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Miracle claimed as village's statue of saint oozes blood |
Miracle claimed as village's statue of saint oozes blood
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=469850
By Peter Popham in Naples
04 December 2003
Blood oozed from the eyes of a life-size statue of Padre Pio, Italy's
charismatic modern-day saint, according to the deputy mayor of a
village in Calabria.
Gentile Scaramozzino, the deputy mayor of Brancaleone in Italy's deep
south, said yesterday that the red liquid observed was blood, and that
further samples were to be analysed by specialists from Messina in
Sicily.
Sicily
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Sicily&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Sicily&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Sicily&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Sicily&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Italy
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Italy&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Italy&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Italy&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Italy&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Miracle claimed as village's statue of saint oozes blood |
05 Dec 2003 12:52:38 AM |
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In article <18510aff.0312040348.5edb1700@posting.google.com>,
(maff) wrote:
Miracle claimed as village's statue of saint oozes blood
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=469850
By Peter Popham in Naples
04 December 2003
Blood oozed from the eyes of a life-size statue of Padre Pio, Italy's
charismatic modern-day saint, according to the deputy mayor of a
village in Calabria.
Gentile Scaramozzino, the deputy mayor of Brancaleone in Italy's deep
south, said yesterday that the red liquid observed was blood, and that
further samples were to be analysed by specialists from Messina in
Sicily.
In the Reuters news report, it was going to be determinmed whether or
not the blood was human or animal:
http://tinyurl.com/xtuy
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Pilgrims Flock to See 'Weeping Statue'
Thu Dec 4,10:04 AM ET
ROME (Reuters) - Faithful and curious flocked to a town in southern
Italy on Thursday after reports that a bronze statue of a saint was
weeping blood.
Local officials in the southern town of Brancaleone said a red liquid
was seen coming out of the eyelids of a life-size statue of Padre Pio,
a mystic monk who died in 1968 at the age of 81 and was made a saint
last year.
The town's deputy mayor, Gentile Scaramozzino, said tests showed there
was some kind of blood in the liquid that stained the statue and the
pavement in a town square on Wednesday.
Further tests were being carried out to determine if it was human or
animal blood.
While local Catholic Church officials urged the faithful to be
cautious about what some people were calling a miracle and others a
hoax, Scaramozzino said the town was getting ready to provide
hospitality services for pilgrims.
A national consumer protection group warned against a possible hoax,
saying devotees of Padre Pio had been swindled in the past. "Let's be
careful before shouting 'miracle'," the Codacons consumer group said
in a statement.
During his life, Padre Pio had the stigmata.
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Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out to be donkey blood?
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John Hachmann, aa #1782
- Question authority. Now more than ever. -
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| User: "Levy Oates" |
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| Title: Re: Miracle claimed as village's statue of saint oozes blood |
05 Dec 2003 01:18:24 AM |
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On 4 Dec 2003 03:48:01 -0800, (maff) wrote:
Blood oozed from the eyes of a life-size statue of Padre Pio, Italy's
charismatic modern-day saint, according to the deputy mayor of a
village in Calabria.
I wonder if the perpetrator has been reading "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar
Wilde? The ghost left a red mark on the carpet each morning, but when it ran out
of red paint started to leave a green mark.
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Archdeacom Levy Oates
On behalf of the Prophet Eric Peabody (pbuh)
Basingstoke, England
http://www.angelfire.com/alt/bumblism/
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