A Virgin Mary statue in Mexico has been called a 'miracle' after it appears to be shedding tears. Locals claim the phenomenon is linked to violence in the area Share this article Share this article Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Email Copy link Link copied Bookmark this Comment
Locals have called a statue of the Virgin Mary in Mexico a 'miracle' after tears were seen flowing from its eyes.
The phenomenon has captured the hearts of people in a country that is overwhelmingly Catholic and has deep religious traditions.
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A statue in a church in El Canal, Colima, was captured on video appearing to show tears flowing from the Virgin Mary's eyes. According to The Sun, crowds of people gathered outside the church to see the astonishing miracle unfold before their eyes.
A video of the statue has spread like wildfire across social media, showing water dripping from the statue's eyes and running down its face. Some viewers are convinced that the Virgin Mary's tears are real, pointing to the redness around the eyes as proof that the statue was indeed crying.
Local resident Victor Ramos said: “Just like when we cry and our eyes turn red, the same thing happens to the image. I started to cry. This event, this phenomenon, is happening here in the church,” the Irish star reports.
Mr Ramos believes the statue began to cry because of the escalating violence in the area.
He added: “We can link this to the level of violence that we see here in the state of Colima and also here in society.”
The Daily Star previously reported that Colima is the most dangerous city in Mexico, according to statistics from the Citizens' Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice. Last month, the US government issued a travel warning against visiting Colima and several other Mexican regions, including Sinaloa, due to rising crime rates.
The report paints a grim picture of rising murders, kidnappings, carjackings and robberies, and includes a new warning of potential terrorist attacks and violence, Al Jazeera reported. It is the first time Washington has expressed concern about the risks of terrorism in Mexico.
The Catholic Church takes claims of supernatural phenomena such as weeping statues very seriously, but requires solid evidence before passing judgment. In May 2024, the Vatican updated its guidelines for assessing supernatural phenomena, including weeping statues, in response to the proliferation of unverified claims online that can cause confusion among the faithful.
The Conversation reports that the change was prompted by the need to quickly determine whether or not various phenomena increasingly common in the Catholic world and spreading rapidly through social media are supernatural in origin. The new procedures replace previous guidelines dating back to 1978.
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The church's new guidelines aim to more effectively oversee the verification of such events as they occur.
It centralizes the authorization, management and control of the supernatural in the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith.
This is more commonly known as the “inquisition” and gives church authorities, such as bishops, the order to submit any potential miracle to the Dicastery for investigation.
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