While I am familiar with tales of bleeding hosts, I just tripped across
one mentioned in one of our manuscripts. I the front of a book of hours
at Evergreen House, the Garrett Library, there is a bifolium in which a
picture of a monstrance faces the hymn O salutaris & a prayer, plus a few
lines in red ink describing a bleeding host miracle. In Dijon, a Jew
tried to break a host; & it started to bleed. Eugene "the treasurer"
had the relic sent to Philip the Good, who received the gift in Lille in
1430.
Our books on medieval eucharistic theology & devotion all are out, and
our books on the Valois dukes make no mention of this. Any clues as to
the origins of this tale would be greatly appreciated.
tom izbicki
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