Sacraments themselves. The Sacraments themselves, as Sacraments, I have judged to be called signs, figure, likeness, and pledge.… My adversaries, the common mass [vulgus]—and with the common mass, the raving Paschasius and Lanfranc and others—understood the question this way: bread and wine are present on the altar up to the Consecration. At the Consecration, the bread and wine, by their corruption or absorption, sensually pass over into [being] a piece of the Flesh and Blood of Christ.10 My case