In the Middle Ages, it was customary to collect drops of blood from the dead, famous for their holiness. This custom was especially widespread in Italy. The blood was stored in bowls, where it dried up and turned into a crust. But sometimes extracted from the crypts of various monasteries and churches in Italy, it briefly became liquid again.
Sometimes, losing hardness, the blood bubbled and emitted foam. This happened even with the one that was collected and hardened many centuries ago.
This miracle, figuratively called the boiling of blood, takes place several times a year in Naples, where two bowls with blood of Saint Januarius.
Saint Januarius was born at the very end of the 3rd century and was the bishop of Benevento. He traveled all over Italy, tirelessly spreading the Word of God, which caused the wrath of Diolectian, the Roman emperor and a fierce persecutor of Christians. Januarius was captured in Naples in 305, along with several students, and thrown to the lions in the city amphitheatre.
The lions, according to legend, did not touch the preachers. Then, on September 19, all Christians were driven to a forum near the city of Pozzuoli and beheaded. The legend says that the maid collected two bowls of his blood from the stone on which Januarius was executed.
Then they were supposedly buried with the body of the saint in the catacombs near Naples. An altar was erected in his honor, and the bowls were placed in a small urn. There, the blood gradually solidified. But from time to time it miraculously became liquid ...
Today, the blood is kept in a chapel inside the Cathedral of Naples, where it is usually locked up in a special crypt and constantly guarded by both secular and spiritual authorities.
The blood itself is in two glass bowls, which are enclosed in a small cylinder (cyst) of silver and glass.
This cyst is several centuries old (the exact date of its manufacture is unknown) and is approximately twelve centimeters in diameter. The cyst, in turn, is enclosed in a large silver monstrance with a handle.
One of the bowls is noticeably larger and two-thirds full of blood. The other contains only a few drops of a substance that obviously does not liquefy during the miracle. Unfortunately, these bowls are permanently sealed with a putty that is so hardened that they cannot be opened without breaking the cysts. This makes the chemical analysis of the blood impossible.
Only one attempt was made to remove the bowls. In 1956, church authorities decided to clean out the wood dust that had seeped into the cyst when the relic was hidden in shavings during the war. But the procedure was canceled as soon as it became clear that opening the case could destroy the relic itself.
But the substance in these bowls is real blood! A group of scientists from the University of Naples examined bowls in 1902. Passing a beam of light through a glass cyst, they were able to conduct a spectral analysis of the substance. The conclusions were as follows: the bowls contain blood, although the presence of some foreign substances is not excluded.
The blood in the bowls seems rather old; but it liquefies - even to the point of pseudo-boiling, with foam and bubbles - several times a year during public ceremonies held in honor of St. Januarius, and even "off schedule".
"Unsuccessful" boiling of blood is perceived as a bad sign. For example, the miracle did not happen in May 1976, just shortly before the worst earthquake in the history of Italy.
French publicist David Gurdon compiled. commissioned by the magazine "Psi International" a summary report on this phenomenon. Having visited Naples, having seen the miracle with his own eyes and having studied the historical chronicles, Gerdon published an extensive work describing the many paranormal aspects of this phenomenon. He was able to identify three additional mysteries associated with liquefaction, which, apparently, only confirm the phenomenon of this phenomenon.
1. The miracle happens completely regardless of the temperature in the cathedral.
2. Liquid blood differs in volume from solid blood. Although in a condensed state, blood occupies two-thirds of the bowl, the volume of liquefied blood can either increase or decrease. In May, there is usually more blood - to the point that it fills the entire bowl entirely. In September, on the contrary, it noticeably decreases.
For unknown reasons, blood usually increases in volume if it slowly changes from a solid to a liquid state, and decreases if it happens quickly. The volume varies from twenty to twenty-four cubic centimeters, which is completely unimaginable, given the size of the bowl.
Even in themselves, these changes are quite surprising, since any substance can either decrease or increase when it is liquefied. But in the case of the blood of Saint Januarius, this simple law of physics is violated.
Even the weight of the bowls themselves changes. Surprisingly, sometimes it decreases when the volume of liquid increases, and vice versa! This discovery was documented by Italian blood scientists in 1904. No purely scientific explanations will help here, especially when you consider that the difference in weight reaches several grams.
