(ANSA) - Auditore, July 17 - Blood streaming from the eyes
of a statue of the Virgin Mary which attracted crowds of
pilgrims to the small Italian town of Auditore in recent days
was only deer blood, medical examinations have showed.
Tears of blood were first spotted last week falling from
the eyes of the Our Lady of Lourdes statue, kept in a chapel in
the town in Marche, central Italy.
However medical experts in Ancona have discovered that the
blood is from a deer or similar animal.
As it now appears the blood was the result of a prank,
Auditore's mayor said he would file a complaint for causing
alarm, due to the number of people that arrived in the town to
see the weeping statue.
Statue's tears were deer blood
Weeping Madonna attracted floods of pilgrims to Auditore