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He “Miracle” of the reliquary of San Genaro in Naples, Italy, usually occurs three times a year, for important religious dates. The supposed blood of the saint, which accumulates in a solid state, turns into liquid when a priest shakes the piece before the faithful.
This tradition takes place on Saturday before the first Sunday in May; he September 19th for his patronal feast and anniversary of his death; and the December 16, when the saint would have saved Naples from an eruption of Vesuvius.
Therefore, this past Wednesday Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe shook the reliquary at the liturgy in the morning… and nothing happened. They tried again at 7:40 p.m. and it didn’t work either.
He “Failed miracle” has caused panic in Naples, where it is feared that this fact is an omen that a tragedy is coming. “We only needed San Genaro to fail”Citizens expressed in the Italian newspaper Il Mattino, according to the Spanish newspaper ABC.
And it is that this ruling coincides with a previous time in which the blood was not liquefied: on December 16, 1835, which was a leap year (same as 2020)
Back then, it was believed that this could spell a bad omen, and in 1836 a cholera epidemic arrived which caused more than 5,000 deaths that year, and 13,000 the next.
Perhaps many do not believe in these coincidences, but there are many people who do have faith in the event, explains Il Mattino, according to ABC, the Neapolitan anthropologist and science communicator Marino Niola.
“San Genaro, the Maradona de los santos has missed a penalty (…) I know perfectly well that it can appear difficult, to external observers, to understand such unconditional devotion: here (the miracle of San Genaro) is a symbol, a point of reference, a safe harbor for each inhabitant of the city“, He maintains. That is why there is concern about the failed miracle.
San Genaro was born in Naples in the third century and died on September 19, 305, after being beheaded by order of the Emperor Diocletian. The date of his death coincides with the liquefaction of the presumed blood.
It has not been scientifically proven that the locket actually contains the saint’s blood.
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