04-21-2022, 09:22 PM
San Gennaro
In a sealed ampoule, his blood
gels and liquefies and gels again
seemingly at will. A miracle?
Popes have knelt before it,
kissed it, and in great glass boxes
gems and silver busts are kept
in honor of the saint
but the church refuses to claim
anything more than his holy life, his martyrdom,
and that it's his blood in the ampoule.
In a sealed ampoule, his blood
gels and liquefies and gels again
seemingly at will. A miracle?
Popes have knelt before it,
kissed it, and in great glass boxes
gems and silver busts are kept
in honor of the saint
but the church refuses to claim
anything more than his holy life, his martyrdom,
and that it's his blood in the ampoule.