Virgin Mary icon ‘crying tears of oil’ in France
8/3/2010
by Daily Telegraph, London
Esat Altindagoglu has been inundated with more than 50 visitors a day hoping to see the “miracle” at his house near Paris.
The one-foot high painting was given to his wife Sevin by a Lebanese priest on her birthday in 2006, the Turkish-born salesman said.
It began weeping oil on February 12 this year, and had been “crying” every day since, he claimed.
He said: “As word spread, people started arriving from France, then from all over Europe.
“I’ve been having between 50 and 60 people a day turning up for more than three weeks now.”
An Orthodox priest had now agreed to say mass at his home in Garges-les-Gonesse this week to thank the Virgin Mary, Mr Altindagoglu said.
He added: “Apparently the next step is to have to weeping witnessed by a bishop so the miracle can be officially recognised by the church.”
Over the centuries there have been hundreds of incidents of statues said to have wept blood, oil or water.
But the only one ever approved as a miracle by the Pope was Our Lady of Akita in Japan, in 1973, with all the others ruled out as hoaxes.
Communiqué au sujet de Manifestation “miraculeuse” de la Sainte Vierge en région parisienne :
http://www.antiocheurope.org/Communiques-Fr.html
It is not true that all other weepings were ruled as hoaxes. Little Audrey’s weeping statues were not ruled a hoax and another suffering servant has weeping statues which I have personally witnessed and examined. I can testify to her truthfulness and probity.
There are many which the Church has simply not judged one way or another, so the statement in the above article at the end “with all the othersruled out as hoaxes is erroneous.
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