Basilica of St. George (Pilgrimage Basilica of St. George), Walldürn

The pilgrimage basilica St. Georg in Walldürn was built between 1698 and 1728. The stately church is the largest Eucharistic pilgrimage site in Germany. In 1962, Pope John XXIII appointed the church to the minor basilica. The origin of the pilgrimage in Walldürn is the blood miracle of Walldürn. You can find out more about this here: wallduern.de/blutwunder.

In 1589, the Walldürner pastor Hoffius reported a momentous incident from the year 1330: During a Eucharistic celebration, the Walldürner priest Heinrich Otto overturned the already consecrated chalice out of carelessness. The shed blood of Christ in the form of wine then drew the image of the crucified Christ and eleven individual heads of Christ with a crown of thorns on the corporal. The terrified priest hid the corporal behind a stone on the altar. 50 years later he eased his conscience on his deathbed and named the hiding place of the cloth. The linen cloth was found in the named place, the miracle became widely known and a great veneration of the cloth began.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blutwunder_von_Walldürn

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