Worshippers in Mexico were left in amazement after witnessing the real-life ‘miracle’ of a statue of the Virgin Mary ‘crying’ and the stunning scene was captured on film.
The apparent miracle is said to have occurred at a church in El Canal, a community in the state of Colima.
Hundreds of believers and spectators have flocked to the spiritual statue in hopes of seeing the weeping Virgin Mary for themselves.
Some have even said the statue’s eyes became red as the tears came trickling down.
Local resident Victor Ramos said that similarly, when we cry, our eyes become red, and the same happens to the image.
Other locals have gone on to associate Mary’s tears with the ongoing violence in the state of Colima this year.
As of October, there have been 702 intentional homicides confirmed by the Colima Prosecutor’s Office.
The statue’s tears have made spectators believe she’s attempting to signal peace in the violence-filled community.
Though the so-called miracle has astonished many, it didn’t impress Professor Luigi Garlaschelli who spoke about the science behind the statue. He noted some statues have the ability to absorb water based on their materials.
Luigi Garlashelli said that you need a hollow statue made of plaster or ceramic.
He added the outside of the statue is typically accompanied by a waterproof layer.
Once the hole at the top of the statue is filled with water then the ‘porous material with absorb it’, but if there’s even a slight crack in the structure it could cause water to drip out.
In April, a Vatican academy in Italy set out to investigate ‘mystical phenomena’ around the world including ‘weeping’ statues of the Virgin Mary, stigmata and ghost sightings under plans for a new dedicated observatory.
The Pontifical Mariana International Academy, which described itself as a scientific institution of the Holy See, has hoped to uncover ‘around a hundred ongoing phenomena’ in Italy alone.
On top of delving into the mysterious crying Virgin Mary all over the world, they have also committed themselves to investigating ghost sightings, interior locutions and stigmata, which believers see as bodily marks, scars or pains corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ.
In September 2019, other worshippers said that they saw ‘tears’ streaming down the face of a painting of the Virgin Mary as a ‘sign of God’ in a church facing bankruptcy.
Some would say that this was a very disrespectful hoax to pull and that some people have no shame, but then when has the church had any shame? But then it’s not just the Virgin Mary that’s weeping these days!
There’s definitely a lot to cry about in this world and even the statues are brokenhearted, but then I guess for good to be acknowledged, bad must exist, we were not promised a perfect life, and statues don’t cry.
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