Milan, 16 December (LaPresse) – The prodigy of the liquefaction of the blood of the patron saint of Naples, San Gennaro, was repeated at 5.43pm. The liquefaction of the blood contained in the ampulla was announced by Monsignor Vincenzo De Gregorio, Abbot of the Chapel of San Gennaro. The blood of the saint, contained in an ampulla and kept in the reliquary inside the Chapel in the cathedral church of Naples, melts on three different occasions. The first of these is the Saturday before the first Sunday in May, when the saint's relics were transferred from Pozzuoli to Naples; the second is the ‘miracle’ of 19 September, the anniversary of the beheading of the bishop of Benevento; the third is the one that falls on 16 December: on that day, in 1631, during the eruption of Vesuvius, the blood melted, stopping the lava that was otherwise on the outskirts of the city of Naples, which would otherwise have been destroyed.
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