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 collected in the book Eucharistic Miracles of the World, from which this text is taken.
This Eucharistic miracle occurred on May 5, 2001, in Trivandrum.
The face of a man resembling Christ crowned with thorns appeared in the host.
His Beatitude Cyril Mar Baselice, Archbishop of the Diocese of Trivandrum, wrote about this prodigy: «For us believers, what we saw is something we have always believed […].
If Our Lord is speaking to us by giving us this sign, it certainly requires a response from us».
The monstrance containing the miraculous host is still preserved in the church.
Father Johnson Karoor, parish priest of the church where the Eucharistic miracle occurred, recounts in his testimony: «On April 28, 2001, in the parish church of Saint Mary in Chirattakonam, we began the novena to Saint Jude Thaddeus as we do every year. At 8:49 in the morning, I exposed the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance and began public adoration. After a few minutes, I saw what looked like three points appear in the Holy Eucharist.
I then stopped praying and began looking at the monstrance, inviting the faithful to admire the three points as well. I then asked the faithful to remain in prayer and placed the monstrance inside the tabernacle. On April 30, I celebrated Holy Mass, and the following day I left for Trivandrum. On Saturday morning, May 5, 2001, I opened the church for the customary celebrations, got ready, went to open the tabernacle to see what had happened to the Eucharist in the monstrance, and immediately noticed in it what looked like a human face.
I was extremely moved and asked the faithful to bow and begin praying. I thought that I was the only one who could see the face, so I asked the altar server what he could see in the monstrance.
He replied, “I see a human figure.” I noticed that the rest of the faithful were also gazing intently at the monstrance.
We began adoration, and the human figure became increasingly clearer as the minutes passed. I did not have the courage to say anything and began to cry.
During adoration, we had the custom of reading a passage from Sacred Scripture. The passage that came up that day was chapter 20 of the Gospel of John, which recounts the episode in which the risen Jesus appears to Saint Thomas and asks him to look at his wounds. I was able to say only a few words in my homily and, since I had to go and celebrate Mass at the nearby parish of Kokkodu, I immediately called a photographer to take pictures of the Holy Eucharist with the human face inside it. After two hours, all the photographs had been developed; in every picture, the face appeared increasingly clearer.”
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