Italian statue 'weeps blood'
Police wipe the statue with handkerchiefs from believers
Police wipe the statue with handkerchiefs from believers
Police are to analyse the red liquid coming from the statue's eyes |
Though claims of weeping statues are not unusual in Italy, the popularity of Padre Pio has made this a special case.
More than 2,000 people rushed to the statue overnight in the square in front of the Church of Madonna of Pompeii.
Stigmata
He was considered the first priest in centuries to show the stigmata - the wounds to hands, feet and side suffered by Jesus at his crucifixion.
He has an enormous following and the monastery where he died in 1968 at the age of 81 attracts seven million visitors a year - similar to the numbers who go to France's Lourdes shrine.
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