Ricciarella, a woman of the small town of Lanciano (not the famous Lanciano), sought a witch to win back her unfaithful husband. The witch told her to bring a consecrated host. Ricciarella received Communion at Mass, removed the host, brought it home, placed it on hot coals in an eggshell — and the host immediately turned to bleeding flesh, the blood splashing the walls of her kitchen.
Terrified, she wrapped the relic in cloth and buried it in the stable manure-heap. Seven years later, her husband (now restored to her by other means) walked into the stable and the animal he was leading was so terrified by something invisible that he could not get it past the spot. They dug; they found the relic — flesh and blood-stained cloth — intact. The bishop took it to Offida nearby. The relic — flesh enclosed in glass within a small lead box, with the surviving piece of the bloodied tablecloth alongside — has been venerated at the Augustinian friary church of Santa Maria della Rocca at Offida for over seven centuries.