Parish Church of St. Oswald

Parish Church of St. Oswald – Seefeld, Austria

Located in the centre of Seefeld, the pilgrimage church, which is dedicated to St. Oswald, ranked, for a long time, as one of the most famous places of pilgrimage in Tyrol. It owes its notoriety to the so-called ‘Miracle of the Host’. According to legend, during Mass on Holy Thursday, 25th March 1384, Oswald Milser, from the Schlossberg border fortress, demanded a larger-than-usual piece of the communion host from the priest. Upon receiving the host he sank into the ground up to his knees. The altar stone, which he tried to grasp on to, likewise descended into the ground. The Parish Church…



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