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A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), [1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Eighth National Eucharistic Congress was a Roman Catholic eucharistic congress held from October 17–20, 1938 ( – ) in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, meant to foster devotion to the sacrament of the Eucharist.
The lower area of the stadium was filled with 40,000 men, with women and children in the upper deck. Searchlights lit up the monstrance with the exposed Eucharist as hymns were sung. The bishop of Amarillo, Robert Lucey, gave a meditation. At midnight, a pontifical low Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Cicognani.
[6]: 40-41 Archbishop Murray then began to carry the monstrance from Saint Andrew's. Around a third of the way to the fairgrounds, and Altar of Exposition had been set up in Como Park. [6]: 41 The monstrance was placed on the altar, and then the entirety of those in procession were able to walk by and bow in veneration. Among the many groups in ...
Pre-selected "perpetual pilgrims" traveled the entire distance with the Eucharist, stopping along the way for public Eucharistic processions in cities and acts of service. [20] Notable processions along the way included a 7,000-person procession in Saint Paul and a 4,000-person procession in San Francisco .
The Eucharist and the Social Reign of Jesus Christ Cardinal G. Pignatelli of Belmonte was the papal legate. 26th 1922 May 24–29 Rome: The Peaceful Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist Pope Pius XI officiated the Mass at the St. Peter's Square; first congress after World War I. 27th 1924 Jul 22–27 Amsterdam: The Eucharist and Holland
The event, held by the Catholic Church, was a eucharistic congress, which is a large scale gathering of Catholics that focuses on the Eucharist and other items of Catholic faith. The event was organized by Cardinal George Mundelein , the Archbishop of Chicago , and was the first International Eucharistic Congress held in the United States and ...
Caesarius also recounts more extraordinary tales, such as bees creating a shrine to Jesus after a piece of the Eucharist was placed in a beehive, [31]: 130 a church that was burnt to ashes while the pyx containing the Eucharist was still intact, [31]: 136 and a woman who found the Host transformed into congealed blood after she stored it in a box.