"So they took the colt to Jesus and, throwing
their cloaks on its back, they lifted Jesus on to it. As he moved off,
they spread their cloaks in the road, and now, as he was approaching
the downward slope of the Mount of Olives, the whole group of disciples
joyfully began to praise God at the top of their voices for all the
miracles they had seen. They cried out: 'Blessed is he who is coming as
King in the name of the Lord! Peace in
heaven and glory in the highest heavens! Some Pharisees in the crowd
said to Him 'Master, reprove your disciples,' but He answered, 'I tell
you, if these keep silence, THE STONES WILL CRY OUT.'"
This famous image of Christ shed tears of human blood
During Holy
Week of 1995, the miraculous occurrence took place repeatedly during
the
recital of the Rosary. Since then, the number of devotees to the Crying
Christ
have grown to around a thousand, one hundred of which were standing in
front
of the statue when its eyes shed tears. The watery liquid afterward
transformed
into a blood-like substance that gives an impressive countenance on the
face of Christ.. This weeping icon is closely
associated with the visionaries Catalina Rivas and Nancy Fowler.
"Since 1995, various scientific studies of the icon have taken place,
the conclusions of which are astounding and underline the fact that
Cochabamba has fast become the center of a supernatural event.
Recordings have been
made of the crying, samples have been taken and sent to the laboratory.
And
lastly, the statue itself has been subjected to computerised
examination.
A laboratory report put together in April 1995 outlined the fact that
the
liquid analysed was "hemoglobin, hetero protein of a red colour that
exists
in hematoid, or red globules."
PDT Signs has the video, available at the above link, and it shows
the statue in the act of weeping tears of blood, forming in the eye
until it
drips down the face. The blood tests out as human blood. A thorn
fragment, indigineous to Jerusalem, was found in the dried blood
submitted for analysis. In another report on PDT a thorn was
found in the blood from the stigmatic wounds of Francis.
The statue of Mary above wept 101 times. See Akita.
Click on the picture of the video "Tears of Love" to find where to
purchase it.
From SpiritDaily:
Images
of the Madonna and Jesus shed blood and the scientists say: "AN EXTRAORDINARY AND AMAZING PHENOMENON"
Note: This
English translation was made from a French translation of the
original Italian document. You can view the Italian document
at
which has photos of
the event and the French document at
http://www.jnsr.be/ at Le
Secret de Marie révélé. We are endeavoring to
confirm details with Italian authorities. It is written by a well-known
author.
By Renzo
Allegri
Every now and then one reads in the news
that some Image of the Madonna is weeping. Sometimes these tears are
blood and the news are then much more impressive. The skeptics smile;
the ecclesiastical authorities evaluate the event with great prudence,
with good reason, and they avoid making definite judgments; science
does not get involved, and if it does, it is at the level practiced by
amateurs. Then, as time passes, the event becomes less interesting,
fades from memory, and is soon forgotten. Only in very rare cases is
the event of such importance that it is acknowledged as true and real
and is then certified as authentic and of a supernatural origin. An
example is the research that was carried out on the "Weeping Madonna of
Syracuse." [It was declared authentic and of supernatural origin.]
We will now tell you of a recent similar event, still unknown, which
reveals itself to be truly astounding because the first judgment
released came from science, science at the highest level, a judgment
that opens viewpoints to amazing hypotheses.
The event involves two Sacred Icons that shed tears of blood on two
separate occasions. The two Icons belong to Padre Pietro Maria
Chiriatti, 59 years old, a priest since 1990, founder of a small
Congregation called "The Missionnaries of Our Lady of the Quarry," who
lives in a modest dwelling in Alberobello, Puglia, Italy. Padre Pietro
tells us:
"It was on
the 3 of May 2003, around 6 in the evening, I had gone to my room to
take some medication when I noticed that the Icon which represents the
Madonna
with Child, hanging above my prayer kneeler, had spots on its face.
Because I
have poor eyesight I touched the Image and felt that it was wet. I
called my
fellow members (Confreres) and all of us could see that she was
shedding tears."
The
phenomenon lasted thirty minutes and was witnessed by other persons
whom Padre Pietro had immediately called. This event was recorded on
video tape. Padre Pietro wiped the blood with a handkerchief and sent
it to a laboratory to be tested.
