On many occassion throughout the history of the Catholic Church, God has provided visible proof of the invisible reality of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. In her book, Eucharistic Miracles, Joan Carroll Cruz documents 36 such major miracles which occurred throughout history. She tells of consecrated Hosts which have turned to visible human flesh, which have bled, which have levitated, and which have become hard as flint when received by a person in mortal sin. She details the official investigations that ahve been made into these miracles, and tells readers where some can still be seen and venerated today. The author also describes miraculous Eucharistic phenomena in the lives of the Saints: Saints who lived on the Eucharist alone, who received Communion miraculously or experienced raptures, ecstasies, levitations, visions, locutions, and other extraordinary phenomena.
Biographical Note:
Joan Carroll Cruz is a native of New Orleans and is the educational product of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She attended grade school, high school and college under their tutelage. Mrs. Cruz has been a tertiary in the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order (Third Order) since 1968; for eight years she served as Mistress of Formation (Novice Mistress).
For her non-fiction books, Joan Carroll Cruz depended heavily on information received from foreign shrines, churches, convents and monasteries. Her books include The Incorruptibles, published in 1977; Desires of Thy Heart, a strongly Catholic-themed novel, also in 1977; Relics, published in 1983; Eucharistic Miracles in 1987; Secular Saints in 1989; Prayers and Heavenly Promises in 1990; Miraculous Images of Our Lady in 1993; Miraculous Images of Our Lord in 1995; Mysteries, Marvels, Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints in 1997; Angels & Devils in 1999; and Saints for the Sick in 2010.
