Weeping Virgin Mary Statue in Mexico

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. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3949674/Stunned-father-watched-horror-blood-poured-eyes-statue-Virgin-Mary.html

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