In the city of Lanciano , Italy, around 700, a Basilian hieromonk was assigned to celebrate Mass in the small church of St. Longinus. Celebrating in the Latin Rite and using unleavened bread, the monk had doubts about the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
During the Mass, when he said the Words of Consecration ("This is my body. This is my blood"), with doubt in his soul, the priest is said to have seen the bread change into living flesh and the wine change into live blood which coagulated into five globules, irregular and differing in shape and size (the number supposedly corresponds to the number ofwounds Christ suffered on the cross: one in each hand and foot from the nails, and the wound from the centurion's spear).
The following conclusions were drawn by a specialist:
- The flesh is real flesh and the blood is real blood
- The flesh and the blood belong to the human species
- The flesh consists of the muscular tissue of the heart
- In the flesh we see present in section: the myocardium, the endocardium, the vagus nerve and also the left ventricle of the heart for the large thickness of the myocardium. The flesh is a heart complete in its essential structure.
- The flesh and the blood have the same blood type, AB
- In the blood there were found proteins in the same normal proportions (percentage-wise) as are found in the sero-proteic make-up of fresh normal blood
- In the blood there were also found these minerals: chlorides, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium and calcium
- Both the flesh and the blood showed no evidence of preservatives (or other added chemical agents of any kind) being used.
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