God the Father and Son in eternity, Mary, you highly praised maiden, lend us wisdom and understanding. Holy Spirit, instruct me, so that this poem may be composed in praise of your dignity, and so that your praise may be increased.

Now take note, gentlemen, women and men, of what Kristof Eissiggreissenhamer did. He forgot himself against God; he joined himself to the mind of Judas. He sold God and his pure blood. In this, he committed a great deed of evil.

In the year 1477, he came to the Jews in Passau. He made an arrangement with them. He said: “Buy the sacrament. I pledge myself with a pledge. I will bring it to you.”

Mandel the Jew and Unger the Jew agreed to this. “Bring us the sacrament. We will pay you well. You must ask no further questions.” Two Jews and one Christian, the three of them, pledged false loyalty to one another, so that none of them would speak of it.

Kristof then went immediately to the Church of Our Lady in the Freiung. This is what happened: he broke the lock of God’s house and took out the venerable sacrament. He knew well that he was committing sin.

Now take note, Christians, of a great lament. He hid it until the third day. Then he went to the Jews in Passau. He cut the sacrament into eight parts on a cloth and received a Rhenish gulden for it.

Mandel the Jew kept the sacrament. Kristof then set out again toward Garmelsperg. He broke open the chest in God’s house, took out a half-penny from it and was caught with it.

God would not allow this evil to go on any longer. Without being asked, he told the judge that he had taken eight parts of the sacrament from the Jews in Passau, for a Rhenish gulden as payment, and that one piece had come to thirty pfennigs.

In the year 1478, before Mid-Lent, all the Jews in Passau were imprisoned. They were questioned about the sacrament. They were able to give special signs and tell how they had handled it.

Mandel the Jew was the first to speak. He said that he had carried the sacrament into the synagogue and laid it on their marble stone. Other Jews came to him. Veigel the Jew took it in his knife and pierced the pure sacrament.

When he had pierced the sacrament, a figure appeared before him. It had an appearance like blood. Other Jews saw it. Three drops of blood flowed clearly from the sacrament, and they could not conceal it.

They went out of the synagogue. Veigel the Jew carried the venerable sacrament home, the tender God so pure. The next morning he brought it back into the synagogue, and they took counsel about what they would do with the sacrament.

Their decision was this: they would send two pieces to the Jews in Prague, two to Neustadt, two to Salzburg and keep two among themselves, the pieces that Veigel the Jew had pierced.

Kolman the Jew then said that Walg the Jew had carried the two pieces to Veigel’s baking oven and thrown them into the fire in a small box. They saw two white doves fly out of the oven, truly.

Walg the Jew could not conceal it. He had seen a shining apparition in the fire, and in that apparition a small child. Salman the Jew said truly that they had seen two beautiful, bright angels fly out of the oven.

Then a wind and a roaring came. Something came out of the oven, so that their heads became confused. The Jews confessed further that they had wanted to burn the sacrament in order to destroy the Christian faith.

My gracious lord in Passau and also the honorable wise council ordered ten Jews to be burned. Four of them converted. They were first judged by the sword, and they acknowledged the faith.

Kristof was terribly tortured. His body was torn with red-hot tongs, and then he was burned. He said: “Every torment that can be imagined comes upon me.” He recognized his own evil.

At the place where the oven stood, where the venerable sacrament had been thrown, a beautiful house of God was built. Many holy masses are celebrated there, with great devotion, in honor of the suffering of God and of Our Lady.

Now take note: many signs occurred. A cripple who had been bent over for seven years walked upright again. May God preserve the lords and the wise council. The Jews were driven out of the city of Passau, and forty-six of them accepted baptism.

Now take note further in my poem: in Schärding there was a trial. A man had sold his good young son to the Jews in Passau. Veigel the Jew had paid him twelve shillings for innocent blood.

Now take note, good pious Christians, of the signs that God gives us as an example because of our sin and guilt. Think on this, women and men, and let this evil go to your hearts, so that we may obtain God’s favor.

Now take note, pious Christian people: great evil happens in a short time. Fritz Fellhainer has sung this song. Thank God for his bitter martyrdom, and pray to Mary, the beautiful queen, that she protect us from evil things.