The DNA on a statue of the Madonna alleged to have wept blood and to have been linked to miraculous Marian apparitions ...

Cardia had bought the statue in 2016 from a Catholic pilgrimage site in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later featured it at the centre of the pilgrimage site she created in the town ...

Cardia bought the statue at a Catholic pilgrimage site in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, before its mystical powers supposedly came to light. She alleged that the Madonna di ...

Back in 2014, "mystic" Gisella Cardia bought a statue of the Virgin Mary from a religious site in Medjugorje, Bosnia. Bringing it back to Trevignano Romano, near Rome, Italy, Cardia later made a ...

A large number of pilgrims believed the claim that the statue of the Virgin Mary was crying bloody tears, but DNA analysis revealed whose blood it actually was. Italian woman Gisella Cardia attracted ...

Aerial view of Mount Podbrdo and people on pilgrimage to the statue of Our Lady where the apparitions took place in Medjugorje. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and ...

Ellie O’Byrne revisits one of county Cork’s strangest phenomena: a statue of the Virgin Mary that, in 1985, drew enormous crowds because witnesses believed they had seen it moving ...

Published: November 11, 2024 8:18am EST For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary.

Catholic pilgrims gather to pray near the statue of Virgin Mary in the Bosnian village of Medjugorje. AFP via Getty Images David Murgia, an author and journalist who has written two books about ...