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Apr 29, 2024 · Siena is a Gothic city, laid out over the slopes of three steep hills whose soil yields the pigment Burnt Sienna (hence the name of the color). Note the city is spelled with one “n”, but sometimes spelled with two “n”s. It has remained practically unchanged since medieval times.
May 16, 2018 · The miraculous Hosts have been cherished and venerated in the Basilica of St. Francis in Siena for over 250 years. Christ the Miracle Worker in the Eucharist Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J., S.T.D.
Apr 7, 2021 · Even today, there is an ongoing Eucharistic miracle in Siena (the home of St. Catherine) in which a collection of around 350 consecrated hosts (the bread which has become the Body and Blood of Christ) was found to be incorrupt and has remained incorrupt from 1730 until today.
Pope John Paul II, during a visit in the city of Siena on September 14, 1980, said regarding the Hosts: “It is the Real Presence!” The permanent miracle of the Sacred Hosts is kept in the Chapel Piccolimini in the summer months, and in the Chapel Martinozzi in the winter months.
THE MIRACULOUS HOSTS OF SIENA. Siena, rose-red and wreathed about with pale olives, sits like. some mediaeval enchantress on her three hills. Opening to the. stranger "cor magis quam ostium," as her motto says, she al lures him within her walls, and puts upon him such enchant.
Oct 22, 2018 · On August 18, the archbishop of Siena, in a magnificent procession, carried the hosts (placed in a ciborium) back to the Church of St. Francis. A huge crowd of people from all walks of life and social classes followed the archbishop and the clergy of Siena along streets which had been decorated for the joyous occasion.
