<P> The miracle is usually described roughly as follows : In the city of Lanciano , Italy , then known as Anxanum , some time in the 700s , a Basilian hieromonk was assigned to celebrate Mass at the monastery of St. Longinus . Celebrating in the Latin Rite and using unleavened bread , the monk had doubts about the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation . 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 saw the bread change into living flesh and the wine change into blood which coagulated into five globules , irregular and differing in shape and size . The miracle was supposed to have been contemporaneously investigated and confirmed by the Church , though no documents from this alleged investigation are extant . </P>
<P> The miracle is usually described roughly as follows : In the city of Lanciano , Italy , then known as Anxanum , some time in the 700s , a Basilian hieromonk was assigned to celebrate Mass at the monastery of St. Longinus . Celebrating in the Latin Rite and using unleavened bread , the monk had doubts about the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation . 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 saw the bread change into living flesh and the wine change into blood which coagulated into five globules , irregular and differing in shape and size . The miracle was supposed to have been contemporaneously investigated and confirmed by the Church , though no documents from this alleged investigation are extant . </P>
when did the miracle of lanciano take place
when did the miracle of lanciano take place
the monastery of St. Longinus
the monastery of St. Longinus