The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has officially declared two alleged supernatural phenomena false: bloody tears of the statue in Trevignano and an increase in the amount of pizza and gnocchi This was reported by Italian Maria Giuseppe Scapulla.

Specifically, the decree is false an alleged supernatural phenomenon attributed to a statue of the Virgin Mary located in the small Italian town of Trevignano Romano, near the shores of Lake Bracciano, about 40 minutes north of Rome, which supposedly shed tears of blood.

The Vatican department, headed by Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, explained in a statement that it analyzed the case “in light” of new norms on recognizing suspected supernatural phenomena published on May 17, which are detailed in the criteria. For recognize ghosts and establishes additional verification mechanisms.

Thus, the Vatican recognizes the “legal validity” of the decisions of Bishop Marco Salvi of Civita-Castellana in a decree of March last year, both in relation to a negative decision on supernatural phenomena as well as a ban on holding celebrations or pilgrimages to the sites of the proposed events.

In addition, he also denounces as false the supposed supernatural events claimed to be witnessed by Maria Giuseppe Scapulla, who calls herself Gisella Cardia, although this is not her real name. increasing the amount of pizza and gnocchi at dinners with people who follow her, thus imitating the miracle of Jesus with the loaves and fishes collected in the Gospels. The Italian also claimed to have a statue of the Virgin Mary, which she bought in Medjugorje, and which cried blood.

However, it was later examined under a microscope by a private detective and he came to the conclusion that the blood stains in this image They actually come from pigs.

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It’s a case that has been repeatedly opposed by the Pontifical International Marian Academy, a Vatican-affiliated organization that runs free Mariology seminars and has set up a 2023 center to study this and other alleged phenomena.

Europe Press