The Eucharistic Miracle in
Buenos Aires
What this shows us:
Tests
August 18, 1996
This was a sign of faith
It reminds us that His presence is real, and not just symbolic.
Confirms Christ really does give us His glorified body and blood as spiritual food and drink
- Dr. Castanon took a sample of the bloody fragment and sent it to New York for analysis
- didn’t tell the scientists where it came from so there would be no prejudice
- Catholic Church in commercial center of Buenos Aires
- Fr. Alejandro Pezet was saying mass
- after Communion, lady came up to him saying there was a discarded Host on a candle holder
- couldn’t eat it
- so he put it in a water container and placed it in the tabernacle
Findings:
- determined that the analyzed substance was real flesh and blood containing human DNA
- white blood cells should not have survived in water for that long
“The analyzed material is a fragment of the heart muscle found in the wall of the left ventricle close to the 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 all parts of the body. The heart muscle is in an inflammatory condition and contains a large 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 living organism. They require a living organism to sustain 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.” Dr. Zugiba
August 26, 1996
“How and why a consecrated 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” Dr. Zugiba
- Host turned into a bloody substance
- Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio had it professionally photographed-taken on September 6
- showed that the Host, a mass of fragment of bloody flesh, had grown
Documentary
It was kept secret for years until Bergoglio decided to have it scientifically analyzed
- http://www.loamagazine.org/nr/the_main_topic/eucharistic_miracle_in_buenos.html
- https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/pope-francis-eucharistic-miracle-in-argentina/
- http://www.liminamortis.org/eucharistic-miracle-buenos-aires/