14 DAY TRIAL // The news just broke that, this past weekend, a reliquary containing blood belonging to the late Pope John Paul II went missing from a mountain church in Italy.
The reliquary in question ended up at the Church of St. Peter of Ienca in the Abruzzo Mountains back in 2011, when Polish cardinal Stanislaw Dzuwisz donated it to this place of worship.
It did not contain blood per se, but a fragment of material believed to have been part and parcel of the clothing that Pope John Paul II wore when he was shot at in 1981 in St. Peter's Square.
Thus, some of the late Pope's blood is said to have been impregnated in this piece of cloth, The Telegraph details.
The people who took the reliquary appear to have also stolen a cross. Police officers are doing their best to identify them and track them down, but have made no major progress until now.
According to Giovanni Panunzio, the national coordinator of an anti-occult group called Osservatorio Antiplagio, it is possible that the blood-stained material and the cross were stolen by a Satanic group.
“It’s possible that there could be Satanic sects behind the theft of the reliquary,” Giovanni Panunzio told the press.
“This period of the year is important in the Satanic calendar and culminates in the Satanic ‘new year’ on Feb 1. This sort of sacrilege often take place at this time of the year,” he further explained.
Hopefully, it will not be long until the blood and the cross are recovered.