St.Anthony’s body is exposed to the faithful in the chapel of Relics, February 15, 2010 in Padua, Italy.
A number of Franciscan monks hoisted a glass coffin containing the remains of St. Anthony of Padua in a room in the Basilica of Saint Anthony, Sunday 15th of February 2010.
In 1981, to mark the 750th anniversary of the Saint’s death, Pope John Paul II gave permission for a scientific examination of the relics. The Tomb was opened and inside the marble sarcophagus was found a large wooden coffin, with a smaller coffin inside.
Inside the latter were three cloth-wrapped bundles, containing the bones of the Saint, other organic matter, and the habit in which he had died.
As a result of the examinations made, we now have a much better idea of Anthony’s physical appearance, and his age when he died. A gifted sculptor was able to recreate the probable features of the Saint in a way that corrects some misconceptions in earlier portraits.
Finally, on the night of Saturday, February 20, the body was solemnly returned to its original resting place in the Chapel of Saint Anthony in the presence of Msgr. Francesco Gioia, Pontifical Delegate for the Basilica.
During the ceremony, the Rector of the Basilica, read out a message from Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State:
” The Holy Father, who is spiritually present with you, sends his warmest greetings to the well-deserving Conventual Franciscan Friars and to all the pilgrims and devotees who have flocked in large numbers to venerate the relics of the great apostle of preaching and charity. His Holiness hopes that the fortunate event might highlight the shining example of this Franciscan priest who has been loved by so many generations of believers. May it inspire many young people to embrace religious life as faithful followers of the Seraphic Rule. May it cause many to renew their commitment to the love of Christ and their brothers and sisters. May they generously commit themselves to work for justice and peace. With this in mind, the Holy Father, through the intercession of the great Wonder-Worker, invokes a plenitude of celestial favours on those who have participated in this solemn event, and sends a heartfelt apostolic blessing”.
Source: Saint Anthony of Padua.net
My comment:
It is difficult to find the right words for what you have seen in these photos. The Roman Catholic’s them selves did a video recording of the opening of the tomb of this mortal man, and the removal of his coffin.
To honor skulls and bones with a Roman Catholic mass, do qualify to be branded as pure Satanism. In this video you will see the skeleton being carried on the shoulders of the Order brothers, and granted a candle procession into the Basilica.
Please show the below video to all Christians who have been deceived by their leaders to accept Roman Catholics as a part of the Christian family. May be they are not aware of such dark masses conducted by Vatican appointed cardinals and bishops?
This video was recorded on 6th of January 1981.
For all who love Jesus the Messiah, these kind of rituals are morbid and despicable.
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
The Pope and his followers defame and blaspheme God of the Bible in the most filthy manner. If you are still a church going Roman Catholic, you must understand that your are a supporter of the whore of Babylon. You are a part of global spiritual disaster. If you do not quit and repent, you will have to join all these religious people down the path to the fire of Hell.
Please remember: I loved you enough to warn you. May Jesus the Messiah have mercy on your soul. Amen.
Written by Ivar
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Shalom and blessings Ivar. Another thought provoking article and the “Please remember” at the end of your comments is wonderful. Continued blessing to you my brother.
Dear Kalev Efrayim
Shalom, and love in Jesus.
No true follower of the Messiah desire anyone to perish. Regardless of how deep into Satanism they have been. The problem we face by evangelization of Roman Catholics, is that they really believe they are Christians. Since they have a “Christ” in their midst.
To be able to explain to Catholics at large, that this “Christ” is false, a copycat, you need to expose their priesthood. Worship of skulls and bones will be condidered disguesting by 95 per cent of all human beings.
Only the elite block this kind of exposure, because telling the truth do not serve their interest of claiming “Christianity” being the largest world religion. If a billion Roman Catholics have been paganized, the number of Christians will be dramatically redused. The true followers of the Messiah is a small faith group of people who are faithful to the Word of God.
