Sunday, April 12, 2020

Eucharistic miracle of Cascia

In 1330, a priest went to carry the Communion to a sick peasant near Siena, Italy. Before leaving, in a hurry and without due respect, he placed a Host within the pages of his breviary, which is the book of prayers of priests. At the time of Communion, he opened the breviary and saw that the Host had become a Blood stain between the two pages of the book. He came out sorry and handed the book with the Blood stains to an priest Augustinian in Siena, who was very saint. The priest Augustinian listened to the irreverent priest in Confession and took one page stained by Blood to the city of Perugia and the other to Cascia. The page that was in Perugia was lost in 1866, but the page with the stain of Blood of Cascia is preserved today and is venerated in the Basilica of Santa Rita.