The Blood Of St. Januarius Liquefied In Naples - Three Days Later House Blows Up In Naples Killing Four! What?
St. Januarius’ blood liquefies in Naples on his feast day
The blood of St. Januarius liquefied on Thursday before a Mass in Naples, Italy, where the archbishop said that the blood of the fourth-century martyr is a powerful reminder that “love is stronger than death.”
Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples held up an ampoule containing the relic of the saint’s blood in the Naples cathedral on his feast day, revealing the liquefaction to shouts and cheers from the people who had waited in the cathedral since early in the morning.
“Every drop of this blood speaks to us of the love of God,” Battaglia said in his homily. “This blood is a sign of the blood of Christ, of his passion.”The archbishop recalled that Sept. 19 marks the anniversary of St. Januarius’ martyrdom more than 1,700 years ago in which the saint chose death in “fidelity to the Gospel” to show that the love of God is “stronger than death, violence, or any power.”
Hundreds of people gathered in Naples’ Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary for the feast of St. Januarius, known as San Gennaro in Italian. The saint was a Catholic bishop believed to have been martyred during the Christian persecution of Emperor Diocletian.
In Neapolitan lore, the failure of the blood to liquefy signals war, famine, disease, or other disasters. The reputed miracle usually occurs up to three times a year: Sept. 19, the saint’s feast day; the first Saturday of May, the day his remains were transferred to Naples; and Dec. 16, the anniversary of the 1631 eruption of the nearby Mount Vesuvius. Source
the failure of the blood to liquefy signals war, famine, disease, or other disasters.......
Three Days Later This Happens:
Four members of one family killed in Italy house collapse
Four members of the same family, including two young children, have died in a gas explosion in southern Italy.
Their two-storey home in the town of Saviano, near Naples, partially collapsed in the blast, killing the siblings - a boy and a girl - as well as their mother and grandmother.
The father and a newborn baby were recovered from the rubble alive, Italian firefighters said.
He remains in hospital in Naples in serious condition, while the baby's injuries are not life-threatening, local media reported.The Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s fire service, reported that the parents and three children lived on one floor of the property, while another woman - said to be the grandmother - lived on the floor above.
“Firefighters recovered the father and a newborn baby alive, entrusting them to the care of the health workers on site, while they could do nothing for the two children, a boy and a girl, whose bodies were unfortunately recovered lifeless,” The Vigili del Fuoco said in a statement.
While authorities have not confirmed the ages of the children, local media reported that they were four and six.
The explosion occurred at around 07:00 local time (06:00 BST), the Vigili del Fuoco said.
Firefighters found the children and father in the morning, then spent the day searching through the rubble, not locating the mother until 16:45.
Firefighters’ spokesman Luca Cari told reporters during the day that rescuers had to be “very careful and move slowly, to avoid new collapses” as they searched, the Associated Press reported.
Search and rescue teams, operating with sniffer dogs, continued the search for the grandmother into the night, announcing they had found her and had wrapped up the search at 01:00.
Investigations are continuing into the exact cause of the building's collapse, but early theories suggest the house collapsed after a gas explosion. Source
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