Burning and Bleeding Host: A Eucharistic Miracle caught on camera

For video see: http://www.dsanford.com/miraclehost/hostvideo.wmv

THE BURNING, BLEEDING, BEATING HEART HOST
NOVEMBER 13, 1998
AUGUSTINIAN NUNS CHAPEL - LOS TEQUES, VENEZUELA

Filmed on RCA Camcorder by pilgrim Dan Sanford of N. J.

This film is actually a Miracle within a Miracle. The first miracle occurred in Betania, Venezuela, on December 8, 1991 -- Feast of the Immaculate Conception during the celebration of the Holy Mass at midnight. The celebrant, Father Otty Ossa Arstiza'bal, Betania Chaplain had just finished the Consecration, had broken the large Host into four pieces and took one piece of the Host for his consumption and placed the remaining portions on the plate on the altar. When he looked down at the remaining Host, to his amazement he saw a red substance coming out of the Host which he described as if it was spurting from a wound. He placed the Host in a Chalice and put it in the Tabernacle until 6 A. M. the next morning. When he looked at it again it was still bleeding so he placed it in a Monstrance and took it to show the people at Mass. Eyewitnesses saw the Host bleeding and blood accumulating on the bottom of the Monstrance and some filmed it on their camcorders. Bishop Ricardo of Los Teques was advised and he had the Host tested in Caracus and was told that the red substance was in fact Human Blood. Subsequently, the Miracle Host was taken to the convent of the Augustinian Nuns in Los Teques for safekeeping, adoration and visitation by pilgrims. This was the reason, Dan Sanford went to Los Teques on November 13, 1998, to see the Miraculous Bleeding Host and was when he filmed this second miraculous event concerning this Host.

Why visit Betania in the first place? Betania is the apparition site where mystic Maria Esperanza Bianchini experiences apparitions of the Blessed Mother. It is only the fourth site in the twentieth century approved by the Roman Catholic Church as a place worthy of pilgrimage and celebration of the sacraments of Mass and Reconciliation. Betania is also the only apparition site known in the world where others besides the visionary have seen the Blessed Mother. In March, 1984, 108 people experienced seeing the Blessed Mother at that site, beginning first with a group of children who excitedly reported to the adults that the Blessed Mother was in the trees near the jungle edge. The adults ran to the scene and also experienced seeing her. Their descriptions varied because they saw her under different titles. Some reported seeing her as Our Lady of Lourdes, others as the image of the Miraculous Medal and others as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Many cried and didn't know why they we! re crying. None were in a state of ecstasy or trance but were fully aware of their of their senses and surroundings. Our Lady appeared seven times that day for 10-15 minutes at a time to those present. Thereafter, the Bishop investigated the site and sent a letter to Rome on March 21, 1987 announcing his approval of Betania as a valid apparition site.

Who is Maria Esperanza Bianchini? Maria is a wife, mother of 7 children and a grandmother. Since she was a child she has experienced supernatural visitations from The Blessed Mother, Jesus and Saints. At age 5, she saw St. Theresa, The Little Flower; at age 12 the first visit from Blessed Mother and at age 14 The Blessed Mother told her about Betania. Being very religious, in 1954 she entered a convent but shortly later, on October 3, 1954, St. Theresa came to her and told her that her vocation in life was to become a wife and mother not a religious. She met her future husband in Rome and on December 8, 1956 they were married in Rome.

Maria had her first apparition of the Blessed Mother in Betania on March 25, 1976 and these were private apparitions. In 1978, Rome was advised of her situation. But on March 25, 1984, the Feast of the Annunciation, her apparitions changed from private to public when the 108 people also saw the Blessed Mother in Betania. Our Lady comes to Maria under the title of "Reconciler of People and Nations" and per Her request, a new church has been built by the Bishop and given this title. Her message is the same worldwide. She begs for all of Her children, regardless of faith, race, nationality, to Return to Her Son, Pray the 15 Decades of the Rosary as a weapon to overcome man's evil material ways and determination to destroy the world with armaments. She says only the Rosary will bring peace.

Betania is blessed with supernatural events such as mysterious fogs, intensive light, appearance of abundant flowers, especially roses - sounds of choirs singing hymns, mysterious rose petals falling from the sky, photographic phenomena and miraculous water, sometimes smelling like roses with many miraculous cures associated with the site.

This film is one more miracle given to us by the grace of God to help us recognize the true presence of His beloved Son in the Holy Eucharist.

(This video may be obtained by writing to:
Daniel Sanford
329 Cypress Ave.
Woodlynne, NJ 08107

The video is offered 'free of charge' but any donations to defray costs and to assist in furthe distribution of this wondrous video are gratefully appreciated.)

It also had a Letter of Approval from the Bishop of Los Teques, + Pio Bello, S. J., Bishop Emeritus of Los Teques, dated January 25, 1999, -- here are (sic) excerpts:

"After seeing the tape I became impressed.

As you should know, the experts in Spiritual Theology interpret the authentic visions as a mental phenomenon, that is, as an hallucination produced by God. They admit the possibility of optical visions, that is visions in which an object exterior to the seer is perceived by his eyes. Of this kind are the apparitions of Christ to the Apostles after his resurrection.

That a concrete vision is optical or only a mental one can be concluded by its characteristics. In your case your vision could be interpreted as a mental phenomenon since it was seen only by you and not by the other witnesses that were present.

But if we presume that hypothesis, it becomes outstanding that your filming camera could perceive and record your mental phenomenon against the laws of the Physic, since a camera, as the eye, can perceive only real objects that reflect the light.

So, in any hypothesis or in any case, the filming of your vision points out the hand of God.

Continue evangelizing about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharistic with the help of this impressive tape."