Eucharistic Miracle of Trani,
Italy (sec. XI)
Italy (1000)
A non-Christian woman, incredulous
about the true Catholic dogma of the Real Presence
of Jesus in the Eucharist, aided by some of her
Christian friends, managed to steal a consecrated
Host during the celebration of a Sacred Mass.
The woman, as if daring God, put the consecrated
Host into a frying pan of oil. Suddenly the Host
spilled out masses of blood, which poured to the
floor and out of the door of the house.
 To
this day in Trani, Puglia, the relic of this miracle,
which happend around the year one thousand, is
housed in the Cathedral of Holy Mary of the Assumption.
There are numerous documents, which retell this
miracle; among them are Eucharistic monograms,
which are on the ancient streets of the city.
Brother Bartolomeo Campi, describes in his work,
“L'Inamorato di Gesù Cristo”
(1625), an accurate account of the unfolding of
the facts: “Pretending to be Christian,
the woman received Communion with the others…
and took the consecrated Host from her mouth and
transferred It to a handkerchief. Once home she
wanted to experiment with whether or not It was
bread and put the consecrated Host into a heated
frying pan filled with oil. Upon contact with
the boiling oil, the consecrated Host miraculously
became bloody Flesh, and a hemorrhage, so to speak,
would not stop flowing and went from the pan all
over the cursed woman and her house. Terrorized,
the woman began to scream …and the neighbors
ran over to find out the reasons behind her cries.
The archbishop was immediately informed of the
events and ordered the return of the consecrated
Host to the church. That same Cistercian Abbot
Ferdidando Ughelli (1670), in his well-known encyclopedic
work “Italia Sacra”, wrote in a notation
of his seventh volume: “In Trani a sacred
Host was fried to the dismay of our Faith…
the true Flesh and Blood of Christ was unveiled
in the unleavened bread which fell to the ground”.
An indirect confirmation to this miracle is also
found in the affirmation of St. Pio from Pietreclina,
which exclaimed: “Trani is lucky to have
been bathed by the Blood of Christ twice”.
The first reference being to this miracle and
the later to the miracle of the Colonna Crucifix
from which an abundant stream of blood flowed
from Jesus' nose. Thanks to the generosity of
the nobleman Ottavian Campitelli, the house of
the woman was converted into a chapel in 1706.
In 1616 the relic of the Host was transferred
to an antique silver shrine donated by Fabrizio
de Cunio. Throughout various eras, many tests
were performed on this sacred relic and verified,
the last one took place in 1924, at the Inter-diocesan
Eucharistic Congress headed by Monsignor Giuseppe
Maria Leo.
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