Stunned father ‘watched in horror as blood poured
from the eyes of a statue of the Virgin Mary’. Man, from Jalisco, Mexico, said he had
seen statue weeping for 4 months
The Figurine, showing Virgin Mary in a white shawl, is caked in dried red
liquid. The Statue's exact location being kept a secret
to stop the public from visiting, by Rory Tingle, Mailonline, 11/18/16
A stunned father has described his amazement after watching a statue of the Virgin Mary he keeps in his house weeping blood.
The man, from Jalisco,
Mexico, claimed the figurine has been crying for four months - a phenomenon
some Catholics see as a sign from God.
The statue, which shows
the Virgin Mary in a white shawl topped by a crown, is now caked in what its
owner claims is dried blood.
However, its exact location is being kept a secret and members of the public are not allowed to visit, the man told TV news channel Telemundo.
He might be concerned
about prompting a mass pilgrimage to the statue, as happened in the Colombian
town of Floridablanca earlier this year.
Images of the statue with a red liquid dripping down its cheek prompted a wave of ecstatic visitors who believed they were witnessing a miracle.
Resident Ana Cristina
Jimenez said: 'I saw that the Virgin had a tear of blood. I was surprised. I
felt joyful, sad... everything!'
Miryan Quintero, another
woman from the community, added: 'I believe it. The Virgin is alive in Heaven.
I know she's real.'
The Catholic Church did not comment on the unexpected mass pilgrimage, although the archbishop of the nearby city of Bucaramanga urged caution.
It remains to be seen
whether or not the Vatican will endorse the weeping statue of Jalisco as a
miracle.
Only a very small number
of similar occurrences have been accepted by the Church as valid miracles, with
numerous others proven to be hoaxes.
Comments
The
Catholic Church should be investigating this latest phenomenon to see if this
is really blood and what is its ancestral DNA.
The
apparitions at and Guadalupe Mexico in 1531, Lourdes France in1858 and Fatima
Portugal in 1917 are well known as confirmed sites. The more recent apparitions
at Garabandal Spain from 1961 to 1965, Medjugorje Bosnia in 1981 and Conyers
Georgia 1989 to 1992 are not confirmed.
I
visited the Conyers Georgia site in 1990 and it looked like a valid apparition
site to me. I smelled roses, where there were no rose bushes, saw faces appear
in the sky and heard about rosaries turning gold. The message included a plea to the US to end
abortion.
The
Catholic Church requires evidence of medical miracles to declare a Saint or an
apparition site. They are skeptical.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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