This 1979 photograph shows the teary-eyed Our Lady of Akita statue at the Seitai Hoshikai (The Institute of the Handmaids of the Holy Eucharist) convent in Akita prefecture. In January 1975, 12 years after a local sculptor carved the statue from the wood of a Japanese Judas tree, it began to cry. Over the next 6 years, around 2,000 witnesses reported seeing the statue weep 101 times. The quantity and frequency of the tears varied each time -- sometimes the statue cried a few times per day, and sometimes it went months, and even years, without crying. The statue, which is still housed at the Akita convent, shed its final tears in September 1981.
[Photo: Kanshin]
jim
Wow, it's amazing what an eyedropper can do.
[]some kid
it is not a prank you would not travel all around the country to put bloood on her,,, maybe it is a sign from god saying he is real belive... but nobody knows this is a belive we can argue with a belive because it is what your own self belives but we are never rong we are always right, a fact is always true you can never say a facts is rong...
A fact is a 100% correct
Abelive is a belive we are always right..
virgin mary could or could not be crying but come on PPL
thanks for the comments from you all.
[]Atty. NICANOR H. LAZARO
Me and my Family have visited the Crying Lady of Akita years ago and wanted to comeback with a couple of our friends. Do you have any program for such short time visit? Accommodations available? How about tour packages? Will appreciate suggestions by way of immediate reply.
Thanks.
Atty. NICANOR H. LAZARO
E-Mail Add: legalsrv@pldtdsl.net
[]Barbara
I visited the crying lady of Akita, but she did not cry when we were there. It's an amazing phenomenon.
[]SomeKid
It happened all over the world! I know its not a prank! Seriously! Who in the right mind would travel around the world to pour blood on statues? IT JESUS PPL! or in this case...MARY PPL!
[]person man
The religious masses are naturally gullible anyway. Just pay a few people to claim they saw the statue crying, snap a few pictures with strategically placed water dripped below the eye, and Wham, thousands of people will empty their wallet in hopes of witnessing a so-called miracle. The only real miracle is why people keep believing this bulls#!t. It's a tourist trap, a way of bringing commerce to their little burg. I think I'm gonna start making people believe that my lawn gnome is crying, or maybe my teddy bear. Praise Jesus.
[]Mtinamer
I'll pray for you who do not believe, will then your souls be saved from the firy Hell...
[]Ivan Beukelman
God is great worship him!
[]Zahir shamsery
I was just turning the pages of a Bangla national daily.
[]Now a day, I don't like to read the dailies, it is full of big lies of hypocrite politicians or news of murder in Bangladesh or in abroad, unethical criticism of the opposition against the ruling party or some promise of the ruling party to the people which will never be accomplished.
News catches my eyes under the caption 'The statue cried'.
It makes me interested and surprised too.
I never knew that such incidence happened.( I was never be religious)
I some time think, but don't get any reply.
What would happen to Mary, Jesus, Muhammad if they would have to live in present society?
Me
omg thats amazing i might do that and prank my mates
[]jake
what a prank its mint amazing what u can do with a bit of water
[]some kid
GOD, MARY, JESUS, ANGELS JUST BELIVE WHAT YOU WANNA BELIVE A BELIVE IS ALWAYS RIGHT GOSH
E.G - - IM BORN ON THE 12/2/90 is this a fact no it isnt because nobody here knows i couls be lieing
[]Jesus
It is real.
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