Around the year 1225, there was a woman living in Santarem who was very unhappy with her marriage. She was convinced that her husband did not love her and was unfaithful. She tried all the possible means to bring back her husband without any results.

Desperate before her situation, she turned to sorcery visiting the soccer of the town. She promised her that her husband would again love her like before, but with the condition that she would pay her with a consecrated host. This frightened very much the woman, she knew this to be a sacrilege, but finally yielded to it.

After receiving communion in her parish church of Saint Stephen, she did not consume the host, but left the church immediately took the host out of her mouth and placed it in her headscarf. On her way to the sorceress house, the holy host started to bleed. The woman did not realize this was happening until the people passing by informed her, thinking that she was bleeding.

The woman’s heart started to panic, she went home and placed the host covered in the scarf at the bottom of a chest made of wood where she kept personal items in her room. She remained there with fear all day until night time. When her husband arrived late that evening, they went to sleep, with the possibility that she herself did not rest much.

The guilt of her sin tormented her, and also the idea that perhaps the host continued to bleed. In the darkness of the room, a great miracle occurred. From the chest, brilliant rays of light shined through, allowing the couple to awaken.

They saw a spectacular vision of angels adoring the holy host bleeding. The woman no longer contained herself and confessed the great sin to her husband. Both repented and spent the rest of the night kneeling in adoration and reparation before the miraculous host.

The next morning, they informed the parish priest. He went to the house and heard the story from the woman. The priest returned the host to the church of St. Stephen in a solemn procession, accompanied by many priests and laypeople.

The host continued to bleed for three days. Finally, it was decided to place the holy host, still bleeding, in a reliquary made of beeswax. The priest enclosed the holy host in the beeswax reliquary and placed it in the tabernacle.

This is where the second miracle occurred. Some time later, when the tabernacle was opened, another miracle was discovered. The wax that had encased the host was found broken into pieces, and the host was found miraculously enclosed in a crystal pix, along with the precious blood.

This was later placed in a gold and silver pear-shaped monstrance with a sunburst of 33 rays, in which it is still contained today. Through the centuries, the host has bleed repeatedly, and several images have been seen in the host, images of our Lord Jesus. Among the many witnesses is Saint Francis Xavier, the missionary apostle of India, who saw the sanctuary of the miracle before departing to the missions.

Since the occurrence of the miracle until today, every year, on the second Sunday of April, the Eucharistic miracle is taken in procession from the house where the couple lived and the miracle occurred, the Via delle Stussi, to the Church of the Miracle. The house has been a chapel since 1684. The Eucharistic miracle of Sant’Orem is considered the most important, after the miracle of Lanziano.

Studies and canonical investigations have been made during the years, being the most important the one in 1340 and 1612, which proved without doubt the authenticity and antiquity of the Eucharistic miracle.

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