Definition of "real presence" []

• The actual presence of Christ's body and blood in the Eucharistic sacrament. (noun)

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• "Psychologically, it is quite intelligible that men like Zwingli, Karlstadt and Oecolampadius should tear down the altars, for they denied Christ's real presence in the Sacrament."
• "Only about Augustine (d. 430) must a word be said, since, in regard to the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist he is cited as favouring the "symbolical" theory."