flesh and blood. The woman, repentant, knelt on the ground and began to weep. Even today, part of the miracle relic is kept in Andechs, Germany, at the local Benedictine monastery.
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