I am often told that Religion has no place in science. Oddly enough, science has not only formed my faith; science has sealed my Faith.
Most Christians have heard of the Shroud of Turin, the ancient relic that bears the image of a crucified male. Blood typing has been done on the Shroud, and it was determined that the crucified male, who many believe to be Jesus of Nazareth, has AB blood.
A lesser know relic is the Sudarium of Oviedo, the cloth, that tradition teaches, covered the face of Jesus before He was wrapped in a burial shroud and laid in the tomb. The blood on this cloth is also from a male and also Type AB.
There has also been several miracles where a consecrated Host miraculously became true flesh and began to bleed true blood.
One such miracle occurred in the 8th century.
A priest in Lanciano, Italy was doubting the real presence in the Eucharist while offering Mass, when suddenly the Eucharist miraculously turned into human flesh and blood.
Similarly, 500 years after the miracle of Lanciano, another priest, in Orvieto, Italy, who was also doubting the real presence of Jesus, similarly experienced a Eucharistic miracle where the host started bleeding all over his corporal (a cloth used in the liturgy).
You can still see the cloth on display in the Cathedral of Orvieto and the non-decomposing flesh and blood in the Church of San Francesco today.
Miracle of Buenos Aires
More recently, in 1996, another Eucharistic miracle occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina when a consecrated Host was found on the ground and placed in a glass of water to dissolve, as is custom.
Days later, the Eucharist hadn’t dissolved at all — it had, however, turned into bloody Flesh.
The Cardinal and then-Bishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) had a photograph taken of the bloody Host, then stored the Host in a tabernacle to decompose.
Three years later, that same bloody Flesh remained!
That’s when Dr. Ricardo Castañón, a Bolivian neurophysiologist, was called in to have samples from the Host examined in a laboratory environment.
Doctor Castañón took it to the San Francisco Forensic Institute without telling anyone there what it was or where it came from. After testing, he was told the samples constituted heart muscle, specifically from the myocardium of the left ventricle.
Further, the tests showed the blood was human, with human DNA, and of the AB type — the same as found on the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo. Upon further investigation, he also discovered the Host from the miracle of Lanciano was Blood Type AB, as well!
Coincidence? Maybe?
But consider this: Blood Types were not discovered until 1900. The discovery of Blood Type AB came along seven years later, in 1907. Maybe because it’s so rare? Only four-percent of the World population has Blood Type AB.
Well, here’s where it gets interesting…
Where Science and Theology Merge
The Eucharist is the sacrament of communion with one another in the one body of Christ, writes Rev. Dr. Stany Antony OMI. This, he continued, was the full meaning of eucharistic koinonia in the early Church.
Scriptures appears to be in agreement.
St. Paul tells us in 1 Cor 10:16-17 that we just don’t participate in the Eucharist, we are in communion in the blood of Christ. “…nonne communicatio sanguinis?” as it is written in the Latin Vulgate; κοινωνία or koinonia in Greek.
Early Church Father and Orator, St. John Chrysostom (c. 349 – 407) commenting on Paul’s words, — almost 1500 years before the discovery of blood types — said this:
The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the Body of Christ?
Wherefore said he not, the participation? Because he intended to express something more and to point out how close was the union: in that we communicate not only by participating and partaking, but also by being united. For as that body is united to Christ, so also are we united to Him by this bread. (Homily 24 on First Corinthians: 4)
In 1485, more than 400 years before the classification of blood based on the presence and absence of antibodies, St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, “…the Eucharist is the sacrament of the unity of the Church, which results from the fact that many are one in Christ”.
In 1566, almost 300 years before science established the ABO Blood Group System, the Church had this to say about the Eucharist:
“For what bread and wine are to the body, the Eucharist is to the health and delight of the soul, but in a higher and better way. This Sacrament is not, like bread and wine, changed into our substance; but we are, in some wise, changed into its nature, so that we may well apply here the words of St. Augustine: I am the food of the frown. Grow and thou shalt eat Me; nor shalt thou change Me into thee, as thy bodily food, but thou shalt be changed into Me.”
In other words, “by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body.” (Cathecism 1331).
Or simply put, “He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me and I in you” (John 6:56)
So, what’s this have to do with Blood Typing?
