DRONEROITALY, 1631

Eucharistic Miracle of

In 1631, a young farm girl, foolishly kindled a fire with dryhay. Because of a heavy wind,the fire spread to the town ofDronero. Every attempt toextinguish the flames proveduseless. A Capuchin friar,Maurice da Ceva, inspired byhis great love of the BlessedSacrament took the monstrancecontaining the large Host fromthe Church of St. Brigid and in procession walked to wherethe fire was raging. The fire atonce subsided.

SAN MAURO LA BRUCAITALY, 1969

At San Mauro la Bruca unknown thieves secretly enteredthe church and stole severalsacred objects - one was the pyx (ciborium) that containedconsecrated Hosts. The thievesthrew the Hosts aside; a childdiscovered them. The Hosts arepreserved to this day.

Dronero

The countryside aroundDronero

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n the afternoon of Sunday, August 3,1631, a great fire broke out in the commercial district of Saluzzo in the

town of Dronero. A young farm girl foolishlykindled a fire with dry hay at the very moment anup wind was developing into a thunderstorm.The flames quickly and violently spread to thehome of the Borgo Maira. The townspeople desperately attempted to extinguish the fire, butall their efforts proved useless as the fire develo-ped further. Friar Maurice da Ceva, a Capuchin,was inspired to have recourse to the power of theLord in the Blessed Sacrament. He immediatelyorganized a procession with the BlessedSacrament – followed by all the townspeople – to the location of the fire. The moment theBlessed Sacrament arrived, the flames subsidedand miraculously were extinguished ! This mira-culous event is described in details on a stonetablet in the small Church of St. Brigid. On theFeast of Corpus Christi, the citizens of Dronerokeep alive the memory of this miracle with asolemn annual procession with the BlessedSacrament.

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The façade of the churchof San Mauro

n the night of July 25, 1969, some thievesbroke into the parish church of San Maurola Bruca with the intention of stealing

some of the more precious objects. After they hadpried open the tabernacle, they took a ciboriumcontaining many consecrated Hosts. Once theyleft the church, the thieves emptied the ciboriumand threw the Hosts on a footpath. On the follo-wing morning, a child noticed the pile of Hostsat the intersection of the road and gathering themup, he immediately gave them to the pastor. Itwas only in 1994, after 25 years of detailed analysis, that Msgr. Biagio D’Agostino, Bishop ofVallo della Lucania, acknowledged the miracu-lous preservation of the Hosts and authorized thecult. The conclusion of any chemical and scienti-fic analysis acknowledges that after just 6 monthswheat flour severely deteriorates and in a fewyears turns gelatinous and then, finally, to dust.

The chapel from which theBlessed Sacrament was taken. Thestone tablet describes the miracle

The niche where the miraculousHosts are preservedInside of the church View of San Mauro la Bruca

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