Approximately one year later, on the 27 May 2004, the phenomenon
repeated itself on another Icon of Padre Pietro that represents the
Face of Jesus as it appears on the Shroud of Turin. This time it was
more than a weeping Icon, it was a bloody sweat. The Face of Jesus was
striped by seven streaks of blood that trickled down from the forehead,
along the cheeks, over the beard, and running over the picture frame of
the Icon. Padre Pietro, frightened, called out to all who were in the
house to come and see; he then telephoned the police, the parish priest
and the doctor. This phenomenon lasted for one and a half hours and was
witnessed by about 50 persons.
Once again, Padre Pietro collected some of the blood and sent the
sample to the same laboratory where he had previously sent the blood
that had appeared on the Face of the Virgin. And it was here, in this
scientific laboratory, where the extraordinary characteristics of these
related events became known. It must be made very clear that this
laboratory is one of the most prestigious in Europe. It is the Genetics
Forensic Laboratory of the University of Bologna, equipped with the
most modern sophisticated equipment with a team of researchers, doctors
and biologists University Professors. This laboratory specializes in
everything related to DNA. It works with Secret Services and Police of
many nations and is in contact with other similar laboratories of other
countries.
This laboratory has Scientific Authority, therefore a verdict released
by this laboratory is of indisputable [unquestionable] value.
After carrying out all the tests, the laboratory researchers sent Padre
Pietro an official document stating, in resume,
"the blood
is human blood, of group AB, male, and was found to be identical in
the two
samples tested, the blood from the tears from the Icon of the Virgin
and
the blood that appeared of the Face of Jesus are the same." But there
is
more, the
document continues from its evaluations to something that seems really
incredible: "the
configuration of the genetic features found in the Y chromosome
does
not correspond to any of the configurations present in the
world wide
data
bank where the data of 22,000 male subjects from 187 different
populations
is kept."
And further
on we read:
"This blood
is so rare that it must be considered as almost unique.
By
calculation, the statistical probability of finding, in the course
of
millennia, a typology of the same blood type, is almost nil, the
mathematical
probability of this happening is in the order of
1 in 200
billion possible cases."
[In other
words 1 on 200,000,000,000.]
What does all this mean? In the
first place, the data obtained excludes in an absolute manner any case
of fraud, deception or deceit: there is no one in the world who could
be in a position to produce blood with similar characteristics. On the
other hand, because we are dealing with a unique type of blood, the
data indicates that it belongs to only one single Person and to no
other person in all of humanity's history. Therefore it comes from a
Man who has no ancestor and no descendant [offsprings]. Therefore it
becomes quite clear and if we go to the Gospels and see what is written
there about Jesus, [we learn there that He was] a Man unlike all others
(unique) with these characteristics. While on this subject, it is quite
significant that the blood which appeared on the Image of the Virgin is
identical to the blood which appeared on the Face of the Image of
Jesus. We could say from these results that we possibly could have for
the first time ever the scientific data concerning the physical Person
of Jesus: the DNA of Jesus, God Incarnated in a Body that is and will
remain unique.
It is still too early to arrive at a final conclusion, but the verdict
from science is, for all purposes, precise, public and without
ambiguity. The scholars [researchers] who released this information did
it in a cold [controlled], mathematical, but very clear language. They
have specifically affirmed that they found themselves in front of
something unique. And they are the ones, accustomed to scientific
precision, to show with wonder, the extraordinary nature of these
results. In a private letter to Padre Pietro, one of the researchers
wrote: "these are results to stun with amazement even a statue." And
again: "faced with the results of these analyses is incredible to me,
and that is not saying much to say this, I could not even succeed in
hiding my tears." And another one told him: "This is real human blood,
but it seems to really come from another world."
The ecclesiastical authorities are naturally aware of these facts and
are presently investigating and evaluating them. Their prudence
[caution] will be tremendous, and with good reason, for it is right
that it should be so. But the scientific results lead one to think that
we are perhaps faced with a supernatural Sign of exceptional importance.
NBI finds statue’s ‘tears’ to be human
blood, priest says
By Artemio Dumlao
The Philippine Star 07/25/2004
BAGUIO CITY — Her tears were of human
blood.
"It’s human blood and it’s type A," said Fr. Vicente Castro of
the tears shed by the statue of St. Therese at the Baguio Cathedral,
quoting the finding of the Cordillera office of the National Bureau of
Investigation (NBI).
