In the Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Lewiston, N.Y. lies about 12 miles north of Niagara Falls. Located in that town is the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. Several hours each day there, the Holy Eucharist is exposed for adoration in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
One particular day, a physician accompanied a woman into this chapel. The physician reported that, while there, a Host materialized in the hands of that woman. A Host had not been there before, then was.
There was no explanation for this occurrence, none at all.
Source: Brown, Michael H., Secrets of the Eucharist (Goleta, CA, Queenship Publishing Co., 1996), p. 67.
Marie-Therese Noblet
Marie-Therese Noblet was born in 1889 and lived near Rheims in France. In August, 1904, at the age of 14, she was diagnosed with Pott’s disease, a form of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that is characterized by the growth of nodules in an affected area of the body. Pott’s disease involves tuberculosis of the spine, and can lead to the collapse of spinal discs, deformity and paraplegia.
Only one year after her diagnosis with this disease, Marie-Therese suffered from pain, deformity and paralysis on her left side. It was in this condition that she travelled to Lourdes, France in August of 1905. She attended the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, where the sick commonly gather to perhaps receive the grace of healing from the Real Presence there before them. Leaving that area, she headed toward the Hospital of Our Lady of Sorrows but discovered, upon entering, that she no longer was in need of medical care. She had been cured spontaneously.
The next morning, she presented herself to the Office of the Medical Statements of Fact (a Commission charged with the authentication of cures at Lourdes) to demonstrate her healed state. For a year after this, her family doctor monitored her condition. Three years later, Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims appointed a commission to examine her again. After receiving their report, the Cardinal declared her cure was miraculous.
A brief encounter with the One present in the Eucharist was enough to change the life of this young lady.
Sources: http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/approved_apparitions/lourdes/miracles2.html#noblet and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Thérèse_Noblet.
The Television Cameraman
A television cameraman films a lot of scenes and stories that are then played for others. A certain man in Pennsylvania was a member of this profession. One day, however, a story was played for him – his own.
It was during Adoration of the Eucharist. It was reported that “every action he ever took – how he dealt with people, how he raised his children, his every action of every day – was brought up during the replay.”
The cameraman later met the Catholic author Michael Brown and informed him of his experience.
Noteworthy, of course, is the fact that this experience occurred during Adoration, in the presence of Christ Himself, for such things cannot plausibly be of human origin alone.
Source: Brown, Michael H., Secrets of the Eucharist (Goleta, CA, Queenship Publishing Co., 1996), p. 84.
Slavonice
In the year 1280, a herdsman was out in the countryside near Slavonice, Czechoslovakia when he observed something curious, a fire burning over some bushes that had grown among a heap of stones. He approached the stones and then saw a Host within the flames. It remained there, undamaged.
The local priest was summoned and he was able to identify the Host. It had been within a precious vessel stolen a year before. Evidently, the thief had discovered the Host and then discarded it. Now, the priest retook possession of the Host and placed it within another vessel. He then proceeded back towards the city, along with several other people who had come out to view the spectacle. As they neared the gates of the city, it was noticed that the Host had disappeared once again. They returned to the heap of stones and the fire and found the Host as before, within the flames.
For a second time, they travelled toward the city, but again the Host disappeared only to be rediscovered in the fire. The priest and those with him promised to erect a sanctuary by the heap of stones to commemorate the wondrous event. This time, as they returned to the city, the Host remained within the vessel and the journey was completed.
A chapel was built on the designated site and remained there until a raiding band of Hissites razed it in the 15th century. A new chapel was built in 1476 and enlarged in 1491, to the state in which it still exists to this day.
Based on: Cruz, Caroll, Eucharistic Miracles (Charlotte, North Carolina, Tan Books, 2010) p. 71-73.