"The presence of Christ's true body and blood in this sacrament cannot be detected by sense, nor understanding, but by faith alone [(sola fide)], which rests upon Divine authority. Hence, on Luke 22:19: 'This is My body which shall be delivered up for you,' Cyril says: 'Doubt not whether this be true; but take rather the Saviour's words with faith; for since He is the Truth, He lieth not.'""verum corpus Christi et sanguinem esse in hoc sacramento, non sensu deprehendi potest, sed sola fide, quae auctoritati divinae innititur."
St. Thomas Aquinas, ST III.75.1 ("Whether the body of Christ be in this sacrament in very truth, or merely as in a figure or sign?").Resp. Latin from Corpus Thomisticum.
This may be the passage to which the Dominican Fr. Thomas Joseph White refers when, in a podcast on the Thomistic Institute website, he notes that, according to St. Thomas, Protestants of the sola fide have already everything they need for an adherence to a robust doctrine of the transubstantiation of the elements.
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