What was supposed to be a miracle wound up being little more than a bacterial infestation at a Catholic church in Indiana, leaving parishoners heartbroken and questioning their faith.
The Associated Press reports, “The Catholic faith teaches that wine and a bread wafer signify the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Typically, they’re consecrated by a priest at Mass.”
“The host, or bread, with red marks had fallen out of a Mass kit at St. Anthony Church.”
It’s a miracle!
Not so fast.
“Analysis by a laboratory revealed that ferfungus and three different species of bacteria, all of which are commonly found on human hands” was responsible for making the communion wafer appear to have red marks on it that were reminiscent of the wounds allegedly suffered by Jesus Christ at his crucifixion.
Prior to the “miracle” being debunked, one church member remarked, “We have such a little town. You can drive through and blink and you’re through it,” Shari Strassell, a church member, told WKRC-TV. “It means the world, it does, and I think there is something special about our church up here.”
There’s something special, all right. And a bottle of Purell could have prevented the entire hullabaloo.
