Late Patristic · AD 701–800
The 8th-Century Witness to the Real Presence
From AD 701 to 800, 1 voice of the Church — St. John Damascene — testified that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist. These are their primary-source words, with dates and sources.
St. John Damascene
c. 725c. 675 – 749 · Monk, priest, and Doctor of the Church
“The body which is born of the holy Virgin is in truth body united with divinity, not that the body which was received up into the heavens descends, but that the bread itself and the wine are changed into God's body and blood.”
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