In Lanciano, Italy, in the eighth century, a priest of the order of St. Basil celebrated the Mass in the Church of the Saints Degoncian and Domitian. After the Consecration, the Host became flesh and the wine in blood inside the chalice. Blood clotted in clumps, clots, just like clots of human blood. This Host transformed into flesh and blood were placed in a shrine and exposed in the church for centuries. And even today, even after 1,300 years, this flesh and blood remains intact and incorrupt! In 1970 and 1971 and again in 1981, this piece of meat and the clots were rigorously analyzed by Professor Odoardo Linoli, Teacher of Anatomy and Pathological Histology and Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy and Teacher Ruggero Bertelli of the University of Siena. Results:
1) The host is actually composed of striated muscle fibers belonging to the myocardium of a human heart.
2) The blood is genuine human blood. The characteristics of the blood are as if withdrawn at that very moment, from a human being still alive! And still: the blood contained in the flesh and the blood of the chalice reveal to be always the same blood group 'AB' (blood most common to the Jews). This is also the group that Professor Pierluigi Baima Bollone, of the University of Turin, identified on the Holy Shroud.
3) Despite its antiquity, the flesh and blood have a intact structure and show no sign of substantial change, despite the action of the most varied physical, atmospheric, environmental and biological agents in the church in which they were preserved.
4) The five clots have different sizes, but they have the same weight: 16.505g. But when they were weighed together, the same weight appeared on the scale: 16.505g! And the same happened when only two or three of them were weighed: the weight was always the same! This is an inexplicable fact that happened to these blood clots in all the precision scales where they were weighed.
"Glorious Saint Matthew, you who had great humility to follow Jesus, enlighten all who feel the call of him, for your example, leave everything and follow in the footsteps of the Divine Master. You also called your publican friends to know Jesus, help us to be witnesses before our family, friends and neighbors so that we can lead those who need more to Jesus who is the way, true and life. You wrote the Gospel of the Lord, help us to write the Gospel in our lives through ou