The prodigy is repeated every year, usually on the Saint’s day, celebrated on July 27.
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Newsroom(29/07/2022 18:15, Gaudium Press) Last Tuesday afternoon, July 26th, the blood of Saint Pantaleon, kept in a reliquary in the Monastery of the Incarnation in Spain, liquefied. The miracle happens every year, usually on the Saint’s day, celebrated on July 27th.
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Miracle of liquefaction
Under normal conditions, the blood of this Saint remains in a solid state with a dark brown coloration. On July 27, it normally starts to become liquid and a more vivid reddish hue.
When not on display, the relic is kept in the reliquary chapel located behind the altarpiece of the church, and which houses two thousand other relics of Saints. “Yesterday, when we put it in the reliquary, it already began to move, and it was liquefying throughout the day,” explained the chaplain, Father Joaquín Martín Abad.
The relics of Saint Pantaleon
The blood arrived in Spain in 1616, the year the convent was founded, by the hands of Juan de Zúñiga, viceroy of Naples, who received it as a gift from Pope Paul V. He, in turn, gave it to his daughter, one of the first nuns of the Monastery of the Incarnation.
“The relics of Saint Pantaleon [a piece of the Saint’s bone is also preserved in the reliquary] serve us as a testimony and invitation to know more, love better and follow Jesus Christ more closely,” Father Joaquin said. (EPC)
Compiled by Teresa Joseph
