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In the 17th century, a man could not be ordained a priest if he was missing parts of his fingers, especially the index finger and the thumb. When a priest lost his fingers in an accident or whatever, he could be prohibited from saying Mass.
Then St. Isaac Jogues returned from America with his fingers almost entirely missing, because the Iroquois had literally chewed them off of his hands, as a means of torture. When the saint approached the Pope in this regard, the Pope gave him special permission to offer Mass even though his mangled fingers were less than what was normally required.
From the
Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914:
From New York he was sent; in mid-winter, across the ocean on a lugger of only fifty tons burden and after a voyage of two months, landed Christmas morning, 1643, on the coast of Brittany, in a state of absolute destitution. Thence he found his way to the nearest college of the Society [of Jesus - he was a Jesuit]. He was received with great honour at the court of the Queen Regent, the mother of Louis XIV, and
was allowed by Pope Urban VII the very exceptional privilege of celebrating Mass, which the mutilated condition of his hands had made canonically impossible; several of his fingers having been eaten or burned off. He was called a martyr of Christ by the pontiff.
No similar concession, up to that {preceding that time},
is known to have been granted.
[Note: Isaac Jogues was canonized by Pope Pius XI on June 29, 1930, with seven other North American martyrs. Their collective feast day is October 19.]
{Note: Their collective feast day was originally set at Sept. 26th, with Sts. Cyprian and Justina commemorated, but during the Newchurch preliminary
aggiornamento calendar revolution of 1962 under John XXIII, it was moved to October 19th.}
But It would lose the Real Presence!
St. Isaac Jogues didn't 'lose the Real Presence' - why would you?
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