Jesus died from a heart attack brought on by fatal internal bleeding from a ruptured artery in his shoulder, a doctor-turned-priest has said.
The Rev. Professor Patrick Pullicino, a priest in Southwark and formerly an NHS consultant neurologist, said there is evidence that Christ dislocated his shoulder in a fall on the way to Calvary and that the artery ruptured when he was on the cross.
The injury caused a huge internal bleed which resulted in the collapse of his circulatory system, he says in the latest edition of the Catholic Medical Quarterly.
