Medieval Period · AD 801–900
The 9th-Century Witness to the Real Presence
From AD 801 to 900, 1 voice of the Church — St. Paschasius Radbertus — testified that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist. These are their primary-source words, with dates and sources.
St. Paschasius Radbertus
c. 830c. 785 – c. 865 · Carolingian abbot who wrote the first major treatise on the Eucharist
“Understand that these spiritual realities that are indeed neither locally nor carnally before the sight are borne up to the heights of the divine majesty. Think then whether any corporeal thing could be more sublime since the substance of bread and wine is effectively and interiorly changed into the flesh and blood of Christ, so that after the consecration it is rightly believed to be truly the very flesh and blood of Christ and nothing other than Christ”
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