This site mainly produces articles in French. However, since, to my knowledge, there is no article as comprehensive as the one below in English, I have exceptionally decided to translate it. The article examines approximately 200–300 authors from Antiquity and the Middle Ages regarding the Immaculate Conception of Mary. It was originally published in December 2023. You can find our other articles translated into English here. Feel free to let me know if the translation is defective.

It is early December, and in a few days the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary will be celebrated in the Roman world.

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Recently, the Catholic apologist Erick Ybarra briefly mentioned a text from Saint Augustine which he considers to support belief in transubstantiation on the part of that Church Father. Since I have already published on this passage in French, and although this website usually publishes exclusively in that language, I wished to translate my article into English in order to facilitate discussion with this apologist. Without further delay, here is the quotation in question:

Christ carried His own body in His hands when He said: This is My body1.

An unconvincing expression

First of all, it should be recalled that to speak of Christ’s “own body” in relation to the Supper is not sufficient to presume that an author adheres to transubstantiation.

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