3. Blood doesn't just thin. The color of the solution goes through several stages of change throughout the process. Sometimes not all the contents of the bowl are liquefied, leaving a central solid “ball” or clot that hangs in the middle of the liquid.
This central blob is the strangest part of the whole phenomenon. Eyewitnesses show that he literally emits liquid blood from himself, as if serving as a kind of filter for some miraculous forces, and then, as if, draws the liquid back into himself.
The blood of Saint Januarius holds another mystery. It turns out that when it liquefies, mysterious rays of light emanate from it.
Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to conduct a blood test. Even if you open the bowls. By studying the essence of a miracle, one can destroy all the factors that allow it to happen. A carbon-14 test can tell how old a substance is, but it will require the donation of at least half of the available blood, which church authorities will never allow.
The blood of Saint Januarius did not turn into liquid.
Catholics are sure: This is a sign of a coming catastrophe
On Saturday, December 21, 2016, on the day of the memory of the Hieromartyr, at a ceremony in Naples, the holy blood of the Great Martyr Saint Januarius did not boil. The miracle did not happen, the dried blood, which is in a sealed glass ampoule, did not turn into a liquid.
This event led believers to think about the coming disasters in 2017.
In the Catholic Church, the miracle of thinning the saint's blood is performed three times a year on the day of his memory:
Saturday before the first Sunday in May - the first transfer of the relics of Januarius from Pozzuoli to Naples (5th century),
September 19 on the day of the martyrdom of St. Januarius,
December 16 (Salvation of Naples from the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631).
The miracle occurs when the closed vessel in which the blood is stored is removed and placed near the reliquary with the head of Januarius in the Cathedral of Naples.
The ritual goes like this.
The local bishop picks up a precious relic of the cathedral - a transparent bowl with a red-brown powder, reads a prayer, and the powder turns into a foaming thick liquid that looks like blood.
The entire ritual can take anywhere from a few minutes to many hours.
And this happens with a huge congestion of believers and tourists.
Indeed, in the Catholic world, the "miracle of St. Januarius" is comparable to the Orthodox descent of the Holy Fire on Easter in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
The ampoule is put on public display for about a day, until the liquid turns into powder again.
However, in the twentieth century there were cases when the miracle did not happen:
in 1939 - before the outbreak of World War II,
1944 - before the eruption of Vesuvius,
in 1980 - before a strong earthquake.
In connection with the latter incident, fears arose among believers that the absence of a miracle of thinning the blood of a saint, that is, the absence of a real miracle, is an ominous omen of future social or natural disasters.
Although the rector of the Naples chapel, Vincenzo De Gregorio, hastened to reassure the flock and warned against despondency: “We should not think about catastrophes and disasters. We are people of faith and we must continue to pray.”
But, given the current situation in Italy and Europe - with the political situation, social tensions, the decline of Faith in the Almighty, the pseudo-threat escalated by the media from Russia, the migration of peoples from the Middle East ... the Lord's warning to the Western tolerant and most democratic civilization is probably understandable, that you have embarked on a shaky path!
Saint Januarius is traditionally considered the patron saint of Naples, and the inhabitants of the city are always waiting for this miracle.
Saint Januarius lived at the end of the 3rd - beginning of the 4th century AD. He came from an aristocratic family, converted to Christianity in his youth and became the first bishop of Benevento, a city in the Italian region of Campania.
During the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian, the bishop was persecuted for his faith.
Bishop Januarius and his associates were arrested and thrown into the furnace, but they remained unharmed. Then they were given to be torn apart by lions, but the animals did not attack them.
Ultimately, it was decided to behead Januarius and other Christians.
This event took place on September 19, 305.
Well, what! We will wait for the ensuing events due to the absence of the above miracle!
Afterword.
Scientists have repeatedly tried to deal with the blood of St. Januarius. In 2005, September 19 marked the 1700th anniversary of the execution of the martyr. Approximately thirty minutes after the beginning of the prayer, Cardinal Michele Giordano announced the accomplishment of a miracle - "the blood became liquid." Festivities began in the city. But the good mood of the townspeople and tourists was spoiled by scientists from the Italian Committee for the Study of Paranormal Phenomena (an analogue of our Commission for Combating Pseudoscience at the Russian Academy of Sciences). Committee representatives Dr. Margherita Hack and Luigi Marcollo announced that they were able to repeat this miracle in the laboratory, using ingredients "that were available even to the ancient alchemists."
