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[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 21 hours ago

https://apcz.umk.pl/TiCz/article/view/TiCz.2018.028

On October 12, 2008, during Mass in Sokółka, Poland, a consecrated Host accidentally fell to the ground and was placed in water to dissolve — the standard liturgical procedure. Instead of dissolving, it formed a red, blood-like substance.

The Metropolitan Curia of Białystok commissioned an independent scientific analysis. Two professors of pathomorphology at the Medical University of Białystok were selected:

  • Professor Maria Sobaniec-Łotowska (Department of Medical Pathomorphology)
  • Professor Stanisław Sulkowski (Department of General Pathomorphology)

They examined the sample independently.

The Witnesses

Both professors concluded that the sample was human cardiac muscle in the agony of death — myocardial tissue showing segmentation and fragmentation of muscle fibers at the intercalated discs, a pattern consistent with a heart under extreme duress.

But the finding that elevates this case above all other Eucharistic miracles is what they saw under the electron microscope:

The human heart tissue was physically, inextricably interwoven with the fibers of the wheat bread.

It was not a piece of flesh dropped onto a wafer. It was not blood smeared on top. The bread and the flesh shared the same cellular matrix. At the microscopic level, baked wheat fibers and living human cardiac tissue were seamlessly spliced together.