The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9
"After having a chemical analysis performed on swabs used to clean
alleged blood from a local woman’s statue of St. Michael the Archangel,
the Archdiocese of Denver has determined the red liquid was not blood.
Alicia Martinez, 57, of Broomfield, Colorado, a Denver suburb, said
that her St. Michael statue began Feb. 23 to emit a dark liquid which
appeared to be blood.
Then, on March 12, three officials from the archdiocese’s chancery “visited to perform a more thorough investigation.”
“Upon arriving at the house and entering the room where the statue
was reportedly located, the archdiocesan team was told that someone had
taken the St. Michael statue. There were no apparent signs of forced
entry to the property.”
After conducting an interview with Martinez about the alleged
bleeding from the statue, she provided the team with several cotton
swabs that she said had been used to clean the dark liquid which
appeared to resemble blood from the statue.
The archdiocese said that “A chemical analysis was conducted of the
dried liquid on the cotton swabs using the Kastle-Meyer method for
presumptive positive blood samples. The test definitively showed that
the red liquid obtained from the statue was neither human nor animal
blood. The appearance of the substance on the cotton swabs was similar
to red nail polish."
After posting a video of the supposedly bleeding statue on Facebook,
Martinez, who works at a grocery store, received several comments that
she was only seeking money or fame, which led her to remove the video.
She expressed multiple times that this was not her intention in sharing
the video, but that it was “something real that happened to them [her
and her roommates]....This is not fraud. This is not to
become famous. None of that. I know it’s something divine from God that
doesn’t happen to everyone...."
CNA