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    Eucharistic Miracle of

    LUDBREG
    CROATIA, 1411

    During Mass at Ludbreg in


    1411, a priest doubted
    whether the Body and Blood
    of Christ were really present
    in the Eucharistic species.
    Immediately after being
    consecrated, the wine turned
    into Blood. Today the
    precious relic of the
    miraculous Blood still draws
    thousands of the faithful, Fresco depicting the scene of the miracle

    and every year at the


    beginning of September the
    so-called “Sveta Nedilja -
    Since 1721, the relic of the Precious Blood has been kept in a precious
    Holy Sunday” is celebrated monstrance of the Augsburg goldsmiths’ school commissioned by
    Countess Eleonora Batthyany-Strattman, who gave it as a gift to the
    church in Ludbreg
    for an entire week in honor
    Fresco depicting the procession held in Rome in 1513, in which
    of the Eucharistic miracle that Pope Leo X is carrying the precious relic through the city streets

    occurred in 1411.

    I
    In 1753, the Batthyany family had Mihael Peck decorate the castle The chapel of the Batthyany Interior of the chapel of the
    chapel where the miracle took place with frescoes depicting family castle where the Batthyany family castle
    the stages of the miracle miracle occurred

    n 1411 at Ludbreg, in the chapel of the convened in Ludbreg to investigate the facts vow was only fulfilled in 1994, when democracy
    Count Batthyany’s castle, a priest was cele- connected with the Eucharistic miracle. Many was restored in Croatia. In 2005 in the votive
    brating Mass. During the consecration of people testified that they had received marvel- chapel, the artist Marijan Jakubin painted a large
    the wine, the priest doubted the truth of tran- ous cures while praying in the relic’s presence. fresco of the Last Supper in which Croatian saints
    substantiation and so the wine in the chalice On April 14, 1513, Pope Leo X published a and blesseds were drawn in place of the Apostles.
    turned into Blood. Not knowing what to do, the Bull permitting veneration of the holy relic St. John was replaced with Blessed Ivan Merz,
    priest embedded this relic in the wall behind the which he himself had carried in procession who was included among the 18 most important
    main altar. The workman who did the job was several times through the streets of Rome. The Eucharistic saints in the Church’s history during
    sworn to silence. The priest also kept it secret and relic was later returned to Croatia. the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist held in
    revealed it only at the time of his death. After the Rome in 2005. In the painting, Christ is holding
    priest’s revelation, news quickly spread and In the 18th century, northern Croatia in his hand a monstrance containing the relic of
    people started coming on pilgrimage to Ludbreg. was ravaged by the plague. The people turned the Eucharistic miracle.
    The Holy See later had the relic of the miracle to God to call upon his help, and the Croatian
    brought to Rome, where it remained for several Parliament did the same. During the session
    years. The people of Ludbreg and the surrounding held on December 15, 1739 in the city of
    area, however, continued to make pilgrimages to Varazdin, they vowed to build a chapel at
    the castle chapel. In the early 1500s, during the Ludbreg in honor of the miracle, if the plague
    pontificate of Pope Julius II, a commission was ended. The plague was averted, but the promised

    © 2006, Istituto San Clemente I Papa e Martire / The Real Presence Association, Inc.

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