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Transubstantiation   Listen
Transubstantiation

noun
1.
The Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist.
2.
An act that changes the form or character or substance of something.  Synonym: transmutation.





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"Transubstantiation" Quotes from Famous Books



... London clergyman, was the first victim under the new law (1401). He had declared that he would not worship "the cross on which Christ suffered, but only Christ himself who had suffered on the cross." He had also openly denied the doctrine of transubstantiation, which teaches that the sacramental bread is miraculously changed into the actual body of the Saviour. For these and minor heresies he was burned at Smithfield, in London, in the presence of ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery


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