You see, I, like many, once believed that Jesus’ Body and Blood just enters our body during Holy Communion. However, if that was the true theology of the Eucharist, Jesus’ divine Blood Type could be not AB.
Why?
Because theologically if Jesus’ Blood just enters us, He would be simply donating His sacred blood to all.
Science has shown that only Universal Donors can give blood to all without any harm to the recipient; only people with Blood Type O. However, with Blood Type O, one could not receive blood from any other type, but their own.
The Church has always taught that during Holy Communion we unite with The Body of Christ.
Simply put, Jesus receives us all, body and soul, and unites us all, body and soul, in Him — and by all bodies, I mean all blood types.
Christ is therefore the Universal Acceptor, theologically and biologically. Anyone who took High School Biology knows blood type of the universal acceptor.
That blood type is … AB Blood.
If the Shroud of Turin is a fake, how would the forgers get Jesus’ Blood Type theologically correct — centuries before science knew blood type existed?
Further, if these Eucharistic miracles were also all staged, how would all these Blood Types not just match, but also coincide theologically and biologically?
Coincidence?
Maybe, but the odds would favor coincidence to favor the most popular Blood Type.
Approximately, 47% of Italians have Blood Type O, while less than 4% share AB. In Argentina, where the most recent miracle took place, half the population is Blood Type O. [note]
When you include Rh factors, the statistic of chance is almost eliminated.
Rh factor was discovered after the discovery of Blood Types — 40 years after! Only five percent of the world population is AB-positive … the same Blood Type in the Eucharistic miracles in Buenos Aires and Lanciano — miracles which occurred 1,300 years apart.
The science is clear — and because it’s clear, my Faith is sealed.
James Henry is the author of Corporation YOU: A Business Plan for the Soul, the book series Hail Mary. and two children books: The Second Prince and Klaus: The Gift-giver to All. For six years, James taught At-Risk kids in Los Angeles. Today, he lives in New York where he continues to write — and teach. To contact James or book an interview, please contact Mark of Goldman & McCormick PR at (516) 639-0988 or Mark@goldmanmccormick.com.
Articles used to write this piece:
The Eucharist and Its Effects – James H. Dobbins
Christ, Our Food and Our Life: Chapter 12
Eucharist: Communion with God and Communion with one another – Rev. Dr. Stany Antony OMI
Two eucharistic miracles 1,300 years apart show same blood type and DNA – Ryan Fitzgerald • ChurchMilitant.com
The Divine Blood Type: Revealed by “Coincidence” of Eucharistic Miracles? • ChurchPOP
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Also ABis the blood of His Mother Maryam from the lineage and the House of David.He only had His Mothers blood in Him as He had no earthly Father – only His Heavenly Father. So Mary’s blood was also AB when she lived in earth 2000 years ago.
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Too materialistic a view. The resurrected body of Christ which is well and truly received in the Eucharist was transformed such that it could pass through doors etc. It is no longer subject to the ‘space-time continuum’ if you will. It is Real but Spiritual. i.e. non physical as we understand physicality
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That is the whole point of the Resurrection… It is indeed the resurrection of his physical body. Just because Christ can pass through closed doors etc. does not mean that He has not a physical body. That is why he told Thomas to touch the wound on his side to show that he is indeed in possession of His physical body.
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His blood has to be accepted by all. He does not recieve life from us, we recieve from him He is rh o negative, thank you. we all take from him. he does not take our communion. we take his
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I think Jesus was Blood type O negative. Because we are united to him by consuming his flesh and blood. Word for word he is a giver of men. We become part of him and he becomes part of us. It’s quite obvious it’s type O negative. The AB blood doesn’t make sense why would he be a universal acceptor.
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I think Jesus was Blood type O negative. Because we are united to him by consuming his flesh and blood. Word for word he is a giver of men. We become part of him and he becomes part of us. It’s quite obvious it’s type O negative. We accept Christ into our hearts. The AB blood doesn’t make sense.
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You had me until the last lines — Christ would have been Rh POSITIVE under all your reasoning presented!! Agreed with AB group, but AB+, not AB-. Blood types are based on presence or absence of antibodies (which cause REJECTION). When we take Communion, we are transformed to become Part of the Body of Christ… Therefore, HE must have NO antibodies at all. My Jesus ACCEPTS everyone who comes to him. He must be Rh positive — or this Doctor’s O-pos would be Rejected by her Messiah!!!
