{"id":4625,"date":"2014-01-06T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2014-01-08T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T02:45:26","slug":"the-eucharistic-miracle-in-buenos-aires-is-an-extraordinary-sign-attested-to-by-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=4625","title":{"rendered":"The Eucharistic miracle in Buenos Aires is an extraordinary sign attested to by science."},"content":{"rendered":"

The forerunner of an epiphany is an enigma<\/em>, a period of bafflement.\u00a0 \u201cEpiphany\u201d from the Greek means \u2018manifestation\u2019 or \u2018striking appearance.\u2019\u00a0 At Epiphany the Magi arrived to welcome the newborn babe, Jesus, thereby presenting a most striking and unexpected appearance to the humble scene.\u00a0 Every year on January 6 Christians celebrate that event.\u00a0 Today on the day of Epiphany 2014 our news sources continue to present an enigma that began in 1996, the striking story of a miracle in Buenos Aires,<\/strong> the forerunner of what may be an eventual epiphany<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"magi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00a0consecrated Host becomes flesh and blood<\/strong><\/p>\n

At seven o\u2019clock in the evening on\u00a0August 18, 1996, Fr. Alejandro Pezet was saying Holy Mass at a\u00a0Catholic church in the commercial center of Buenos Aires. As he was finishing distributing Holy Communion, a\u00a0woman came up to\u00a0tell him that she had found a\u00a0discarded host on\u00a0a\u00a0candleholder at the back of the church. On\u00a0going to\u00a0the spot indicated, Fr. Alejandro saw the defiled Host. Since he was unable to\u00a0consume it, he placed it in a\u00a0container of water and put it away in the tabernacle of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0Monday, August 26, upon opening the tabernacle, he saw to\u00a0his amazement that the Host had turned into a\u00a0bloody substance. He informed Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who gave instructions that the Host be professionally photographed. The photos were taken on\u00a0September 6. They clearly show that the Host, which had become a\u00a0fragment of bloodied flesh, had grown significantly in size. For several years the Host remained in the tabernacle, the whole affair being kept a\u00a0strict secret. Since the Host suffered no visible decomposition, Cardinal Bergoglio decided to\u00a0have it scientifically analyzed.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0October 5, 1999, in the presence of the Cardinal\u2019s representatives, Dr.\u00a0Castanon took a\u00a0sample of the bloody fragment and sent it to\u00a0New York for analysis. Since he did not wish to\u00a0prejudice the study, he purposely did not inform the team of scientists of its provenance. One of these scientists was Dr. Frederic Zugiba, the well-known cardiologist and forensic pathologist. He determined that the analyzed substance was real flesh and blood containing human DNA. Zugiba testified that, \u201cthe analyzed material is a\u00a0fragment of the heart muscle found in the wall of the left ventricle close to\u00a0the valves. This muscle is responsible for the contraction of the heart. It should be borne in mind that the left cardiac ventricle pumps blood to\u00a0all parts of the body. The heart muscle is in an inflammatory condition and contains a\u00a0large number of white blood cells. This indicates that the heart was alive at the time the sample was taken. It is my contention that the heart was alive, since white blood cells die outside a\u00a0living organism. They require a\u00a0living organism to\u00a0sustain them. Thus, their presence indicates that the heart was alive when the sample was taken. What is more, these white blood cells had penetrated the tissue, which further indicates that the heart had been under severe stress, as if the owner had been beaten severely about the chest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two Australians, journalist Mike Willesee and lawyer Ron Tesoriero, witnessed these tests.\u00a0 Knowing where the sample had come from, they were dumbfounded by Dr. Zugiba’s\u00a0testimony. Mike Willesee asked the scientist how long the white blood cells would have remained alive if they had come from a\u00a0piece of human tissue, which had been kept in water. They would have ceased to\u00a0exist in a\u00a0matter of minutes, Dr. Zugiba replied. The journalist then told the doctor that the source of the sample had first been kept in ordinary water for a\u00a0month and then for another three years in a\u00a0container of distilled water; only then had the sample been taken for analysis. Dr. Zugiba was at a\u00a0loss to\u00a0account for this fact. There was no way of explaining it scientifically, he stated. Only then did Mike Willesee inform Dr. Zugiba that the analyzed sample came from a\u00a0consecrated Host (white, unleavened bread) that had mysteriously turned into bloody human flesh. Amazed by this information, Dr. Zugiba replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow and why a\u00a0consecrated Host would change its character and become living human flesh and blood will remain an inexplicable mystery to science–a mystery totally beyond her competence.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Excerpt from\u00a0an article by\u00a0 ks. Mieczys\u0142aw Piotrowski TChr]<\/p>\n

www.LOAmagazine.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The Eucharistic miracle in Buenos Aires is an extraordinary sign attested to\u00a0by science. \u00a0As an enigma, we may expect it to precede a revelation, an enlightening or astonishing disclosure through either empirical science or through spiritual science or both, since both created the enigma.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Max Heindel, founder of The Rosicrucian Fellowship and\u00a0deliverer of the\u00a0enlightening disclosures of the Elder Brothers of The Rose Cross, heralded\u00a0what will be a future\u00a0merging of science and religion.\u00a0 Appropriately, he made his transition at epiphany in the year 1919.\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[Photo of The Magi from www.Armenian Weekly.com]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The forerunner of an epiphany is an enigma, a period of bafflement.\u00a0 \u201cEpiphany\u201d from the Greek means \u2018manifestation\u2019 or \u2018striking appearance.\u2019\u00a0 At Epiphany the Magi arrived to welcome the newborn babe, Jesus, thereby presenting a most striking and unexpected appearance to the humble scene.\u00a0 Every year on January 6 Christians celebrate that event.\u00a0 Today on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[438,436,437,439,440],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-philosophy","tag-body-of-christ","tag-epiphany","tag-eucharist","tag-miracle","tag-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}