[sinkspur]

Disaster has struck at least five times after the blood failed to liquefy, including in November 1980 when some 3,000 people died in a massive earthquake that struck southern Italy.

How many times has the blood liquified?

Has disaster ever occurred after the blood has liquified?

Before I accept this as a miracle, I want the answers to these questions.

With all these people handling and kissing the vial, the warmth of fingers just might liquify the blood.

I'm a Roman Catholic, but I'm suspicious of stuff like this.

Has the Church officially sanctioned this as a miracle?

[Cultural Jihad]

The Church declares only that Public Revelation is all that is necessary to believe in. You should ask your priest about it.

[JMJ333]

Has the Church officially sanctioned this as a miracle?

No, They haven't. The church moves at a snails pace when it comes to approving apparitions and miracles. That doesn't mean that Archbishop Giordano isn't sincere in his beliefs of a miracle in the liquidation of the blood. Unless the church condemns it as false, it is acceptable to view it as a means to grace.

[Cultural Jihad]

Article on "Miracle" in the online Catholic encyclopedia

[a history buff]

Catholicism a la Italiana is often a freak show. Nowhere do statues weep blood as much as there, and nowhere else but in civitavechia do the relatives of the family in whose house it occurs refuse to give blood at the behest of the pseudo-communist gov't to see how closely they are related to jesus's obstensible blood.