On October 12, 2013, H.E. Most Rev. Alejo Zavala Castro, Bishop of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, announced through a Pastoral Letter the recognition of the Eucharistic Miracle that occurred at Tixtla, on October 21, 2006.
In the letter we read: "This manifestation brings to us a marvelous sign of the love of God that confirms the Real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist... In my role as Bishop of the Diocese I recognize the supernatural character of the series of events relating to the Bleeding Host of Tixtla...
I declare the case as a "Divine Sign ..."".
On October 21, 2006, the effusion of a reddish substance was noted from a consecrated Host during the Eucharistic Celebration at Tixtla, in the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa.
The Bishop of the place, Most Reverend Alejo Zavala Castro, then convened a Theological Commission of investigation and, in October 2009, he invited Doctor Ricardo Castañón Gómez, to take on the leadership of the program of scientific research whose purpose was in fact that of verifying the said event.
The Mexican Ecclesiastical authorities turned to Doctor Castañón Gómez because they were aware that, in the years 1999-2006, the scientist had conducted some studies on two consecrated Hosts that also bled in the Parish of Saint Mary of the Assumption in the Mexican case starts in October 2006, when Father Leopoldo Roque, pastor of the Parish of Saint Martin of Tours, invites Father Raymundo Reyna Esteban to lead a spiritual retreat for his parishioners.
As Father Leopoldo and another priest were distributing Communion, assisted by a religious sister who was to the left of Father Raymundo, this latter one turns towards him with the "pyx" containing the Sacred Particles, looking at Father with eyes filled with tears, an incident that immediately attracted the attention of the celebrant: the Host she had taken to give Communion to a lady parishioner had begun to effuse a reddish substance.
"The ecclesiastical authority wanted likewise to specify that in a Catholic context the Miracle distinguishes itself for the following aspects:
1. Theological: The intervention comes from God. It is of divine origin.
2. Objectivity: The 'alteration' of the causes or natural laws is evident.
3. Subjectivity: Whoever accepts the miracle 'recognizes or accepts' with an act of Faith that the extraordinary event comes from the loving Will of God.
4. Purpose: It has as its end the good of one or many people."
The scientific research conducted between October 2009 and October 2012 came to the following conclusions, presented on May 23, 2013 during the cause of an International Symposium held by the Diocese of Chilpancingo, on the occasion of the Year of Faith, and which saw the participation of millions of people coming from four continents
1. The reddish substance analyzed correspond to blood in which there are hemoglobin and DNA of human origin.
2. Two studies conducted by eminent forensic experts with different methodologies have shown that the substance originates from the interior, including the hypothesis that someone could have placed it from the exterior.
3. The blood type is AB similar to the one found in the Host of Lanciano and in the Holy Shroud of Turin.
4. A microscopic analysis of magnification and penetration reveals that the superior part of the blood has been coagulated since October 2006. Moreover, the underlying internal layers reveal, in February 2010, the presence of fresh blood.
5. They also found intact white blood cells, red blood cells, and active macrophages that engulf lipids. The same in question appears lacerated and with recovery mechanisms, exactly as occurs in a living tissue.
6. A further histopathological analysis determines the presence of protein structures in a state of deterioration, suggesting mesenchymal cells, any specialized cell, characterized by an elevated bio-physiological dynamism.
In all the microscopic study of digital images taken through the shooting of ultraviolet rays and intense white light it was demonstrated that the blood coagulated beyond some molecules of the white blood.
The analysis showed moreover that under the blood steady coagulated beyond some molecules of the white blood there was also the presence of fresh blood.
Also the analysis confirmed the fact that the blood was not placed by someone from the outside, since it originates from the interior of the Host (from 2006 to 2010) only in the interval part of the Host.
Professor John Cantagaro, one of the prominent histopathologists in the study, declared that there was the presence of mesenchymal cells and of tissue repair that would be expected only in living blood cells, but to arrive to say that it was heart muscle further exams had to be done and the result arrived only after 2 years.
Professor John Fontanini of Frascati Monogram University (author of one of the photos taken of the sample of the miraculous Host, how the presence of longitudinal fibrular structures is evident. By observing the image taken with ultraviolet ray, it was made evident, which is typical of the muscular cardiac fiber, that it of the heart.
Photo of Father Raymondo Ruete Ranchus, protagonist of the Eucharistic Miracle of Tixtla.
The Case Ex experta laboratory in Bolivia performed another study and confirmed that it was human blood of the type AB just like the one found in the Host of Turin and of the Eucharistic Miracle that occurred in Lanciano in 700 AD.
When there is the presence of human DNA one thinks that also the genetic profile discovered in the blood. However the analysis confirmed that it was unusual blood in the unidentified Host and, having the DNA was found, the sequencing to correct the genetic profile was done, they were never able to obtain it.
The conclusion is that even though there was blood on the Host that did not belong to the father in the Holy Spirit, it is not possible to obtain his genetic profile.
(Myscaridium). On account of the scientific results and the conclusions reached by the theological committee, last October 12 the Bishop of Chilpancingo, his Eminence also Zavala Castro, announced the following: