The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and ScienceVarious
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The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science
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Catholic Church -- Periodicals
We give, first, three tables for the vigil, feast, and octave in May.
The first one shows the state of the blood when taken out from its
closet, giving to each day a column, and recording in each column the
various conditions of the blood, distinguishing them as: 1. Very hard;
2. Hard; 3. Soft; 4. Liquid, with a hard lump in the liquid; 5. Hard
and full; 6. Full, when, on account of that fulness, it could not be
known whether the dark mass of blood within was solid or fluid; 7.
Liquid. A second table will set forth, under a similar arrangement,
the various lengths of time which elapsed from the taking out of the
reliquary of the _ampulla_ from its closet until the liquefaction
was seen to commence. After enumerating the instances in which the
time is clearly determinable, another line indicates the times when
the liquefaction is set down as gradual, sometimes because the time
was not clearly seen, sometimes, perhaps, because the recording was
perfunctory. We add another line, embracing the various occasions when
the diary either omits recording or indicating the time, or does so,
vaguely or in such terms as “_regular_, _very regular_,
_promptly_, _punctually_, _most punctually_, _without unusual delay_,
_without anything new_.” We subjoin to this table other lines, showing
on what days and how often the blood remained always fluid; or always
fluid with a hard floating lump; or always hard; or always full, and
so full that liquefaction was not detected. A third table, similarly
arranged, will show in what condition the blood was when locked up at
night in its closet. We also give three similar tables for the feast
and octave of September, and similar accounts for the December
festival and for the extraordinary expositions.
_May, 1648, to May, 1860, inclusive--213 Years._ 41
TABLE I.
STATE OF BLOOD AT THE OPENING OF THE CLOSET.
---------------------+------+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+------+----
MAY. |Satur.|Sun.|Mon.|Tues.|Wed.|Thur.|Fri.|Satur.|Sun.
---------------------+------+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+------+----
Very hard | 2 | -- | 1 | 1 | 2 | -- | 2 | 2 | 2
Hard | 156 |119 |207 | 203 |168 | 139 |123 | 113 | 113
Soft | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6
Liquid, with hard lump| 40 | 74 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | --
Hard and full | 3 | -- | -- | 1 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 17
Full | -- | -- | -- | 4 | 33 | 56 | 68 | 75 | 73
Liquid | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | --
---------------------+------+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+------+----
TABLE II.
TIMES OF THE LIQUEFACTIONS.
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