Saint Maximilian desired to write a book on the teaching of the
Church with a chapter entitled "Dogma: The Most Blessed Sacrament",
perhaps eventually to be published as a booklet. He wished to write of
dogma "in a popular, lively style, illustrating the doctrine with
miracles attested by competent witnesses (for example, bearing on the
Eucharist)". The constant demands of the apostolate did not permit him
to write such a work. But in the material for a book on the Immaculate,
we find the description of the apparition of our Lady to Alphonse
Ratisbonne in the Church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome, together
with an account of a moral miracle bearing on the Eucharist. In an
instant, this unbelieving Jew, without hearing so much as a word from
the all holy Virgin, understood the entire Catholic Faith, including the
truth about the Eucharist.
For the Life of the World: St. Maximilian and the EucharistJerzy Domanski, O.F.M. Conv
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