"Virgin Mary's Milk" From The "Milk Grotto" Is Touted As A Fertility Tonic. What's Really Going On?

In Bethlehem , there is a church known as the Milk Grotto , which is claim to have hosted the Virgin Mary while she was still lactate Jesus Christ .

accord to the tale , Mary hid in the church to escape King Herod ’s lodge to kill all male baby under the age of two . While she was there , some of her bosom milk supposedly spill on the floor and turned the stone of the cave from red to white .

Christians have for a long time consumed a drink made from thepowdered limestone rockof the cave , calling it the Virgin Mary ’s chest Milk River . Those that drink the " milk " think it can permeate miracle , in particular relate to fertility .

There is , of course , onlyanecdotal evidencecollected by the church of multitude having children after devour the drink , and photograph of well-chosen babies send off to them . However , this is not cogent evidence of a miracle , just a routine example of a sample bias .

For deterrent example , say a lot of people visit the grot or take the milk who are struggling to have children . While some of these will go on to have children ( maybe increasing their fortune by using IVF ) , others will not . Which radical do you think you are likely to hear from ? Not many people are likely to make the trek back to the grot to compose " it did n’t form " in the visitant book , nor is the grotto likely to put up photographs of the great unwashed disappointed with the miracle powder .

The anecdotes of those who had children get filtered back , and so more people believe the miracle and come to wassail the Milk River , some of whom will go on to produce more anecdote . Were this studied scientifically , you would in all probability find people who drank rock succus had roughly the same rates of success at have got children as those who had not consumed rock juice .

Plus , the Christian church is far from the only topographic point that take to have the Milk River of the Virgin Mary . Gallic theologian John Calvin mocked the abundance of Mary Milk River right smart back in the early sixteenth century .

“ With heed to the milk , there is not perhaps a town , a convent , or nunnery , where it is not show in large or small quantities,”Calvin compose . “ Indeed , had the Virgin been a wet - nursemaid her whole life , or a dairy farm , she could not have produced more than is shown as hers in various parts . ”

It seems that times never alter . As well as being sold in the Christian church forabout $ 2 , replicas are soldall over the internet . For around $ 35.75 ( no , we will not link up to the miracle powder ) you’re able to buy yourself a terrible drink , made from a random lump of limestone rock candy .