Eucharistic Miracle in Dijon, France

In 1430 in Monaco, a woman purchased a stolen monstrance containing a large host. The woman, who was unfamiliar with Catholic teaching of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, used a knife to remove the Host from the monstrance. As she cut the Host, living blood began to flow from it. As the blood dried it left imprinted on the host an image of Jesus seated on a throne with instruments of the Passion at his side. Horrified, she took the Host to Church authorities and it eventually was given to the city of Dijon, France, where it remained intact for 350 years.

We know with certainty that the miraculous Host was still in the Basilica of Saint Michael the Archangel in Dijon until February 9, 1794. Sometime after this date it was burned by rebels in the French Revolution. Numerous documents and works of art describing this Eucharistic Miracle have survived and the image of the host can still be seen in one of the stained glass windows of the cathedral in Dijon.