New Claims Over Weeping Madonna
Joe Spagnolo
NEWS.com.au
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Rockingham (Australia):
The mystery of Western Australia's weeping Madonna is being accompanied by new claims that an apparition of the Virgin Mary is appearing regularly at the house where the statue is kept.
Dozens of believers regularly gather at the Rockingham home of statue owner Patty Powell where they say a vision of Mary is appearing nightly at 8 o'clock in the back yard.They claim a 50-year-old Rockingham man, whose identity is being kept from the media, is the only person seeing the apparitions.
But Mrs Powell's twin sister Eileen Giles, 51, said she received messages from Mary. The pair said they had recorded about 700 messages.When The Sunday Times interviewed Mrs Giles this week, the statue was weeping, as it has for several months.
Ms Powell and Mrs Giles said the same rose-scented residue as the "tears" now appeared in the area where they claimed the apparitions take place, and some believers who had visited the site had also left with oil-like stains on their clothing.They said the Virgin Mary had left imprints of her feet on a concrete slab near where she appeared.
Dec 25, 2005
Joe SpagnoloNEWS.com.au
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Rockingham (Australia):
The mystery of Western Australia's weeping Madonna is being accompanied by new claims that an apparition of the Virgin Mary is appearing regularly at the house where the statue is kept.
Dozens of believers regularly gather at the Rockingham home of statue owner Patty Powell where they say a vision of Mary is appearing nightly at 8 o'clock in the back yard.They claim a 50-year-old Rockingham man, whose identity is being kept from the media, is the only person seeing the apparitions.
But Mrs Powell's twin sister Eileen Giles, 51, said she received messages from Mary. The pair said they had recorded about 700 messages.When The Sunday Times interviewed Mrs Giles this week, the statue was weeping, as it has for several months.
Ms Powell and Mrs Giles said the same rose-scented residue as the "tears" now appeared in the area where they claimed the apparitions take place, and some believers who had visited the site had also left with oil-like stains on their clothing.They said the Virgin Mary had left imprints of her feet on a concrete slab near where she appeared.
Dec 25, 2005
