As July is dedicated to the Precious Blood of Christ, Aleteia invites you to discover beautiful churches across the globe consecrated to this devotion.
“In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground” (Lk 22:44). The history of the Church is intimately tied to the history of the Precious Blood of Jesus. It is by his own blood that Christ “entered once for all into the Holy Place,” obtaining “eternal redemption,” St. Paul declares in his Letter to the Hebrews (Heb 9:12).
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