The sacrament of the Eucharist (lat. examen per eucharistiam, purgatio per corpus et sanguine domini nostri of Jesus Christ) belonged to the divine judgments in the early Middle Ages. It was applied especially to clerics and monks, and was based on the belief that the culinary pleasure of a cul-de-sac was injurious. It was thought that a criminal, in the consciousness of his guilt, would have to die immediately, but at least he had to suffer physical ailments. However, if the host was swallowed without consequences, the Lord's Supper consisted.
The Lord's Supper was introduced into the secular and spiritual criminal procedure in the 8th century. Since the end of the 13th century, the sacramentary meal was no longer used in all of Europe, but it was longer in Spain.
The Lord's Supper was used, among others, to the Archbishop of Mainz, Gregor von Tours, or Lothar II. Edit source text
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