The Extraordinary Christmas Eucharistic Miracle of 2013: 'Cardiac Muscle...Typical of an Agony'
This is an amazing Eucharistic miracle!
On Dec. 25, 2013, the Saint Hyacinth’s Shrine in Legnica, Poland celebrated Christmas Mass.
During communion, a host fell on the floor. Following the Church’s instructions to respect the sacred host, the priest placed the Eucharist in holy water to dissolve.
After two weeks, the host did not completely dissolve and a red substance appeared on it. Then-Bishop Stefan Cichy then established a commission to study the "phenomenon."
Bishop Cichy's successor, Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Legnica, recognized the miracle in 2016 and released a statement regarding the Forensic Medicine Department’s analysis results:
"The histopathological image revealed tissue fragments containing fragmented parts of striated muscle. The whole image is most similar to the heart muscle...that shows changes typical of an agony. Based on genetic tests, it was confirmed that the tissue is of human origin."
It was a Christmas Eucharistic miracle!
The bishop instructed Saint Hyacinth’s Shrine parish priest Father Andrzej Ziombra to prepare an appropriate place for the reliquary for public veneration. Since then, he has witnessed countless conversion stories as a result of this Eucharistic miracle.
In 2020, Father Andrzej Ziombra said,
“My task was to collect information on miraculous cures, conversions or themes related to the pilgrimage movement, and it is already clear that there are miraculous conversions, miraculous cures…”
“There is a person in our parish who has been hostile to the Church all his life and has even fought against it. Who also committed several crimes.
“In an inexplicable and extraordinary way, God converted him, and after 50 years, he confessed and received his First Communion. And in fact, he radically changed his life, his attitude towards God, and became a very fervent believer,” Father Andrzej said.
This is just one of many conversion stories resulting from this Eucharistic miracle.
“All of this is also a sign to me–a confirmation that God has sent this impulse to me all over the world so that the whole world will meditate on the Eucharistic miracle in Legnica and ask, ‘What will God say to me through this sign?'” Father Andrzej concluded.
This Eucharistic miracle of Christmas 2013 brings about three great accomplishments through Christ: a God incarnate and born as a baby, a God who gives himself for us in the sacrifice on the Cross, and a God awaiting us in the Eucharist.