Deggendorfer Gnad
In 1337 or 1338, a pogrom in Deggendorf was part of a wave of anti-Semitism associated with the Black Death. Fires started in the Jewish quarter spread and destroyed much of the town. The Heilig-Grabkirche St. Peter und St. Paul (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Saints Peter and Paul) was begun in 1360 in the former Jewish quarter. From the fifteenth century it contained as a relic a monstrance conataining a communion wafer which had supposedly been miraculously saved from desecration by the Jews, though contemporary accounts of the pogrom make no reference to such events. The church became the site of the annual Deggendorfer Gnad, an important Bavarian Catholic pilgrimage. In the 1970s, the focus of the pilgrimage was changed from the supposed miracle to a more generic celebration of the Eucharist. The festival was finally discontinued in 1992, when Manfred Müller, Bishop of Regensburg, erected a plaque decrying the legend.
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