Modern Period · AD 1701–1800
The 18th-Century Witness to the Real Presence
From AD 1701 to 1800, 1 voice of the Church — St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori — testified that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist. These are their primary-source words, with dates and sources.
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
c. 17501696 – 1787 · Bishop, Doctor of the Church, and founder of the Redemptorists
“Our holy faith teaches us, and we are bound to believe, that in the consecrated Host, Jesus Christ is really present under the species of bread. But we must also understand that He is thus present on our altars as on a throne of love and mercy, to dispense graces and there to show us the love which He bears us, by being pleased to dwell night and day hidden in the midst of us.”
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