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[REPOST] The Eucharistic Miracle of Fr. Daniel Youhanna

[This post was originally on the Facebook page ‘Orthodox Saint Stories’]

One day a group of people submitted a formal complaint that Fr. Daniel Youhanna was not proficient in memorizing the liturgical prayers in Coptic, and he was summoned by Metropolitan Thomas so he may personally investigate the matter. The day after receiving the metropolitan’s order to appear before him, Fr. Daniel saddled his donkey to journey and meet him. His wife baked him a loaf of bread, wrapped in a handkerchief, in case he became hungry on the journey. He began the ride to the diocese headquarters in Al Minya.

Along the road, he began to review and practice the liturgical prayers in Coptic, so when he was tested by the metropolitan, he would be able to display his proficiency.

The metropolitan, seeing Fr. Daniel walk into his office, was shocked to see, in the priest’s possession, a handkerchief soaked in blood!

“Having therefore received a charge, and having been fully assured through the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and confirmed in the word of God with full assurance of the Holy Ghost, they (the apostles) went forth with the glad tidings that the kingdom of God should come. So preaching everywhere in country and town, they appointed their first-fruits, when they had proved them by the Spirit, to be bishops and deacons unto them that should believe. And this they did in no new fashion; for indeed it had been written concerning bishops and deacons from very ancient times; for thus said the scripture in a certain place, I will appoint their bishops in righteousness and their deacons in faith.”
- St. Clement of Rome (A.D. 96).