Sokółka 2008

On October 12, 2008, in the town of Sokolka, Poland, a consecrated host fell during the distribution of Communion at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church. The priest placed it in a vessel (vasculum) near the tabernacle. On October 19, a stain resembling blood was observed on the host. On October 29, the vessel with the host was moved to the tabernacle in the chapel of the presbytery, and the host was later placed on a corporal.

On January 7, 2009, a sample was taken and examined independently by two professors of pathological anatomy from the Medical University of Bialystok. Their joint conclusion stated that the material indicates cardiac muscle tissue, or at least most closely resembles it among all tissues of living organisms.

On October 14, 2009, the Metropolitan Curia of Bialystok issued a communique signed by Fr. Andrzej Kakareko, Chancellor, reporting the findings of an ecclesiastical commission appointed by Archbishop Edward Ozorowski in March 2009. The communique stated that the event does not contradict the faith of the Church but rather confirms it, and called for reverent distribution and reception of the Eucharist. The host is available for public veneration in the chapel of Sokolka.

The communique did not declare the event supernatural. Under the 2024 Vatican norms, the Church ordinarily provides a pastoral determination rather than a declaration of supernatural origin.