Blood of St. Pantaleon draws thousands to Madrid

georgieporgy

regular readers will love this story;




Thousands of Catholics gathered July 27 at the Monastery of the Incarnation in Madrid, Spain to witness the liquefaction of the blood of St. Pantaleon.
“Some years it liquefies sooner or stays liquefied longer, it’s not a mathematical question,” Father Gabriel Ricci told the Efe news agency.
Fr. Ricci is one of three chaplains at the Monastery of the Incarnation.
St. Pantaleon, a native of Nicomedia in Turkey, was a Christian doctor martyred on July 27, 305, during the Diocletian persecution. The small portion of his blood venerated in Spain was taken from Ravello, Italy, where the largest vial of his blood is kept.
Fr. Ricci explained that the blood has liquefied each year since it was brought from Italy.
Many of those who come to the monastery to witness the miracle pray to St. Pantaleon for healing from illness.
“A terminally ill child was brought from the Nino Jesus Hospital by his father and was inexplicably cured after the prioress of the cloistered convent touched the sick child with the vial,” said one of the monastery’s caretakers.
Two large television screens were set up outside the monastery to give the thousands of Catholics gathered a close-up view of the miraculous liquefaction.
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rather similar to the events in Naples (St Janarius)

alex73

Saw an amazing Monastary in Mt athos named after this saint. There is a big veneration in the east.