I'm Covered with the Blood of Jesus

Technique: Bacterial Sculpture

Size: 100 x 70 cm

 

Metropolitan Curia of Bialystok announces that the Ecclesial Commission appointed by Archbishop Edward Ozorowski (on 30 March 2009) to investigate the phenomena of the Eucharist in Sokóka has just completed its work. It examined and interrogated witnesses and patho-morphology experts. On 12 October 2008 a consecrated host fell out of the hands of a priest distributing a Holy Communion. He picked it up and placed it in a vasculum in the tabernacle. After the Mass, the vasculum with it's contents was transferred to safety in the sacristy.
   On 19 October 2008 after opening the safe one could see a red stain on the host, giving the impression of a bloodstain. On 29 October 2008 the vessel with the host was transferred to the tabernacle in the chapel of the rectory. Next day the host was removed from the water and placed on the corporal in the tabernacle. On the 7th January 2009 the sample from the Host was taken and examined independently by two professionals in patho-morphology of the Medical University, Bialystok. They issued a common statement as follows: "the sample sent to assess (...) in our opinion looks like the myocardial tissue, at least of all the tissues of living organisms it most resembles." Prof. Maria Sobaniec-Lotowska and Prof. Stanislaw Sulkowski. The Commission found that the host, which was sampled for the assessment is the same that has been moved from the sacristy to the tabernacle in the chapel of the rectory. Third party intervention was not found. The files of this case were submitted to the Apostolic Nunciature in Warsaw. The case of Sokolka does not oppose the faith of the Church, rather confirms it. The church believes that the words of consecration, by the power of the Holy Spirit, transform a bread into the body of Christ and wine into his blood. It also provides a call to ministers of the Holy Communion to distribute the body of Christ with faith and attention and to the faithful - to receive It with reverence.

 

Special thanks to Dr. Michael Sauer, Dipl. Natw. ETH, Stefanie Müller and the Institute for applied Microbiology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

 

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