A Eucharistic miracle, in the Church's careful language, is an event in which the consecrated Host or Precious Blood is reported to depart from its ordinary appearance — becoming visibly flesh, or blood, or remaining incorrupt for centuries — as a sign of Christ's abiding presence. Most of the accounts below were examined by a local bishop or a diocesan tribunal at the time; a handful have been studied since with forensic pathology. None of them is an article of faith. The Church has never required a Catholic to believe in any single one — only in the Real Presence itself, which these stories exist to illustrate, not to prove (CCC 1374–1377). This chronicle also includes the claims the Church looked at and did not uphold — a laboratory finding of mold or bacteria, a bishop's negative judgment, or, in a number of medieval cases, a legend that turned out to be a fabricated accusation against a local Jewish community, used to justify a pogrom or expulsion. Use the filter below to see either side of the record.
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