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TRANSUBSTANTIATION, the term adopted by the Roman Catholic Church to express her teaching on the subject of the conversion of the Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist. Its signification was authoritatively defined by the Council of ...

... ration of saints, fasting, prayers for the dead and belief in purgatory, denied transubstantiation, declared the Catholic priesthood worthless, and considered the whole church of their time corrupted by the " negotia saecularia " which absorbed all 1 One resul ...

... with zeal, became convinced of the falsity of the doctrine ASMA'I— ASMODEUS of transubstantiation, and created some stir in Lincoln by her disputation*. According to Bale and Foxe her husband turned her out of doors, but in the privy council register she is s ...

... eal." In the 2nd century the writer who nearest approaches to the later idea of Transubstantiation is the gnostic Theodotus (c. 160) : " The bread no less than the oil is hallowed by the power of the name. They remain the same in outward appearance as they wer ...

... he fuller theory of sacraments. The East had a tentative hesitating doctrine of transubstantiation;* the West Sacradefines it with absolute precision (cf. Paschasius ments. Radbertus against Ratramnus; the fourth Lateran Council, 1215). But if the medieval Chu ...