News Headlines : Bangladeshis flock to 'Weeping Virgin' - BBC / Hundreds flock to see Virgin Mary statue weep in Bangladesh - Ananova / 'Weeping' statue draws crowds - AP & canoe.ca / Statue's Tears Draw Thousands - Yahoo Daily News

Few Words from the Publisher

Sunday 16th of February, 2003 - Thousands of people in the Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong flocked to a church, The Cathedral of Our Lady Of The Holy Rosary located at Bandle Road, Patherghata, Chittagong, Bangladesh where tears reported to have been seen on a statue of the Virgin Mary.

The statue was brought from a church in Italy in 1955 to the church in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

All the photographs in the galleries are untouched (just rotated & resized).

Most of the pictures in this site were taken on the following day and the day after. But still some tears in her eyes and cheek can be seen. And changes of the size of her eyes and neck movement also can be noticed in the close-up pictures.

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Few Words from the Visitors of the Weeping Statue of Our Lady -  

As word spread, thousands of people -- including Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists as well as Christians arrived to see the statue.

A little kid visited the shrine on the same night with his parents said, the Our Lady starred at him and that time he saw some movements of her lips as if she wants to express something.

Roman Catholic believers say it's the first time in Bangladesh that tears have been seen on a statue of Mary and claim the cause of the Mary's tears is recent outbreaks of violence all over the world.

The statue eyes were seen blinked for more than 10 times, which was later discovered in a 20 Minute video which was captured by a visitor with his personal camcorder on the same night. Who have seen the video claim it was clearly seen that the eyes of statue blinking and waters draining not only from her eyes also from her nose and lips corner as if a real person is crying for a long.

Worshippers noticed the white marble statue shedding tears after an evening mass at the 150-years old Roman Catholic church.

Many of those visiting the church are Muslims, eager to see what some locals believe is a sign of the Virgin's dismay over the recent outbreak of violence in the country and elsewhere in the world.

A few visitors of other religion also claim that they received prompt recovery from illness by visiting the shrine at the same night and the day after.

"I myself have seen drops just below the eyes of the statue.. The source of the drops is still unknown," said Ronald Gomes, a Roman Catholic who is deputy administrator of the Association of Baptists, a non-government group in Chittagong. "Many people, irrespective of religion, are still crowding the church and the authorities have called in police to maintain order," Gomes told Reuters.

Scientists were skeptical. "It is hard to believe that a marble statue can secrete water," said S. K. Sinha, a professor in the chemistry department of Chittagong University.

On the following day, this news was reported with pictures as one of the cover news in most of the National & Local Daily Newspapers in Bangladesh. Reporters who visited the scene said they saw water droplets accumulating under the statue's eyes, and then dripping onto its chin.