Tears of blood 'Miracle' explained

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Tears of blood 'Miracle' explained

Barbara McMahon in Rome
Friday September 9, 2005
The Guardian


When a statue of Saint Pio began weeping tears of blood in a small town in southern Italy, local people hailed it as a miracle.
But the Roman Catholic church has revealed that the "tears of blood" which appeared in May were not a miraculous act of God, but the blood of a local woman.

Although no one knows which woman in the small town of Marsicovetere, near Potenza in the region of Basilicata, is responsible, local people believe it is probably a devotee of the ascetic Italian monk Saint Pio, one of Italy's most revered religious figures.

Canonised in 2002 in a ceremony in Rome attended by more than 250,000 believers, he was said to be the first priest in centuries to show stigmata - Christ's crucifixion wounds.

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