What happened
On the feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1991, as a priest broke the host at Mass in Venezuela, it began to bleed. A diocesan commission sent it for analysis.
The local laboratory reported human blood, type AB. The host is preserved at an Augustinian Recollect convent in Los Teques.
What science found
ContestedA diocesan laboratory reported type AB blood. We hold it lightly: there is no independent or peer-reviewed confirmation.
Where it stands
Accepted by the Bishop of Los Teques (Pío Bello Ricardo); the host preserved for veneration.
Church recognition is a judgment about devotion — not a claim of scientific proof. We keep the two distinct.
Visit it
Augustinian Recollect convent, Los Teques, Venezuela
View on Google Maps →“Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 11:27
Sources
- International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles (St. Carlo Acutis) Devotional source
The bigger picture
This case is one witness in a much longer story — the Catholic teaching that Christ is truly, substantially present in the Eucharist.