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Is blood type AB negative a universal recipient? I thought that RH negatives couldn’t receive RH positive blood.
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Jesus was AB positive it makes absolute sense that is why it is rare and cannot be given to anyone else only the deserved ones of which there are few and only these few would fight against the satanical pollution of their bodies that the majority of you are all willing to do. That is one of the reasons you come on sights like this and even deny his blood group like you denied him when he was here.
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Blood Type AB is a universal receiver of any and all other blood types, which makes Jesus a savior of all men, no matter what your blood type is. Just ask him to come into your heart and he will. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 (KJV)
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You had me until the last lines — Christ would have been Rh POSITIVE under all your reasoning presented!! Agreed with AB group, but AB+, not AB-. Blood types are based on presence or absence of antibodies (which cause REJECTION). When we take Communion, we are transformed to become Part of the Body of Christ… Therefore, HE must have NO antibodies at all. My Jesus ACCEPTS everyone who comes to him. He must be Rh positive — or this Doctor’s O-neg blood would be Rejected by her Messiah!!!
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You are correct — and I misread the data. As you can see from the link to the Buenos Aires article CLEARLY states the blood was AB+. Thank you!
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his blood typing was [ A B O ] with a RH factor[ ?] there for since he is part of all of us and could heal with his words like our cells were being command by his single thought of connection,or his higher being .this would not happen if he did not have a connection with all the blood cell types in his body his higher being would not connect with blood type that he was not related to .Come on people get it together here . its think out side the box or just make a simple question to a simple answer
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Jesus blood is supernatural, human reasoning fall short but only with the eyes of my faith.
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O- Negative blood can not receive positive blood not matter what type A+,B+,O+,or AB+. O- blood is the “purest” blood type. It can give to all but only receive it’s own type. Jesus was a giver not a receiver. You are correct about science and faith merging if you believe what I just wrote.
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I am a practising catholic, but although I believe in the miracles of the consagrated host becoming the blood of Christ, you are completely wrong regards the properties of AB blood. People with AB blood (I have AB blood type) can have blood from ALL blood types, BUT can give blood to only those with AB blood. Your statement was completely opposite to reality. This type of misinformation does more harm to our faith than anything eles. It makes prople who have doubts disbelieve the actualy miracles.
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It seems you might’ve misread something. The text clearly states, “Christ is therefore the Universal Acceptor, theologically and biologically. Anyone who took High School Biology knows blood type of the universal acceptor. That blood type is … AB Blood.” Pax Christi.
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[…] THE THEOLOGY OF JESUS’S BLOOD TYPEJames Henry I am often told that Religion has no place in science. Oddly enough, science has not only formed my faith; science has sealed my Faith.Most Christians have heard of the Shroud of Turin, the ancient relic that bears the image of a crucified male. Blood typing has been done on the Shroud, and it was determined that the crucified male, who many believe to be Jesus of Nazareth, has AB blood.A lesser know relic is the Sudarium of Oviedo, the cloth, that tradition teaches, covered the face of Jesus before He was wrapped in a burial shroud and laid in the tomb. The blood on this cloth is also from a male and also Type AB.There has also been several miracles where a consecrated Host miraculously became true flesh and began to bleed true blood.One such miracle occurred in the 8th century.A priest in Lanciano, Italy was doubting the real presence in the Eucharist while offering Mass, when suddenly the Eucharist miraculously turned into human flesh and blood.Similarly, 500 years after the miracle of Lanciano, another priest, in Orvieto, Italy, who was also doubting the real presence of Jesus, similarly experienced a Eucharistic miracle where the host started bleeding all over his corporal (a cloth used in the liturgy).You can still see the cloth on display in the Cathedral of Orvieto and the non-decomposing flesh and blood in the Church of San Francesco today.MIRACLE OF BUENOS AIRESMore recently, in 1996, another Eucharistic miracle occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina when a consecrated Host was found on the ground and placed in a glass of water to dissolve, as is custom.Days later, the Eucharist hadn’t dissolved at all — it had, however, turned into bloody Flesh.The Cardinal and then-Bishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) had a photograph taken of the bloody Host, then stored the Host in a tabernacle to decompose.Three years