The eerie truth about a statue of the Virgin Mary that some claim ‘wept tears of blood’ has been revealed. The woman who initiated the statue claim vanished after the truth came to light
The mystery behind a Virgin Mary statue that some claim weeps tears of blood has been exposed.
A 54-year-old Sicilian woman, named Gisella Cardia, claimed in 2016 that a Virgin Mary statue – by the Madonna di Trevignano in Italy – would cry tears of blood. Hundreds of people soon flocked to the town of Trevignano to see the statue of the Virgin Mary and her alleged blood-stained cheeks.
But in 2023 a fraud investigation was launched to get to the bottom of what had actually happened to this eerie statue. Swab tests were ordered on the statue’s stained porcelain cheeks – with these stains had previously thought to have been pig’s blood.
Last week the blood test results were released, revealing that the blood matched Cardia’s genetic profile. Cardia’s lawyer Solange Marchignoli explained to Italian news outlet Corriere della Sera that Cardia had “used, kissed and handled” the statue, reports IFLS.
Cardia has previously claimed to have performed supernatural phenomena thanks to the powers of the statue – such as feeding 15 people never ending portions of pizza, gnocchi and rabbit. The woman also persuaded her followers into believing she had predicted the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022 the Catholic church publicly deemed the ‘miracle’ as fake. Alongside this, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued their first decree in line with new guidelines for vetting claims of Marian apparitions and spiritual phenomena.
Since the results of the DNA test came out Gisella Cardia has reportedly left her home in Trevignano and no one – including her lawyer – knows where she is.
Before her disappearance Cardia would arrange to visit the ‘weeping’ statue on every third day of the month.
Cardia has previously been convicted of bank fraud.