TRANSUBSTANTIATION, Sylvester Hassell In 831 Paschasius Radbert, a French monk, published a book in which he promulgated and expounded his monstrous theory of transubstantiation— that the bread and wine in the Lord’s supper, after having been consecrated by the priest, became the actual body and blood of Christ, the same flesh in which he was born and died and rose; and not simply the commemorative emblems of Christ’s body and blood. This amazing innovation produced great opposition at first, but gradually gained ground, and was decreed as an article of faith by the Romish Church, at the instance of Pope Innocent III., in the fourth Lateran Council, A.D. 1215. (Hassell’s History pg 424)