Posted on 09/20/2018 4:30:19 AM PDT by marshmallow
The ceremony takes place three times a year, and failure to liquefy is seen as a portent of disaster
The blood of St Januarius has liquefied at the thrice-yearly ceremony – but the officiating cardinal fell ill.
Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the Archbishop of Naples, “blanched and had to sit down”, according to the news agency ANSA. The blood of the saint had reportedly liquefied, but the cardinal was unable to take the reliquary outside.
The liquefaction of St Januarius’s blood is said to take place three times a year: once in May, once in December, and once on September 19 – the feast day of the fourth-century bishop and martyr.
Many Neapolitans believe that when the saint’s blood remains solid, it portends disaster. It preceded, for instance, a famine in 1559, a cholera outbreak in 1833, the Allied bombing in 1944, and an earthquake in 1980.
According to a Catholic Encyclopedia entry from 1910, the blood normally liquefies in May and September, but in the December event the blood “remains solid more often than not”.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Here’s a strange brew.
So much communicated with so few words. Nicely done. :)
Leaving the “catholic caucus” label off this one is really asking for it. :-D
H2O has a way of remaining more solid than not in December too. Funny how that works
So this burying a Catholic idol in my yard to help me sell my house is actually “a thing”?
It is called the communion of the Saints or their intercession at the Throne of the Lord.
The only time the little “s” saints is referred to is in regards to the belivers that are on earth still.
worked for one of my neighbors- they had their house on the market for ages
The ONLY saints God ever refers to are all true believers - whether on earth or in His presence. The rest was made up by rome.
Which doesn't appear in Scripture.
"As long as it works, who cares the source! A sale is a sale! Hail Mary!!"
-FRoman Dude
Yours OPINIONS only.
There is only one intercessor or mediator for men - Jesus Christ. All
The cheap parlor tricks or idols in the world will not change that fact.
“Liquefies”
Seriously..i read Lucifies.
That may be more true than you know. I have often thought Satan might be behind these so called miracles to keep the focus off Jesus and onto Mary, saints, archangels etc. Anytime our focus is anywhere but on Jesus we are missing the boat.
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