As Catholics, we believe in the Real Presence, whereby Jesus Christ is made literally present in a consecrated Host through transubstantiation.

“Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.'” – John 6:53-54

Since its earliest inception, many have been intensely skeptical of the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence. However, over the centuries there have been many reports and accounts of the Host miraculously turning into physical flesh and blood. When studies were performed on these miraculous Hosts, along with relics of Christ, an astonishing discovery was made – the same blood type was found every time – type AB+.

The earliest recorded event of a consecrated Host miraculously turning into physical flesh and blood dates back to the 8th century in the city of Lanciano, Italy. Called the Miracle of Lanciano, a monk was skeptical about the Real Presence and transubstantiation. When he celebrated Mass and said the Words of Consecration with doubt in his soul and heart, before the monks eyes he saw the the Host changed into living flesh and the wine change into coagulated blood.

In 1971, scientists performed a study on these relics which had been perfectly preserved throughout the ages. The Host was human heart tissue with the blood typeAB+, the rarest of all. The blood was found to have no preservatives, and also was blood type AB+.

Another miraculous occurrence took place in 1996, when a women in Buenos Aires found a desecrated Host in a candle holder in her parish church. She turned the Host into her priest who went to dissolve it into water per Canon Law. When the priest went to do so, the Host turned into flesh and blood. 3 years later, the Bishop of Buenos Aires sent the host to the US for testing. The results came back the same – human heart tissue with blood type AB+. At the time, the Bishop of Buenos Aires was Jorge Bergoglio – Pope Francis.

Additional tests of trace amounts of blood on the Shroud of Turin along with traces from the Shroud of Oviedo (the cloth wrapped around Christs face shortly after his death) also were shown to be of blood type AB, lending credence to the evidence that Christs blood type was AB, and Hosts literally turn into His flesh and blood when consecrated.

Amazing coincidence or proof? Blood type AB+ is the universal recipient for blood transfusions, and all tested Hosts were found to be heart tissue. As we know, Christ will receive anyone into His heart who is willing.

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  2. A bibliography of sources would be awesome for such “scientific” journalism. Who did the studies. How did they obtain samples, etc. There are over 180 approved Eucharistic miracles; many have the transoformation of the host to flesh and wine to true blood. You only speak of 2 and then generalize. Not really good reporting. As a fellow scientist, a well documented scientific evaluation would be much more welcome than this. This is a good start but is quite lacking.

  3. THERE WAS ONCE A MASS AT ST LEO THE GREAT CHURCH IN CHICAGO, KIDS WERE MAKING THEIR HOLY COMMUNION AND (MY AUNT JANE WAS ONE OF THEM) WHERE THE CHRIST CHILD APPEARED TO THE CHILDREN, IT WAS INVESTIGATED BY HE CHURCH AND THE CHILDREN WERE QUESTIONED AS TO WHAT THEY SAW, SOME SAW THE BABY JESUS UP ON THE ALTER SOME SAW JUST THE FEET AND SOME SAW OTHER FORMS OF THE APPARATION. MY AUNT JANE SAID SHE SAW THE FEET. THERE WAS A HOLY CARD ISSUED ON THIS…SOMEWHERE IN MY FAMILES POSSESSION IS THIS CARD. I AM SURE THE CHURCH HAS RECORDS OF THIS SOMEWHERE.

  10. Interesting, but not necessary. There’s a multitude of evidence, even scientific, which can lend no doubt to the presence of God and his manifestation as Jesus. As Scottr mentions, more testing across more samples are needed to bring credence to this article.
    In the end, God is amazing in His glory, mercy and love. As our Creator, the magnitude of depth involved in making everything around us not only work, but exist in such flawless function is beyond comprehension. We don’t need anything other than to really look at everything in front of us to see our Father’s real miracles.

  11. I always believed a Study such as this should Commence,…Hence one has. The Findings in our Church as to Blood from Miraculous Relics should go foward and find an Exact DNA for further Scientific evidence. As our faith is concermed we believe the True presence of Christ is present in the Eucharist so further Study for our own Belief in Christ’ presence is not necessary. However we also believe that you can openly Study Science and be a Devout member of the CATHOLIC Family as well. Further evidence will naturally commence I’am sure Yet may we remain faithful as we Realize the GREATEST giver of Science and Wonders yet not discovered is Our Lord. Not the GREATEST minds.

  12. I always known that I was born into the only and true faith am Glad to be a Catholic Christian please the dowthing Thomas take note and all should turn to the only true faith

    • In transfusions of packed red blood cells, individuals with type O Rh D negative blood are often called universal donors. Those with type AB Rh D positive blood are called universal recipients. … For transfusions of plasma, this situation is reversed.

  17. The wave of vampirism has any connection with it? We do not found vampirism among others cultures or civilization. Flesh blood is used in some cerimonies of Brazilian afro religion called candomblé. To them blood contains a misterious force called Axé.

  19. Probably the result of a well deserved tweaking of people’s thinking by the Almighty with the objective that they think a bit more about Christ’s presence on earth on the cross and in the Eucharist now. Wonder how many will take Him up on the invitation.

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  24. You say Jesus blood was AB- and you say that this blood type is the universal donor!
    Universal donor is RH negative O. Please check it out as it is an important error that you have made!
    AB- is a very rare blood but not to be given to others!

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