In Naples, during the centuries of the set occur annually wondrous phenomenon, the so-called "miracle of the blood" of San Gennaro.This martyr for the faith of Christ suffered in the year 305 after Christ.As the story goes, one of the pious women, who was present at the execution, collected in a vial some blood.The vessel she kept house in reliquaries.Since that time, and starts this inexplicable phenomenon.Namely, clotted clot suddenly "come to life" and becomes liquid.Scientific studies have shown that this is a real human blood, has all the properties of the blood of a living person.This wonderful phenomenon is repeated every year on September 19 the day of the martyrdom of the saint, and on the first Sunday of May, 16 December and sometimes even in the case of special events.
According to legend, San Gennaro was not so easy to kill.In 305 the Roman emperor Diocletian ordered to throw it in the fireplace, which burned for three days, but Januarius came out unharmed.He was thrown to wild beasts, but they began to lick his feet.And then he was beheaded.Some time later, one of the Neapolitans was a ghost Gennaro and indicated where his severed head (which at the time of execution rolled into thickets).Do not have time to connect the head to the body, how did the woman with jars of blood.When she came closer to the body, hardened blood began to bubble and become liquid again.
This miracle is contrary to basic laws of physics and human physiology.Scientists face a difficult puzzle, trying to explain something.Dried for the period from the IV-th century, the blood suddenly becomes a liquid!In the eyes of many pilgrims it changes color, volume, density ... And all this happens at certain times, from year to year, regardless of weather "comes alive" at times directly at the opening of the reliquary of the metal, which remains sacred.This change in the blood occurs spontaneously, despite requests and aspirations of the people.So, in 1976, after 8 days of prayer at the shrine of hundreds of Christians, the blood of San Gennaro remained in the collapsed state.
phenomenon of San Gennaro, which the Italians called Gennaro, has been observed for 600 years.If the blood is dry, usually followed by the tragedy.For example, in 1527 the plague broke out, which claimed 40,000 lives, and in 1979 - the last time there was no miracle - 3000 people were killed in a strong earthquake in the south of the country.
Physics and hematologists agree that the presence of blood during the 1690 years of morphologically unchanging state, as well as sudden changes in the volume and density, the transition to the liquid state and the return to the original clot - all this is impossible to estimate with scientific positions.Modern science can not give any more or less sensible explanation of what is happening mysterious phenomenon.Numerous laboratory tests reproducing this phenomenon have failed.
Sometimes the clot dissolves only slightly by changing the volume.It happens that the blood rises significantly and fills the entire vessel, and sometimes - occupies only a small space.For scientists, the shocking fact is that times change and the density of blood.The color can vary from bright scarlet to dark or rust colored.Paradoxically, the process seems to go out of the blood clot in the liquid state.Sometimes this happens instantly and sometimes it lasts a few minutes or all day these facts are obvious contradiction of the elementary laws of physics and physiology.Everyone understands that the warm blood clots quickly and dries.But not vice versa!
spectrographic analysis of the blood showed that a real human arterial blood without all sorts of chemicals or other contaminants.
version add to the blood still in the Middle Ages any substance is completely eliminated because archeological studies prove themselves bottles and corks are IV-th century, and that the bottles can not be opened except break.
blood of San Gennaro marvelous way does not obey the basic laws of nature, and if they obey, then long since deteriorated and turned to dust.
Italian scientist Gaston Lambertini after years of research says: "The law of conservation of energy, the foundations of the behavior of colloids (zheleobrazovanie and dissolution), the theory of aging organic colloids, biological experiments on seals plasma - against this background substance for centuries defies every law of naturewhich can not be explained by the fact that the supernatural.The blood of San Gennaro is a clot that lives and breathes, it is not just a relic, as a sign of eternal life and the resurrection. "
One of the witnesses of the event, in turn, said: "Ozhivanie blood - a sign of the existence of eternal life and the call to faith in the Resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the flesh of all people who ever lived on earth."
Saint Januarius therefore took the crown of martyrdom, that Christ was for him the highest value.Historians say that it happened in the year 305 in the city of Pozzuoli.He was bishop of Benvenuto.During the persecution of early Christians by the Emperor Diocletian (234 - 313) was captured Sossus deacon.Bishop Januarius indignantly protested against the unjust arrest of his deacon.In response, the governor of the region Drakontsy took custody of the bishop, and sentenced him to death.During the execution of 19 September 305, a woman of Christians gathered in his blood bottles.Now the blood of San Gennaro is kept in the Cathedral of Naples, in the chapel, built in honor of the miraculous deliverance of the city from the plague in 1526.In the middle of the metal cabinet is masterfully executed the reliquary, and in it two ampulki IV-th century.One ampulok more and two-thirds filled with blood.To a lesser ampulki quite a bit of blood.Both vessels are sealed extremely hard mastic sixteen centuries ago.
All research in this regard could made only by means of spectral analysis.
Every year on September 18 during the martyrdom of San Gennaro in Naples, near the cathedral crowds going to the next day to witness the wondrous phenomenon of "ozhivaniya" the blood of the saint.Blood remains liquid eight consecutive days.But after bubbles appear on the surface of the blood and secretly transformed into a clot.
Of course, there are also quite prosaic explanation of the phenomenon.For example, at the end of the XVIII century.Napoli took Napoleon's troops.Soldiers interested in the legend of the conversion stagnation of blood in the fluid, and when the priests brought his treasure, an army chemist said that the supposed blood - a wax that melts when it quietly brings to the flame of a candle, the French broke the sacred relics, but they were later restored andceremonies resumed.
In 1921, English physician Frederick Newton Williams, being in Naples, visited the hospital pharmacy.At this time in the pharmacy he came out of the cathedral and the sender has asked to make a "normal medicine for tomorrow's feast."Pharmacist mixture prepared from bovine bile and sodium sulfate, as his guest said, "As you can see, miracles do happen in our day. Only now they work in pharmacies."
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