Vatican updates norms to authenticate visions of Mary, weeping statues and stigmata
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The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood...
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The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood tears and stigmata that erupted on hands mimicking the wounds of Christ.
For centuries, apparitions of Mary at sites such as Fatima, Portugal and Lourdes, France have become the basis for shrines visited by millions of pilgrims each year.
