Silla

Country
Spain
When
1907

The Eucharistic miracle of Silla happened in 1907. Some Hosts, stolen by unknown thieves, were recovered in perfect condition and were hidden under a stone in a little garden not far from the city. Even today it is possible to adore the miraculous Hosts: they remain intact since almost one hundred years ago.

The Hosts are preserved in the church of Our Lady of the Angels in Silla. Still today it is possible to adore the uncorrupted Hosts preserved in the church of this town at the outskirts of Valencia.

During the celebration of the Mass on March 25, 1907, feast of the Annunciation, Ferrand Gomez, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Silla, opened the tabernacle to get the Hosts for the Communion of the faithful.

Greatly perturbed, he found the little tabernacle door opened and the precious silver ciborium with all the consecrated Hosts missing. The Sacred Species were found two days later in a small garden outside the city, hidden under a stone. The pastor returned them with a solemn procession to the church.

In 1934, realizing that the Hosts remained "in the same way in which they were found under the stone and that they had remained unchanged in the original condition", the Archbishop of Valencia started a process to declare their preservation a miracle, and sealed with wax the reliquary containing the Hosts.

He also wrote a detailed documentation of the miracle. Unfortunately, two years later the bishop's residence was burned down by the anarchists-communists and the precious document was lost.

In 1982, then-Archbishop of Valencia, Monsignor Miguel Roca, started a new canonical process by which he also determined how to officially worship the Sacred Host of the miracle.

Source St. Carlo Acutis exhibition panel ·

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