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Miraculous communion wafer just infested with bacteria

Miraculous communion wafer just infested with bacteria

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Mar 27, 2025
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The Eucharist miracle / infestation

Red marks on a communion wafer were thought by parishioners in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Morris, Indiana, to be a miraculous sign of divine presence. The blood of Christ turned out, however, to be bacteria.

The discovery at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Morris was unusual enough for a formal insp…

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