Scholastic & Reform · AD 1301–1400
The 14th-Century Witness to the Real Presence
From AD 1301 to 1400, 1 voice of the Church — St. Catherine of Siena — testified that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist. These are their primary-source words, with dates and sources.
St. Catherine of Siena
c. 13751347 – 1380 · Mystic and Doctor of the Church
“The eye and the hand perceive the white substance of the bread… but the soul sees in that whiteness whole God and whole Man… the Body, the Soul, and the Blood of Christ.”
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