The weeping icon

1920 was a violent year in Ireland. The British government outlawed the Irish Nationalist movement and the Irish Parliament, and the nationalists began a fierce guerrilla war against the authorities, especially against the notorious hounds sent to repress Ireland. Explosions, burning, assassinations, terrorist acts, hangings, and bloodshed are daily occurrences.

On 15 August, Templemore Town Hall in Tipperary, County Tipperary, was torched, and several other buildings were torched as the violence continued. Six days later, all the ICONS and paintings in the homes of Tobas Dewan and his cousin Madame Marr began to bleed at the same time.

The news of the miracle spread through the surrounding counties, and the stream of worshippers that began as a small stream soon grew into a mighty torrent. Travel agents around the world sent out inquiries to see if local hostels could accommodate a steady stream of pilgrims. Pilgrims from the United States, South Africa, Japan, and India set up tents around the Temple and surrounded it spectacularly.

A pious young man named James Walsh was lodged at Lady Marr's house. On the floor of his room was a hole the size of a teacup, miraculously filled with fresh water from nowhere. Worshippers who came to see the miracle scooped out large amounts of water in containers, but the cave would soon fill up. At first, groups of 50 people filed into the house of Tobias and Madame Marr to worship the ICONS, staying for five minutes each. Later, the owner simply put the holy image in front of the window, and the people marched in the procession, and at night the procession marched with torches. It is estimated that by the time the holy image stopped bleeding, a month had passed and as many as one million people had come to visit or make pilgrimages to Templemore.

One night in 1949, an American television program called "Small Miracles" introduced the miracle of a six-year-old girl named Sally Amanda:

That night Sally woke up suddenly and said to her mother, "In the corner of the room, an angel is crying!" And the next day, on her way back from school, Sally picked up the little stone statue of the angel. She took it home and told her mother, "I want to kiss it!" So she kissed the statue.

At this moment, the stone statue even shed tears.

The news soon spread through the neighborhood. Thanks to the spread of the television company, Sally showed the stone statue in front of the television. And Sally kissed the statue again. That's when the statue, in front of five million television viewers, burst into tears.

When Antoinette and Angelo Lanuso of Syracuse, Italy, got married in 1953, they received a little Madonna among their wedding gifts. It's not a work of art, but a $3 plaster hanging mass-produced in a factory in Sicily. Yet, no matter how humble her appearance, the Virgin is always respected.

Soon after their marriage, Antoinette became pregnant and began to suffer from headaches and paroxysmal blindness. On August 29, at the onset of his illness, Antoinette looked at the Madonna and saw tears streaming down her face.

"It's incredible. For a moment I thought there was something wrong with my nerves. She was crying like a child. Then I began to shout, 'The little Virgin is crying!' Antoinette's mother and cousin thought she was in hysterics from pain and went to soothe her. They both saw the tears coming from the statue. As soon as "she" began to cry, Antoinette's hysterics stopped.

For four days, crowds came to Lanuso's apartment to watch. One visitor took the Madonna down from the wall and held it up to his eyes. The wall behind the Madonna was dry. He recalled, "I took the Madonna down from the wall and wiped it clean. However. Immediately two more tears, like two pearls, appeared in the eyes of the Madonna."

The tears continued even when the Madonna was taken to the police station -- and the uniform of the policeman who held it in his hand was drenched. Tests on the tears of the Madonna show that they are chemically similar to human tears. If someone has a hopeless disease, just wipe the body with a cloth soaked in tears, and he or she will be relieved until he or she is cured. A 49-year-old man used it to regain the use of his left arm, and an 18-year-old girl who had lost her voice regained her ability to speak.

After a month of tears, the little Madonna was carried at the head of a procession of 30,000 people. On a train car and placed in a glass shrine. In five years, tens of thousands of pilgrims visited the shrine, among them 72 bishops and archbishops and three cardinals. A large number of discarded crutches is evidence that many cripples have been cured.

On July 27, 2003, Pope John Paul II AT THE Vatican APPOINTED Cardinal DEGIORGIO, ARCHBISHOP OF Palermo, Sicily, Italy, AS HIS SPECIAL ENVOY to represent him at the closing ceremony of the Year of OUR Lady of Syracuse. The ceremony took place on September 1 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Tears in Siracusa, Sicily.

The closing ceremony of Our Lady of Syracuse commemorates the miracle that took place in Syracuse 50 years ago. A statue of the Virgin here wept at regular intervals from August 29 to September 1, 1953. In announcing the miracle of the Year of the Virgin, Archbishop Costanzo of Syracusa told the faithful that their most important duty is to try to understand the meaning of the tears of the Virgin.

In 1995, a statue of the Virgin in Civitavecchia, a city near Rome, became a sensation in Italy with tears streaming from its eyes. A team of theological experts and Marist scholars stepped in to investigate. In a preliminary investigation, experts tested tears from the statue and found that the eyes of the Virgin were filled with human blood. A CT scan of the statue was carried out at the Gemelli Hospital, which is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine in Rome. "No abnormalities were found in the body," the doctor wrote.

Patty Powell, 47, a devout Catholic, bought a statue of the Virgin Mary from a religious store in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1994. Eight years later, on March 19, 2002, she noticed a rose-scented oil coming from the eyes of the idol. She wasn't sure if it was a miracle only she could see until the idol wept again on Easter Sunday. This time it was witnessed by many, including the local parish priest. Powell says hundreds of people have made pilgrimages to her home since Easter. So she set up an altar in her home to honor the Madonna.

After the relevant aspects sent experts to conduct a scientific investigation, found that is not a hoax, and at this time the outflow of tears, some sick people touch the Madonna, is miraculously healed.

Giovanni Chiodini, a police officer in the Italian town of SAN Antonio Abate, found a plastic Jesus in the garbage one day. When he took it home, he found that the eyes of the statue of Jesus were filled with red liquid, and later the head, hands, face, chest, and feet were also stained with blood red. The miracle captured the nation's attention when it was reported on the midday news on Italian state television, prompting the local bishop to order a commission to investigate. Thousands of worshippers came from far and wide to make pilgrimages to the town, blocking the road to the town in convoys that stretched for three kilometers.

There are many cases of ICONS shedding tears and blood. A statue of the Virgin in front of the famous Centennial Red Church in a downtown square in Saigon, Vietnam, is said to have shed tears, while a statue of the Virgin in California, the United States, is said to have shed blood.

ICONS have a long history of shedding blood or tears. This supernatural mystery has not yet been fully explained.