later, that same bloody Flesh remained!That’s when Dr. Ricardo Castañón, a Bolivian neurophysiologist, was called in to have samples from the Host examined in a laboratory environment.Doctor Castañón took it to the San Francisco Forensic Institute without telling anyone there what it was or where it came from. After testing, he was told the samples constituted heart muscle, specifically from the myocardium of the left ventricle.Further, the tests showed the blood was human, with human DNA, and of the AB type — the same as found on the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo. Upon further investigation, he also discovered the Host from the miracle of Lanciano was Blood Type AB, as well!Coincidence? Maybe?But consider this: Blood Types were not discovered until 1900. The discovery of Blood Type AB came along seven years later, in 1907. Maybe because it’s so rare? Only four-percent of the World population has Blood Type AB.Well, here’s where it gets interesting…WHERE SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY MERGEThe Eucharist is the sacrament of communion with one another in the one body of Christ, writes Rev. Dr. Stany Antony OMI. This, he continued, was the full meaning of eucharistic koinonia in the early Church.Scriptures appears to be in agreement.St. Paul tells us in 1 Cor 10:16-17 that we just don’t participate in the Eucharist, we are in communion in the blood of Christ. “…nonne communicatio sanguinis?” as it is written in the Latin Vulgate; κοινωνία or koinonia in Greek.Early Church Father and Orator, St. John Chrysostom (c. 349 – 407) commenting on Paul’s words, — almost 1500 years before the discovery of blood types — said this:The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the Body of Christ? Wherefore said he not, the participation? Because he intended to express something more and to point out how close was the union: in that we communicate not only by participating and partaking, but also by being united. For as that body is united to Christ, so also are we united to Him by this bread. (Homily 24 on First Corinthians: 4)In 1485, more than 400 years before the classification of blood based on the presence and absence of antibodies, St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, “…the Eucharist is the sacrament of the unity of the Church, which results from the fact that many are one in Christ”.In 1566, almost 300 years before science established the ABO Blood Group System, the Church had this to say about the Eucharist:“For what bread and wine are to the body, the Eucharist is to the health and delight of the soul, but in a higher and better way. This Sacrament is not, like bread and wine, changed into our substance; but we are, in some wise, changed into its nature, so that we may well apply here the words of St. Augustine: I am the food of the frown. Grow and thou shalt eat Me; nor shalt thou change Me into thee, as thy bodily food, but thou shalt be changed into Me.”In other words, “by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body.” (Cathecism 1331).Or simply put, “He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me and I in you” (John 6:56)So, what’s this have to do with Blood Typing?You see, I, like many, once believed that Jesus’ Body and Blood just enters our body during Holy Communion. However, if that was the true theology of the Eucharist, Jesus’ divine Blood Type could be not AB.Why ?Because theologically if Jesus’ Blood just enters us, He would be simply donating His sacred blood to all.Science has shown that only Universal Donors can give blood to all without any harm to the recipient; only people with Blood Type O. However, with Blood Type O, one could not receive blood from any other type, but their own.The Church has always taught that during Holy Communion we unite with The Body of Christ.Simply put, Jesus receives us all, body and soul, and unites us all, body and soul, in Him — and by all bodies, I mean all blood types.Christ is therefore the Universal Acceptor, theologically and biologically. Anyone who took High School Biology knows blood type of the universal acceptor.That blood type is … AB Blood.If the Shroud of Turin is a fake, how would the forgers get Jesus’ Blood Type theologically correct — centuries before science knew blood type existed?Further, if these Eucharistic miracles were also all staged, how would all these Blood Types not just match, but also coincide theologically and biologically?Coincidence ?Maybe, but the odds would favor coincidence to favor the most popular Blood Type.Approximately, 47% of Italians have Blood Type O, while less than 4% share AB. In Argentina, where the most recent miracle took place, half the population is Blood Type O. [note]When you include Rh factors, the statistic of chance is almost eliminated.Rh factor was discovered after the discovery of Blood Types — 40 years after! Only five percent of the world population is AB-positive … the same Blood Type in the Eucharistic miracles in Buenos Aires and Lanciano — miracles which occurred 1,300 years apart.The science is clear — and because it’s clear, my Faith is sealed.SOURCEhttps://corporationyou.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/the-theology-of-jesus-blood-type/ […]
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i was tested and my blood type came back as ( A B O) RH (d) now i dont know what this means . i do know they had my mothoer sign a waver because i can have know other blood or organ doner i find strange .
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