Eucharistic Miracle of Asti

Advertisement Asti on 25 July 1535, in the collegiate church of San Secondo, Don Domenico Occelli was celebrating Mass when, to break the consecrated host, according to what passed down from tradition they drank some drops of blood, falling on the chalice and on the pavement. The present shouted at the miracle but the mass was not interrupted: the particula then returned to normal appearance and was assumed by the celebrant.

Monsignor Scipione Roero, bishop of the city, established a regular canonical process that declared the veracity of the episode, and sent a report to Pope Paul III, who issued a bubble, with which he granted plenary indulgence to those who visited the church on the day of the miracle, reciting three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys.

According to another document^[2], some heretical soldiers, belonging to the army of Emperor Charles V, witnessed the fact and converted. In the collegiate church, where the chalice and paten are still preserved today, the following inscription commemorates the episode: "Hic ubi Christus ex sacred bread effuso sanguine exteram vi traxit fidem astensem roboravit" (Here Christ from the sacred bread having shed blood, drew with extraneous force to faith and confirmed that of the Astigians).

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