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FACT CHECK: Did an Our Lady of Sorrows statue in Mexico really shed tears?

Nov 16, 2023

By Diego López Colín

Local Mexican media reported that a 9-year-old boy was the first to see what appeared to be tears flowing from... Read more

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe in Argentina announced that it will study the case of a statue of the Sorrowful Virgin that, according to parishioners at St. Jerome Church in the town of Coronda, shed tears June 9, 2023.

Argentine archdiocese to study statue of the Sorrowful Virgin that allegedly shed tears

Jun 14, 2023

By Julieta Villar

The alleged event happened on the evening of June 9 after Mass and a blessing for healing. Read more

Virgin of Tears / Photo: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Weeping Madonna of Syracuse commemorated in Sicily

Aug 31, 2020

In an August 29 Mass offered by Archbishop Salvatore Pappalardo, the archdiocese of Syracuse on the Italian island of Sicily... Read more

Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Bishop has not found 'natural causes' for weeping Mary statue

Sep 12, 2018

A New Mexico bishop has given an update an apparently weeping statue of the Blessed Mother, saying a diocesan investigation... Read more

Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

'Weeping' statue of Mary investigated by N.M. diocese

Jul 17, 2018

A New Mexican diocese is investigating a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary that some Catholics say has been “weeping”... Read more

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St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.

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A Coptic Orthodox church in Old Cairo, a historic area of the Egyptian capital.

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Anti-death penalty activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on Sept. 29, 2015, in Washington, D.C.

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