From Zenit:
A few days ago, the new Pope received in audience his predecessor as head of the diocese of Chiclayo, Monsignor Jesus Moliné Labarta. The Spanish Bishop and missionary revealed Prevost’s close connection with a place of Eucharistic devotion. The Peruvian city of Eten is located within the boundaries of the diocese of Chiclayo and it is here where, according to tradition, the Divine Child appeared in the Blessed Sacrament on the occasion of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, on June 2, 1649.
The Eucharistic miracle took place in a packed church, before the eyes of the parish priest and the Mayor. An event narrated in 44 pages preserved in the archives of the convent of the Franciscan Province. The scene is described thus: «It was a Child, from the waist up, with a human face and body, blond hair and purple clothing . . . The whole town repeated: «Miracle! Miracle!» On July 22 of that same year, the chronicles recounted a new miracle: Jesus reappeared in the Host before the Religious who had moved it to another tabernacle. This is the only Eucharistic miracle recorded in Peru, of which more than 20,000 testimonies of faith have been collected. In 2019, it was the then Bishop Robert Francis Prevost of Chiclayo who sent them to Rome to his predecessor, Pope Francis.
