The Curious Case Of The Weeping Statue Mary

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By Sandra Perry


Many urban legends have stemmed out about the crying statue of mother Mary. A lot of people would say that it is the work of some sort of supernatural force while the Catholic church would call it a miracle on earth. Despite all of this though, it is very interesting to look into the overall story of the weeping statue mary to know whether this is fact or fiction.

In order to know more about the phenomenon, it is crucial to look at one of the first cases. Probably the earliest documented one was in a church in Siracusa, Sicily sometime during the year 1953. According to the reports, the Virgin Mother statue cried tears straight from her eyes for everyone in the vicinity to see.

This prompted a lot of followers to witness the phenomenon and even video taped while it was happening. Due to this leaking, there were many unsolved questions that were popping up as to why this happened in the first place. Of course, the more hardcore followers believed that it was a sign of faith and that God was trying to speak to them through divine intervention.

Following that, there have been a string of incidences regarding this type of phenomenon years to come. One of the more popular ones was the incident of the Inala Vietnamese Catholic Centre which happened in 2004. The incident involved a Mother Mary figure crying out blood and leaking scented oil. This also became a big issue with the church that the Archbishop started an investigation.

Of course, these cases were all investigated for any type of explanation. One of the more popular scientific explanations was made by a Dr Luigi Garlaschelli of the University of Pavia. According to Garlaschelli, there is a scientific phenomenon for the so called miracle and he aimed to prove it by creating his own crying holy mother figure.

He made his statue out of a plaster material that had a glazing that could absorb liquids. After that, he tried making some scratches and small holes in the eyes area of his figure. He was able to discover that when there is a crack in the plaster, there is a high chance that the liquid absorbed by the thin plaster would come out and make the figure look like it is crying.

Now, the Brisbane church incident was more of a hoax case as compared to the 1953 case which was more natural. Now, the investigation team made by the archbishop was actually able to find that the scented oil was a brand that could be bought from a regular store. His team was also able to find out that the blood that came out from the eyes of the figure was not actually blood. Lastly, they found some holes in the eyes which looked like injection holes.

The Brisbane incident was already proven to not be a true incident. The same could not be the same for Garlaschelli though as the original figure is locked up the church and none can touch it. That said, Garlaschelli was never able to do any tests on it to see if his theory was real.




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