Eucharistic Miracles of the World displayed in Amherstburg

By Fred Groves

In 595 A.D. a Roman noblewoman receiving Holy Communion began to laugh because she had doubts about the Real Presence of Christ in the consecrated Bread and Wine.

Pope St. Gregory the Great troubled by her disbelief decided not to give her communion and then turned the Bread into Flesh and Blood.

The Miracle was just one of over 100 that were highlighted at the Columbus Community Hall on Richmond Street in Amherstburg on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and hosted by the AmherstburgHarrow Catholic Family of Parishes. The Eucharistic Miracles of the World is an international exhibition and one in which local organizers were very pleased to be able to display.

“It’s exciting,” said Pastoral Minister Kim Bornais. “It gives us a chance to learn and renew our faith. It’s been well received, and people have been coming from all over to see it.”

Designed and created by Blessed Carlo Acutis, it took over six months to bring the exhibition of Amherstburg.

Acutis was only 15 when he died in 2016 and he is in line to be Sainted. The youth took it upon himself to research and write The Eucharist Miracles by using the internet.

“His parents weren’t religious at all. His babysitter taught him the good things