Deepertruth: The Eucharistic Miracle of Offida

The Eucharistic Miracle of Offida 7/3/2023

It seems that this Eucharistic Miracle begins when newlywed had to work within reality.

The husband Giacomo was spending more time with his mule than his wife Ricciarella who felt somewhat neglected.

Working in the felds with his mule, Giacomo might be seen today as a workaholic.

Offida is not to far from the Lanciano miracle of the 7th century.

The miracle of Offida begins in Lanciano in the year 1273 when newly married Ricciarella Stasio felt it necessary to utilize the services of the town witch in order to rekindle the affection of her husband Giacomo.

The witch told Ricciarella that in order to fix her marriage she should receive Holy Communion, but not consume the consecrated Host. She should then take the Host home, burn it into a powder over her fire, and place the ashes into her husband’s food or drink. In other words, she should commit a sacrilege and desecrate the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord. This is something no one should ever do!

For some reason Ricciarella did what the witch told her to do. She placed the consecrated Host she had received at Holy Communion on a tile and held it over the fire. Instead of turning to powder, the outside portion of the Host turned into flesh and began to bleed. The center of the Host retained its original form.

Panicking, Ricciarella took wax and dirt and threw it over the Host to try and cover the Blood. But the Blood seeped through the dirt. So Ricciarella covered the Host with a linen tablecloth decorated with silk embroidery and lace. She then buried this in the stable under the dung heap of their mule. From that time on, whenever Giacomo brought their mule into the barn, the mule would genuflect toward the manure pile.