A recent study reveals that during every human pregnancy, the mother receives cells from her child, to protect and strengthen the mother’s body until the end of her life.
Newsroom (14/01/2022 13:00, Gaudium Press) Catholic piety tells us that the One whom the universe could not confine became Man in the womb of the Virgin Mary. A mystery so sublime and grand that, even today, it continues to reveal wonders never before imagined. This time, science has helped us to find one more aspect of Jesus and Mary in this infinite abyss of preciousness.
Medicine suggests the study of Marian theology
Science does not come to confirm the faith of the Church. It comes to the aid of reason to show that the supernatural realities revealed by God and safeguarded by the Holy Catholic Church do not contradict the reality of visible things.
In this sense, a recent study carried out at the University of Michigan (USA), exposes that in every human gestation the mother receives cells from her child which are genetically distinct from her own. Thanks to this discovery of medical and biological science, it can be claimed that the Virgin Mary not only carried the Divine Child in her womb, but also the cells of the same Christ passed into her bloodstream and remained in her throughout her earthly life.
And even today, since Mary has been raised body and soul to heaven, the cells of Christ are found in her and form part of her body. This medicinal discovery, made on the basis of the knowledge of maternal-fetal microchimerism, when translated into the field of Marian theology, offers us a true source of meditation on the greatness of the one who was chosen to be the Mother of God.
The results of these studies show that the union between the Creator and his Most Holy Mother is not only a spiritual bond, but also a physical one, and we might even rightly say, a biological and genetic one.
A close bond of entrustment and protection
Another impressive and at the same time marvellous aspect of this relationship between Mother and Son, presented by recent studies, is the close bond of mutual giving and protection, which replicates that between the Three Divine Persons, defined by the catechism as a “communion of love”. First, because by procreating, human beings participate in God’s creative activity, which is born of his Love. And secondly, because when a new life arises, through the placenta, cells from the mother enter into the child and vice versa, so that mother and child begin to protect and regenerate (to love) each other.
By Cicero Leite
Compiled by Gustavo Kralj
