On February 23, 2022, hours before the world learned of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the statue of the Archangel Michael, the patron saint of the capital Kiev, began to ooze a substance. Dark liquid, looks like blood.
A clip was shared on Facebook about this incident, which quickly became a hot topic attracting a lot of attention.
Statue of the Archangel Michael, seemingly oozing, blood-like liquid. Photo: Alicia Martinez
Alicia Martinez, 57, of Broomfield, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, is the owner of this statue. In an interview conducted in Spanish with CNA, she described the experience as "inexplicable".
She was talking to a friend on the phone, when one of her roommates knocked on her bedroom door and told her to come take a look. “I asked him what was wrong, but he just stood there, shaking his feet,” she recounted.
That's when she saw her statue of the Archangel Michael, bleeding from the right side of her head. Ms. Martinez, from Zacatecas, Mexico, describes: “He did not cry. He is bleeding from his forehead. [Blood] flows around the eyes. Blood did not enter your eyes.”
She also added, “Blood drips like when a person cuts a hand, causing blood to gush out; And rightfully so."
Stunned, speechless, all she could do was ask God what was going on. "I prayed, 'God, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but something really happened,'" Ms. Martinez said. “I have a hunch, this is not a bad thing. This hunch is inexplicable, but it's soothing, enjoyable."
Still, there's still a lot of confusion about her experience, Martinez called a friend of hers, a priest in Mexico. The priest told her that this was not a bad thing. And he also advised her to pray more, that what was happening was miraculous, that her home was blessed.
Also a friend, a nun, told Ms. Martinez that the streak of blood would not stop until it reached the head of the demon that the Archangel Michael was trampling on. The nearly 30-inch-tall statue was bleeding like this every day for a week, and the flow only stopped when it reached the head of the demon depicted in the statue.
Mark Haas, public relations director for the Archdiocese of Denver, told CNA news agency March 7 that the archdiocese "was recently notified of this incident and we will investigate."
In an interview with the Spanish news agency, Primer Impacto, Monsignor Jorge de Los Santos, parish priest of the parish of Our Lady of the Church in nearby Commerce, Colorado, said, “Before the Church. If the association can make an opinion, it will take a long time, a thorough and complicated investigation.”
Ms. Martinez was connected to a representative from the Archdiocese of Denver, who is in charge of cases involving miracles. If Ms. Martinez decides to continue to participate in the investigation, the specimens involved will be thoroughly investigated to see if miracles really happened.
After posting a clip related to the incident, on Facebook, Ms. Martinez, who works at a grocery store, received a number of comments that said: she is just a money-hungry who wants to be famous. Therefore, she took down this clip. She has repeatedly asserted that she had no intention of sharing the clip, but that it was "what really happened to them [to her and her roommates]."
“What I saw was real,” she said. Unexplainable things. There is no cheating, cheating or greed, fame here. No problem! I knew it was something divine from God, something that doesn't happen to everyone."
According to Catholicnewsagency/ Conggiao.vn