Castro, the cathedral’s 77-year-old parish priest, said the
NBI regional office informed him of its laboratory finding in a phone
call last Friday.
He said he submitted samples of the blood which dripped from the eyes
of the statue. The NBI itself collected samples, he said.
"There is a thing to consider now: did the blood come from the
statue or did somebody inject it?" he said. "As a statue, it should not
shed tears."
Devotees have flocked to the cathedral since a certain
Christopher Fergis said he saw the statue shedding tears of what
appeared to be blood when he was praying in front of it two weeks ago.
In a newspaper article, the 26-year-old Fergis urged the public to pray
the rosary and live a life according to God’s will.
Castro said St. Therese, a Carmelite nun who had lived in a monastery,
professed a life of simplicity.
REPORTS OF UNUSUAL HEALINGS CONTINUE FROM 'CHURCH OF THE WEEPING
ICONS”
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The priests at a Greek Orthodox church in the New York suburb of
Hempstead, Long Island, report that miraculous healings are continuing
years after
icons of the Virgin began shedding tears in the area. The phenomena
involved
three icons that were brought to St. Paul's Church: Our Lady of
Perpetual
Help (above), the Lamenting Mother of God (below), and a third that is
now
in Florida. While the flow of tears has long-since stopped (it first
began
in March of 1960), Father Nicholas J. Magoulias, the pastor, told
Spirit
Daily that other phenomena continue at this church that lost two
parishioners
to the tragedy of September 11.
One recent cure involved a Roman Catholic woman named Lilly Bertuccio,
who was set for a major cancer operation. After praying before one of
the icons she took oil from the shrine and applied it with a short
prayer ("I am applying this Holy Oil with the Blessed Mother's hand").
Two days before the operation, she had a dream filled with remarkable
light and the following Friday, when she went to New York Hospital of
Queens for the surgery, a mammography indicated that the tumor was
gone.
"We then went to another room for a different mammography," she noted.
"The nurse, my doctor, and the technician returned to my room and the
technician said to me, 'Do you believe in miracles?' I said, 'Yes, I
do.' He said,
'For twenty years I have been doing this and this is the first time
this
happened to me. Whatever was there is not there anymore."
That was in 1997. According to the priests, the healings continue to
the present day -- with at least two remarkable ones a year. "For
instance, there was one I know last March of a woman suffering from
cervical cancer who was completely healed," said the associate pastor,
Father Joakim Valsiad. "I heard
this with my own ears. I know that every day three or four stop by,
pray,
and receive the assistance of the Virgin Mary."
"The icons are still miraculous," says Father Magoulias. "They still do
healings. We had two this past year. It's a continuous thing. When I
first
came we had an all-night service, and we had a lady here from Chicago
who
was deaf, and before I started the service she was moved to take a
picture.
Back in those days they used to have a bulb that they would place in
the
flash, and she went to take a picture and all of a sudden it exploded.
I
heard a big explosion and turned around and said, 'What happened? What
happened?'
and she was hysterical. She said, 'I can hear! I can hear!' Her doctor
sent
a letter documenting it."
The church is one of a growing list in the New York area involving
alleged miracles. Reports of phenomena have also come from Our Lady of
the Island Shrine in Eastport (47 miles to the east); from a woman in
Huntington who claims apparitions of St. Therese the Little Flower; and
even a tree on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that seemed to bear an
image of the Virgin just weeks before the World Trade Center event.
Meanwhile, the Pope has been vigorously seeking reconciliation between
Roman Catholicism and the Orthodox Church, both of which have a
profound devotion to Mary.
Every now and then one reads in the news
that some Image of the Madonna is weeping. Sometimes these tears are
blood and the news are then much more impressive. The skeptics smile;
the ecclesiastical authorities evaluate the event with great prudence,
with good reason, and they avoid making definite judgments; science
does not get involved, and if it does, it is at the level practiced by
amateurs. Then, as time passes, the event becomes less interesting,
fades from memory, and is soon forgotten. Only in very rare cases is
the event of such importance that it is acknowledged as true and real
and is then certified as authentic and of a supernatural origin. An
example is the research that was carried out on the "Weeping Madonna of
Syracuse." [It was declared authentic and of supernatural origin.]
