Indianapolis Archdiocese: Lab results indicate discolored host was ‘not miraculous’

[Michie]

Following an investigation into a possible Eucharistic miracle at a local parish, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis announced Monday that scientific analysis indicated that the cause was natural, not miraculous.

Last month, a post on X drew attention to what the post called a “‘potential’ Eucharistic miracle” after a parish in southern Indiana discovered a host with red spots on it, which the parish sacristan thought could be blood.

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis said in a statement shared with CNA that laboratory analysis of common bacteria had caused the discoloration.

“A biochemical analysis of a host from St. Anthony Catholic Church in Morris, Indiana, that was displaying red discoloration revealed the presence of a common bacteria found on all humans,” the statement read. “No presence of human blood was discovered.”

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Indianapolis Archdiocese: Lab results indicate host was ‘not miraculous’

Last month, a social media post drew attention to what the post called a “‘potential’ Eucharistic miracle” after a parish in Indiana discovered a host with red spots on it.

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Following an investigation into a possible Eucharistic miracle at a local parish, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis announced Monday that scientific analysis indicated that the cause was natural, not miraculous.

Last month, a post on X drew attention to what the post called a “‘potential’ Eucharistic miracle” after a parish in southern Indiana discovered a host with red spots on it, which the parish sacristan thought could be blood.

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis said in a statement shared with CNA that laboratory analysis of common bacteria had caused the discoloration.

“A biochemical analysis of a host from St. Anthony Catholic Church in Morris, Indiana, that was displaying red discoloration revealed the presence of a common bacteria found on all humans,” the statement read. “No presence of human blood was discovered.”

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Indianapolis Archdiocese: Lab results indicate host was ‘not miraculous’

Last month, a social media post drew attention to what the post called a “‘potential’ Eucharistic miracle” after a parish in Indiana discovered a host with red spots on it.

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Was it even a consecrated host?

 

[Michie]

Yes they were consecrated.


In Facebook and X posts, Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace, or CUP, a Carmel, Indiana-based Catholic advocacy group, said that a “young woman” — whom a member of the group knows well — described seeing “drops of blood” on two consecrated hosts. The hosts had apparently fallen on the floor Feb. 21 and were placed in water and kept in the tabernacle to dissolve. A day later, what the woman saw instead, she claimed, “looked like a very very thin piece of skin with blood on it.”

Indianapolis Archdiocese probes parish's alleged Eucharistic miracle

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is investigating a reported Eucharistic miracle after blood was seen on consecrated hosts.

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