This conclusion will be Biblical. Jesus warned us that only a few will be able to make it through the narrow gate.
Reblogged this on Patriot News II.
I respectfully disagree with the above. When reading the above, I was thrown back into the Dark Ages. First of all, Catholics honor their dead. The above pictures depict honor and devotion to a great mortal who lived to speak greatly and fluently regarding God’s son, who gave himself over to death for the redemption of mankind. What you say above is essentially twisting things around to suit your needs to feel justifled in attacking our rites of honoring the dead–we do not worship them. Only Jesus and those who follow Him will enjoy the fruits of their faithfulness to His Word. Your words are hateful and full of untruth. Truth will prevail “against the very gates of hell.” Only God/Jesus/and the Holy Spirit are to be worshipped, in sacred ritual and in our loving actions.
Dina, you are absolutely correct. News that matter does not know what black mass is all about.
The “black mass” is a ritual inversion (and mockery) of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and Eucharist performed by Satanists.
Thousands of Catholics turned up on 15 August 2016 to a church in Oklahama City to defy Satanists who were holding a “black mass” nearby in what the archbishop called “a powerful witness of faith”
Black mass actually proves the truth of Catholicism. Satan hates the Catholic Church and the Eucharist.
Dear armorrcc
Shalom, and love in Jesus.
The concept “black mass” is an interestic topic. It can be defined as a ritual which mock God of the Bible. The RCC mas in an example. It is a bloodless ritual, where Jesus is crucifed again and again. In every mas, the finished work at Calvary is copied, since the priest claims “Jesus” is present at the altar. The Messiah is than consumed by the priest and parishoners. Litteraly eaten, since the RCC dogma claims the Messiah is litteraly present in the round wafer.
The mass in Padua is a gross example of a satanic ritual. A corpse of a mortal man is exhumed, and worshipped. Litterally carried around inside a Catholic shrine, caried around on the shoulders of the priests and order brothers. I realy marvels me, that any sane person can defend this kind of blaspehemy. Shame on all who defend this. If you do not repent, the etarnal lake of fire will be your final destiny. I loved you enought to warn you.
Let me try to explain because you do not understand Catholic teaching.
St. John calls Jesus the LAMB OF GOD? Jesus is the Lamb which is slaughtered, sacrificed and offered upon the Cross.
Jesus was slaughtered and offered, ONCE FOR ALL, upon the Cross. But He proclaimed that He would give us the Bread that is His Flesh, and the Wine that is His Blood, in the Holy Eucharist.
This is how we consume the once for all Sacrifice which is the Mass.
The Passover SACRIFICE did not end with the death of the lamb. But with the consuming of the lamb by the Priestly people, the Jews.
For some reason, you consider only the first part of the Passover, the sacrifice and not the second part.
Dear armorrcc
Shalom and love in Jesus.
Have it ever been possible for man to eat God?….Only the Pope tells us to do so.
The Catholic Church believe that Jesus is God.
Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:53-54).
Catholics honour Jesus’ command and trusting in that promise every time we go to Mass.
Dear armorrcc
Shalom, and love in Jesus.
I know what the Roman Catholic Church teach. And I know what Jesus said.
1. The Bible say to drink blood is a sin
2. The Jews never drank the blood of the passover lamb.
3. Jesus did not cut his fingers, and told us to drink his litteral blood.
4. Jesus did not drink His own blood.
Since point 1 to 4 makes it quit obvious that to drink blood, and claim its the litteral blood of Jesus, is a sin: We need to understand this figurtativly. In connection to the facts its a Passover meal. Not a new ritual. Otherwise the Bible contradict it self, or we are simply called to behave insane.
Jesus the Messiah pointed towards the cup with the remembrance passover blood, not the litteral passover blood used 1.000 years earlier. And said: “THIS (the passover blood, in the cup, not His own blood) is my blood. (to be sheed later on Calvary Hill). Drink (the passover blood) this blood in remembrace of me.
