Medieval Period · AD 1101–1200
The 12th-Century Witness to the Real Presence
From AD 1101 to 1200, 1 voice of the Church — Peter Lombard — testified that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist. These are their primary-source words, with dates and sources.
Peter Lombard
c. 1150c. 1096 – 1160 · Scholastic theologian and author of the Sentences
“And so after the consecration the substance of bread and wine is not there, although the species remain, for the species of bread and wine are there, as indeed is their taste, so that “one thing is seen, another is understood."”
The Sentences. Book 4, The Mystery of the Trinity · Read more →