Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Lacrime and the miracle of tearing
On 29-30-31 August and 1 September 1953, a plaster picture depicting the immaculate heart of Mary, placed as the bedside of a double bed, in the house of a young married couple, Angelo Iannuso and Antonina Giusto, in via degli Orti di S. Giorgio, n. 11, shed human tears.
The phenomenon occurred, at more or less long intervals, both inside and outside the house.
Many were the people who saw with their own eyes, touched with their own hands, collected and tasted the salt of those tears.
On the 2nd day of the tear, a cineamatore from Syracuse filmed one of the moments of the tear.
Syracuse is one of the very few events so documented.
On 1 September a commission of doctors and analysts, on behalf of the Archbishopric of Syracuse, after having taken the liquid that gushed from the eyes of the picture, subjected it to microscopic analysis. The response of science was: "human tears".
After the scientific investigation ended, the picture stopped crying. It was the fourth day.
The Church recognized the prodigiousness of the event in a short time and in 1994 St. John Paul II consecrated the Sanctuary, which is the destination of millions of pilgrims every year.
Property included in the IWB register of the Sicily Region (Places of the Sacred) - Sector "Places of the Marian Worship"
- Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Lacrime
Site included in the Regional Charter of memory identity places in the area (LIM) "The Sacred Places": The places of the Marian cult
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