- The "miracle" comes from the fact that the priest, picking up the ampoule, shakes it, - says Dr. Hack. - And that's the whole secret. After all, the process of turning a powder or hardened paste into a liquid as a result of mechanical action has long been known to scientists.
It is called thixotropy from the Greek. thixis - touch and trop - change.
We had to find suitable substances, representatives from science said.
The Vatican had the opportunity to confirm the miracle, Luigi Marcollo claimed. - We asked several times to provide us with a piece of "blood" for research. But they were refused.
Like alchemists, scientists began to experiment "by touch", testing dozens of different components from among those that experimenters might have had 600 to 700 years ago. The only thing they were sure of was that the liquid in the ampoules looked like blood - it had a red-brown color.
This means that iron must have been included in its composition. Just like human blood.
Scientists managed to make a thixotropic liquid-paste, resembling blood in color and density and turning into a liquid from concussion, back in 1991.
But then they used substances that could not be obtained in the XIV century - after all, the first "phenomenon of the blood of St. Januarius" occurred in 1389.
The composition of the first "laboratory blood of Januarius" includes water, sodium chloride, calcium carbonate and one of the iron chlorides. The manufacturing process takes several days. You just need to know the concentration of substances. Sodium chloride and calcium carbonate are not a problem to get. The first is mined in salt deposits - this is ordinary table salt; the second is ordinary chalk or crushed seashells. But the required ferric chloride is not found in nature, at least in Italy.
Skeptic scientists had nothing to replace ferric chloride. The case of the "blood of Januarius" had to be stopped for ten years. Until a geological report caught my eye, which said that the mineral molisite was found in the frozen lava of Vesuvius, consisting of just the right substance! Vesuvius is located about 12 kilometers from Naples. The volcano is still considered active and has erupted about 60 times over the past 2000 years.
Water, salt, powder from shells and hardened lava... Januarius's blood came out like real.
Indirect proof of our correctness, added Marcollo, is a strange concentration of all kinds of religious "blood" artifacts in the vicinity of Naples. Evidence has been preserved that in the Middle Ages there were several more vessels with the "reviving blood" of various saints. But by the twentieth century, they all disappeared somewhere. Our version: at the heart of such miracles is the same technology using the lava of Vesuvius. However, this is just my guess. I do not want to offend the feelings of believers, but I want to get to the bottom of the truth, to get for analysis a particle of the genuine blood of St. Januarius from the Naples Cathedral.
But of course, the Catholic Church is not going to succumb to the provocation of scientists. No one will print ampoules for research either.
Cardinal Michele Giordano announced that in 1989 the relics had already been shown to scientists. Several Italian chemists carried out spectral analysis of "liquid blood". The ampoule was illuminated with light and the rays were "caught" at the exit. By changing the spectrum of light, you can determine the approximate composition of the substance through which it passed. The conclusion was as follows: in the ampoule there is hemoglobin - the basis of human blood. However, it is known that the chemists who conducted the analysis were far from atheists. On the contrary, zealous Catholics. Perhaps this left the skeptics unsatisfied. Moreover, it was hinted that hemoglobin contains protein and ions of the same iron. So spectrometry cannot give an accurate conclusion.
The only way out is to open the ampoule and take the substance for analysis.
But, alas! Until this is given!
One thing is clear, that when the blood of a saint does not foam, misfortunes are coming, therefore, the natural blood powder in vials there or the composition creatively processed by the geniuses of antiquity does not beg for a miracle and, accordingly, the consequences in its absence.
One of the most sacred miracles in the Roman Catholic Church is the so-called "miracle of St. Januaria". For 627 years, 3 times a year (September 19 on the day of the martyrdom of St. Januarius, December 16 on the day of the salvation of Naples from the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631 and on the Saturday before the first Sunday of May on the day of the first transfer of the relics of St. Januarius to Naples) in the presence of many pilgrims, a miracle occurs when the dried blood of St. Januaria becomes liquid and boils.
Saint Januarius lived in the III-IV centuries and was the bishop of Benevento. He carried out missionary work throughout Italy, which caused the wrath of Emperor Diocletian, a fierce persecutor of Christians. Januarius was captured in Naples in 305 and, together with several students, was thrown to the lions. However, the lions did not touch the preachers, and then on September 19 all Christians were beheaded. According to legend, a maid collected two bowls of his blood from the stone on which Januarius was executed, which was subsequently placed in two sealed glass capsules, where it dried and hardened.
