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Monday, July 4, 2016

The miracle of the Jewish boy saved from the furnace

One of the miracles of the sacrament related in the 1627 Catechismo y Examen is the story of a Jewish boy who consumes a piece of the Host at school.  In a rage, his father puts him in an oven.  But miraculously, after three days, he is taken out unharmed.

Here is a brief English summary:




Here are the Spanish and Timucua versions:


Obviously, this story has very nasty historical associations with European anti-Semitism.  Who knows what the Timucua must have thought of these stories of European Jews?