What happened
Around 1380 at Boxtel, a priest accidentally knocked over the chalice after the consecration. The Precious Blood spread across the corporal and the altar stone — and could not be removed.
The blood-stained corporal was venerated, a papal bull permitted its annual exposition on Trinity Sunday, and the relic was later carried to Hoogstraten, drawing centuries of pilgrims.
Where it stands
Annual exposition permitted by a 1380 papal bull; centuries of Holy Blood procession and pilgrimage.
Church recognition is a judgment about devotion — not a claim of scientific proof. We keep the two distinct.
Visit it
St. Catherine, Hoogstraten (from Boxtel), Belgium/Netherlands
View on Google Maps →“One soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.”
John 19:34
Sources
- International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles (St. Carlo Acutis) Devotional source
The bigger picture
This case is one witness in a much longer story — the Catholic teaching that Christ is truly, substantially present in the Eucharist.