The
Eucharistic miracle of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) took place on March
15, 1345, 600 years before the first apparition of the Lady of All
Nations in Amsterdam. A sick man was dying in his house and given the
last rites, but he could not keep down Holy Communion and rejected the
Host. The woman who nursed him threw the vomit into the fire. The next
morning, as she relit the fire, she saw the Host hovering above the
flames. She placed it on a cloth, put it in a box and brought it to a
priest... The Host was carried to Saint Nicolas Church, with much pomp,
in a solemn procession.
The bishop recognized the miracle in 1346. The Solemnity of the Blessed
Sacrament became a liturgical as well as urban festival. Pilgrims
flocked to the church. Today, every year on March 15th, about 10,000
people from all parts of the Netherlands participate in the feast,
praying silently and following the historic path of the first
procession.
In her second message, given on April 21, 1945, the Lady of all Nations
showed the visionary a procession filing past outside the church and
said: “That is the Miracle Procession of Amsterdam.” This meant that the
Virgin Mary intentionally chose to speak to all nations from a
recognized "Eucharistic city."
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