Polish Catholics say communion wafer spot is Jesus’ heart tissue
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press October 2, 2011 8:44PM
A priest holds a reliquary containing a dark spot that appeared on a communion wafer in 2008 and which some Roman Catholics in Poland believe to be heart tissue of Jesus, in Sokolka, Poland, on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011. About 1,000 people gathered to celebrate what they hold to be a miracle as the relic went on display in the town's church of St. Anthony. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc) POLAND OUT
Updated: January 23, 2012 3:44AM
WARSAW, Poland — Roman Catholics in Poland gathered Sunday for a special Mass celebrating what they see as a miracle: the appearance on a communion wafer of a dark spot that they are convinced is part of the heart of Jesus.
The communion wafer in question developed a brown spot in 2008 after falling on the floor during a Mass in the eastern Polish town of Sokolka. Two medical doctors determined that the spot was heart muscle tissue, church officials have said.
Bialystok Archbishop Edward Ozorowski said during the Mass that in history, the “substance of Christ’s body or blood has become available to the human senses, and this also happened in Sokolka.”
“For God, nothing is impossible,” Ozorowski said.
The dark-spotted wafer was carried aloft in a reliquary by a golden-robed priest in a procession and was put on display in the town’s church of St. Anthony as about 1,000 faithful looked on.
Though some believers consider the object miraculous, the Vatican is still examining the matter and has not yet officially decided whether to declare it a miracle, church spokesman Andrzej Debski said.
AP
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