Is a Statue of Mary Weeping Oil?

I’m going to try not to make WeirdCatholic.com “Weeping Statue Central,” but this one is new and unusual enough, and the Washington Post did a not-horrible story on it, which is already a minor miracle.  In Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Hobbs, New Mexico, a seven-foot tall bronze statue of Our Lady of…

Statue of Jesus Has Human Teeth

The statue of Jesus as the “Lord of Patience,” kept at the church of San Bartolo in Cuautlalpan Mexico, was gruesome enough before an art restorer subjected it to x-rays. That’s when the blood-drenched figure of a suffering Jesus was discovered to have an unexpected feature: its teeth are human. See for yourself: The teeth are unlikely…