CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy: On the third of every month, hundreds of the faithful gather in a windswept field in a village near Rome, where they believe a statue of the Virgin Mary is crying tears of blood.

They also come to see the 53-year-old woman who they believe has been performing miracles and healing the sick since she brought the statuette home from a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where many Catholics believe the mother of Jesus has been appearing since 1981.

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