Since then, three times a year, the blood in the capsules liquefies and boils, significantly increasing in volume. It is believed that at this moment some mysterious rays emanate from the blood. The “non-boiling” of blood among Catholics is considered an extremely bad sign. In the 20th century, a miracle did not happen several times, and each time Italy experienced catastrophes.
The miracle did not happen in September 1939 before the outbreak of World War II, in 1944 before the eruption of Vesuvius, in 1973 before the outbreak of cholera and in 1980 before a powerful earthquake. And now, as the Italian La Stampa reported, on December 16, the miracle of boiling blood did not happen, which horrified numerous pilgrims in Naples and Catholics around the world. And although the rector of the chapel of St. Monsignor Vincenzo De Gregorio of Januarius hurried to reassure the Catholics and said: “We should not think about catastrophes and disasters. We are people of faith, and we must continue to pray,” panic and horror gripped millions of believers around the world.
Many Catholics attribute the absence of a miracle to the appearance of the Antichrist and the world war of extermination. Many expect a civil war in Europe and, as a result, its complete devastation. And given the fact that the Italian authorities are already driving Italians out of their homes and emptying hospitals for the sake of refugees, such disasters for Italy and for all of Europe are not such a fantastic future. This event is a special blow for Pope Francis.
In 2016, several events took place for the pontiff and the Catholic Church, which can significantly affect not only the material and financial condition of the church as the world's largest financial corporation, but also its role as a spiritual leader in Western countries. On November 21, according to Reuters reports, the Vatican indefinitely extended the right of all Roman Catholic priests to pardon abortions. Previously, only bishops or special confessors had such power. The Catholic Church has launched the Sindr smartphone app, which allows online confession and absolution, as well as an interactive map to find the nearest church. To popularize the application, it is integrated with a popular dating service. With the click of a button, users can be forgiven, meet someone, and find their way to the temple.
But most importantly, the Vatican, led by globalist forces, is losing in the struggle for a new world order. After the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, the Vatican, whose interests are represented in the US by the Democrats, faced a situation where it could lose financial hegemony and control over the global economy, and sacred plans to establish a new world order through the creation of chaos, turning the world into an arena of wars , population reduction and complete control over the survivors will turn into nothing.
Donald Trump represents, first of all, the old centuries-old “Masonic Guard”, the struggle against which the Vatican began on Friday, October 13, 1307, with special instructions from Pope Clement V to fight the Knights Templar. This struggle, with varying success, has continued to the present and has intensified due to Trump's campaign promises to dissolve the Fed and introduce a "gold standard". This was followed by personal attacks by Pope Francis on Trump, declaring the latter a "non-Christian", and the New York Times published threats to Trump, saying that the US presidential campaign would end with his assassination.
The fight took on a personal dimension after the dead body of the pontiff's private secretary, 34-year-old Miriam Vuolu, was found on February 25 at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, a small hotel within the Vatican's walls, showing signs of a violent death. It turned out that Vuolu was 7 months pregnant. According to anonymous informed sources in the Vatican, Miriam was not just a secretary, but also the mistress of the pontiff. And the child she was carrying was Francis' child. The murder was allegedly carried out with acid, a favorite weapon of centuries of Masonic lodges.
Thus, the merciless struggle for the presidency of the United States between globalists and Freemasons has become so aggravated that the death of any, even the most senior leader of one of the parties, seems very likely.
And once Trump takes office, Trump will make every effort, backed by the power and capabilities of the United States, to deal with his centuries-old enemies. In this light, the consequences of the absence of the miracle of St. Januarius this year are already presented in a completely outlined form, predicting great upheavals for the Roman Catholic Church, its pontiff and Europe in 2017.
In Naples, the miracle of boiling the blood of St. Januarius did not happen, in connection with which Catholics in a panic expect the Apocalypse
One of the most sacred miracles in the Roman Catholic Church is the so-called "miracle of St. Januaria". For 627 years, 3 times a year (September 19 on the day of the martyrdom of St. Januarius, December 16 on the day of the salvation of Naples from the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631 and on the Saturday before the first Sunday of May on the day of the first transfer of the relics of St. Januarius to Naples) in the presence of many pilgrims, a miracle occurs when the dried blood of St. Januaria becomes liquid and boils.
