"'Twas God the Word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it: And what that Word did make it, That I believe and take it."
— Transubstantiation

January 1, 1970

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Elizabeth I of England. Verses on the Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist whilst prisoner in Woodstock Palace (c. 1554), quoted in Queen Elizabeth's Opinion concerning Transubstantiation, Or the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament; with some Prayers and Thanksgiving composed by Her in Imminent Dangers (1688)