In 1995 in cochambamba a small hollow plaster statue of the form of the famous Christ of Limpias was purchased from a store and set up in a prayer room.
It began to weep and bleed.
It was recorded over many months on live time stamped footage by a tv crew, so there was no reasonable possibility of tampering.
Samples were taken several times over the period and forensically analyzed multiple times in multiple forensic labs by pathologists whose normal day job was criminology. The samples showed human blood and human epithelial skin tissue, smashed up as if by a beating.
The samples showed white cells which congregate around traumatized tissue. Those white cells should not live for more than hours post mortem or in vitro, but they were clearly there, indicating recently or actually living tissue.
Whilst there was much human DNA and tests for human blood and tissue passed, , it did not produce an identity profile on the number of occasision (which for those who do not know, is a count of the repeats of various parts of redundant DNA. As if this human was "bar code 0". A fraud would show whose blood had been sprinkled on it. So it was not blood placed there by a donor.
Only once (and years later) did it reveal a DNA identity of the owner (hardly suprising because of the handling) .
Much later the technology allowed for single cell mitochondrial DNA testing
The it did yield mitochondrial DNA which comes from a mother, indicating middle eastern group nothing to do with the owner..
Perhaps the most surprising finding was vegetative matter found in the mashed up epithelial cells which was consistent with thorn.
Even if the blood results could be explained (they cannot) CT scans of the statue showed no pathways allowing a fraud to "pump" blood.
The blood appeared in real time on timestamped footage.
It is impossible to explain or explain away.
To follow up there are videos by Ron Tesoriero including interviews with the numerous forensic scientists involved.
Check out his site on reasontobelieve .com .au
But like most of these phenomena, the media said little about it.
Not all of these weeping or bleeding statues are "real". Some are provable fraud. Take the bleeding statue of civatecchia was shown to have blood DNA of the owner! But cochambamba is beyond reasonable doubt the real deal. Scientifically inexplicable in a christian context.
For avid readers the history of the original crucifix of limpias that writhed with agony in Limpias spain a century ago (several books written at the time ) drawing attention to Christs torment on the cross.
It began to weep and bleed.
It was recorded over many months on live time stamped footage by a tv crew, so there was no reasonable possibility of tampering.
Samples were taken several times over the period and forensically analyzed multiple times in multiple forensic labs by pathologists whose normal day job was criminology. The samples showed human blood and human epithelial skin tissue, smashed up as if by a beating.
The samples showed white cells which congregate around traumatized tissue. Those white cells should not live for more than hours post mortem or in vitro, but they were clearly there, indicating recently or actually living tissue.
Whilst there was much human DNA and tests for human blood and tissue passed, , it did not produce an identity profile on the number of occasision (which for those who do not know, is a count of the repeats of various parts of redundant DNA. As if this human was "bar code 0". A fraud would show whose blood had been sprinkled on it. So it was not blood placed there by a donor.
Only once (and years later) did it reveal a DNA identity of the owner (hardly suprising because of the handling) .
Much later the technology allowed for single cell mitochondrial DNA testing
The it did yield mitochondrial DNA which comes from a mother, indicating middle eastern group nothing to do with the owner..
Perhaps the most surprising finding was vegetative matter found in the mashed up epithelial cells which was consistent with thorn.
Even if the blood results could be explained (they cannot) CT scans of the statue showed no pathways allowing a fraud to "pump" blood.
The blood appeared in real time on timestamped footage.
It is impossible to explain or explain away.
To follow up there are videos by Ron Tesoriero including interviews with the numerous forensic scientists involved.
Check out his site on reasontobelieve .com .au
But like most of these phenomena, the media said little about it.
Not all of these weeping or bleeding statues are "real". Some are provable fraud. Take the bleeding statue of civatecchia was shown to have blood DNA of the owner! But cochambamba is beyond reasonable doubt the real deal. Scientifically inexplicable in a christian context.
For avid readers the history of the original crucifix of limpias that writhed with agony in Limpias spain a century ago (several books written at the time ) drawing attention to Christs torment on the cross.