Saint Januarius lived in the III-IV centuries and was the bishop of Benevento. He carried out missionary work throughout Italy, which caused the wrath of the emperor Diocletian, a fierce persecutor of Christians. Januaria seized in Naples in 305 and, together with several students, were thrown to the lions. However, the lions did not touch the preachers, and then on September 19 all Christians were beheaded. According to legend, a maid collected from the stone on which they were executed Januaria, two bowls of his blood, which was subsequently placed in two sealed glass capsules, where it dried and hardened.
Since then, three times a year, the blood in the capsules liquefies and boils, significantly increasing in volume. It is believed that at this moment some mysterious rays emanate from the blood. The “non-boiling” of blood among Catholics is considered an extremely bad sign. In the 20th century, a miracle did not happen several times, and each time Italy experienced catastrophes.
The miracle did not happen in September 1939 before the outbreak of World War II, in 1944 before the eruption of Vesuvius, in 1973 before the outbreak of cholera and in 1980 before a powerful earthquake. And so, as the Italian reported, on December 16, the miracle of boiling blood did not happen, which horrified numerous pilgrims in Naples and Catholics around the world.
And although the rector of the chapel St. Januaria monsignor Vincenzo De Gregorio hastened to reassure the Catholics and said: “We should not think about catastrophes and disasters. We are people of faith and we must continue to pray.", - panic and horror gripped millions of believers around the world.
Many Catholics attribute the absence of a miracle to the appearance of the Antichrist and the world war of extermination. Many expect a civil war in Europe and, as a result, its complete devastation. And given the fact that the Italian authorities are already driving Italians out of their homes and emptying hospitals for the sake of refugees, such disasters for Italy and for all of Europe are not such a fantastic future.
This event is a special blow for the Pope Francis. In 2016, several events took place for the pontiff and the Catholic Church, which can significantly affect not only the material and financial condition of the church as the world's largest financial corporation, but also its role as a spiritual leader in Western countries.
On November 21, according to Reuters reports, the Vatican indefinitely extended the right of all Roman Catholic priests to pardon abortions. Previously, only bishops or special confessors had such power.
The Catholic Church has launched the Sindr smartphone app, which allows online confession and absolution, as well as an interactive map to find the nearest church. To popularize the application, it is integrated with a popular dating service. With the click of a button, users can be forgiven, meet someone, and find their way to the temple.
But most importantly, the Vatican, led by globalist forces, is losing in the struggle for a new world order. After the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, the Vatican, whose interests are represented in the US by the Democrats, faced a situation where it could lose financial hegemony and control over the global economy, and sacred plans to establish a new world order through the creation of chaos, turning the world into an arena of wars , population reduction and complete control over the survivors will turn into nothing.
Donald Trump represents, first of all, the old centuries-old "Masonic guard", the struggle with which for the world order the Vatican began on Friday, October 13, 1307, by special orders of the pope Clement V against the Knights Templar. This struggle, with varying success, has continued to the present day and has intensified due to election promises Trump dissolve the Fed and introduce a "gold standard".
This was followed by personal attacks by Pope Francis on Trump with the announcement of the latter "non-Christian", and the New York Times published threats to Trump, which said that the US presidential campaign would end with his assassination. The fight took on a personal dimension after the dead body of the pontiff's private secretary, 34-year-old Miriam Vuolu, was found on February 25 at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, a small hotel within the Vatican's walls, showing signs of a violent death. It turned out that Vuolu was 7 months pregnant. According to anonymous informed sources in the Vatican, Miriam was not just a secretary, but also the mistress of the pontiff. And the child she bore was a child Francis. The murder was allegedly carried out with acid, a favorite weapon of centuries of Masonic lodges.
Thus, the merciless struggle for the presidency of the United States between globalists and Freemasons has become so aggravated that the death of any, even the most senior leader of one of the parties, seems very likely. And once Trump takes office, Trump will make every effort, backed by the power and capabilities of the United States, to deal with his centuries-old enemies.
In this light, the consequences of the absence of the miracle of St. Januarius this year are already presented in a completely outlined form, predicting great upheavals for the Roman Catholic Church, its pontiff and Europe in 2017.
Alexander Nikishin
