Trevignano Romano - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:38:56 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Trevignano Romano - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican formally declares Italy's ‘bleeding Madonna' a false apparition https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/07/01/vatican-formally-declares-italys-bleeding-madonna-a-false-apparition/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:53:57 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=172628 A widespread and bizarre controversy in Italy has finally come to an end after the Vatican announced that a notorious Marian statue that allegedly shed tears of blood was deemed to be false. The story is a fantastical tale that has captivated the Italian imagination for over a year. It involves fraud charges, an apparent Read more

Vatican formally declares Italy's ‘bleeding Madonna' a false apparition... Read more]]> A widespread and bizarre controversy in Italy has finally come to an end after the Vatican announced that a notorious Marian statue that allegedly shed tears of blood was deemed to be false.

The story is a fantastical tale that has captivated the Italian imagination for over a year. It involves fraud charges, an apparent miraculous multiplication of gnocchi, and priests conducting secret investigations into the alleged supernatural events.

The drama is centred in the small Italian town of Trevignano Romano, home to roughly 6,000 people and located near the shore of Lake Bracciano, about 40 minutes north of Rome.

There, a Sicilian woman named Gisella Cardia has a statue of the Madonna she bought in Medjugorje several years ago. Cardia claims the Madonna has been bleeding from the eyes since 2016 and has been giving her private revelations since then.

Read More

Vatican formally declares Italy's ‘bleeding Madonna' a false apparition]]> 172628