The disciples did not fully understand, and all Roman Catholics are still confused. The disciples had not yet experience Jesus sheeding His blood on the cross. But after knowing what took place on Calvary Hill, this is obvious to me. But a lot of religious people do not pay attention to the passover meal, and what the Jewish people already were told to do.
In 107 A.D, Ignatius who was a Apostle of Saint John is being led off to his martyrdom in Rome. Along the way, he wrote seven letters to the Roman Christians.
Let’s consider just one passages from those letters.
To the Smyrnaeans, Ignatius warns them about the Gnostics, writing:
“They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.”
Catholics do believe the writings of the Church Fathers who were taught by the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ.
Can you really reject Ignatius, Polycarp, and the churches of Ephesus and Smyrna without rejecting Revelation and Paul’s Epistle Ephesians?
Martin Luther believed the writings of Ignatius.
Ignatius was praised by Christians for 1500 years, for his faith and then condemned for their faith by Calvin who rejected this believe.
Dear Armorrcc
Shalom, and love in Jesus.
I fully understand the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. I have read the Cathecism of the RCC from A to Z.
The Catholic theology is a mix of human reasoning.
1. You reject the Word of God as the final and highest authority, alone, in all matters of the Christian faith.
2. You add to scriptures, philosphy and reasoning of the so-called “Church fathers”.
3. You add to scriptures dogmas of the papacy.
4. When 1-2-3 is sumarized, you have created a man made religion. That redicule, blapheme and contradict and set a side the word of God, in the name of “Christ’.
It is simply impossible to convince religious Catholics. I can only pray for you, that the Holy Spirit will be able to make a breakthrough. And that God of the Bible will have mercy on your soul. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
There is not a single Biblical passage in the Catholic Bible that says the entire Christian faith is contained solely in the Bible Alone.
I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.
1 Corinthians 11:2
So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.
2 Thessalonians 2:15
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
John 21:25
As you can see, the Bible plainly teaches that the word of God is revealed to us not only through the pages of the Bible, but also through the oral traditions handed down from the apostles. But how can those oral traditions be known today?
“The teaching of the Church has indeed been handed down through an order of succession from the apostles, and remains in the churches even unto this present time. That alone is to be believed as the truth which is in no way at variance with the ecclesiastical and apostolic tradition.”
— Origen, Fundamental Doctrines 1:2, written in AD 230.
Does your Bible says the entire Christian faith is contained solely in the Bible Alone?
Dear Armorcc
Shalom, and love in Jesus.
Your last comment proves my point. It severs no purpose to continue this debate.
Here is more. Why did below belief changed 500 years ago??
The early Christians, who died for their faith in the Roman Coliseum and circuses, firmly believed in the real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, and even wrote it down for us in their own words…
“For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.” — Justin Martyr, First Apology 66 (AD 110-165)
Again, these were the Christians who suffered and died for their faith at the hands of the Pagan Roman Empire.
They died believing the bread becomes the literal flesh of Jesus Christ, and the wine becomes his literal blood. In fact, that was one of the charges the Pagans levelled against them — cannibalism.
Ivar
You said:
Your last comment proves my point. It severs no purpose to continue this debate.
My question:
If my last point proves your point, where in Scripture does it say the entire Christian faith is contained solely in the Bible Alone?
My Catholic Bible does not say that anywhere.
Armorrcc
I refuse to believe you are stupid. But my grace for you is over. No Evangelical Christian, have ever claimed that the “Christian faith is contained solely in the Bible alone”.
But you will never debate the real issue of the RCC contradicting the scriptures, and setting the Word of God aside by your traditions. When the Bible has to be understood litteraly, you deny the authority of scriptures. Where Jesus speaks figurativly, you take things litterally. I have no more time for this. Enough.
All those are Misteries, it not for You, as a mortal, to understand it. If you like to understand it, goes to Buddhist monastery and cleanse yourself and reset your mindset to start the study of those 7 x 4 misteries.