A "mystic" who conned hundreds of pilgrims with a fake blood weeping statue of Mary is facing a trial after she was caught in a lie by a DNA test. Gisella Cardia claimed to have been receiving ...
The statue is honored at the Institute of the ... The sisters kept silent on the weeping phenomenon. But word of the “miracle” was soon shared with outsiders by visitors to the church and ...
The observatory’s mission statement says experts will analyze and interpret apparitions, lacrimations, or weeping statues, stigmata “and other mystical phenomena that are in progress or have ...
Cardia, who was previously convicted of bank fraud, arranged visits to see the 'weeping' statue every third day of the month. She tucked the small statue inside a large blue case, positioned in ...
ROME — Supernatural events like visions of the Virgin Mary and statues weeping tears of blood have for centuries stirred the faithful — and controversy for the Catholic Church. In the age of ...
A statue of the Virgin Mary in Italy that was said to be “weeping tears of blood” has been at the centre of controversy for years. Now, new forensic tests have finally provided an answer to ...
A Weeping Jesus Statue: Pilgrimage Church of Wies Language: Miraculously preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, the Church of Wies (1745-54), the work of architect Dominikus ...