This parchment manuscript, which was created around 1460, is in
small octavo format and consists of 14 leaves with writing. The
central part of the manuscript contains the Story of the Holy
Blood, which was written in Latin around 1460 by Hans Rabustan,
chaplain of Santa Maria. The event described is said to have
occurred in the time of Abbess Adelheid I (1211-1233). According to
the account, important to the history of piety, the nun Agnes,
daughter of a knight from Sent in the lower Engadine, received the
Eucharistic Host one Holy Thursday, with a dubious conscience; she
did not eat it however, hiding it instead in her veil and then
storing it in her little chest. Thereafter the host transformed
into flesh and blood. This is the origin of the pilgrimage to the
Holy Blood at Müstair. Appended to the narrative text are regesta
of documents concerning the cult of the Holy Blood.
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