Back in 2018 , a church building in New Mexico claimed that their statue of the Virgin Mary was " weeping " liquid from its eyes . It all started on May 20 , 2018 – Pentecost Sunday in the Catholic spiritual calendar – when the parishioners of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces reportedly see the statue crying tears during a noon mass .

The event bring a huge issue of people to the church looking for conversion , confession , and just to see it happen . The " weeping " allegedly fall out several times , accord to Judy Ronquillo , the business manager of the local church , who talked to theWashington Postin 2018 .

expert   analyzed the substance and reason it was olive oil mixed with aroma , similar in composition to chrisom , the holy anointment balm often used in Christian rite such as baptism . However , church sanction reportedly could not establish where the oil was coming from .

To explicate the case , some doubter suggested the church had determine up the situation as a hoax to play more masses into the church . The diocese ’s officials denied this , exact photographic camera in the church building show it was n’t an orchestrated stunt .

While weeping olive oil might seem like a peculiar event , weep statues have been a common occurrence in the Catholic world for the last seven decades . produce a fake weeping statue is relatively soft – sometimes it happens naturally through compression , but typically even the most innovative approach are not too complicated .

Hoaxes are   so easy to do that the Catholic Church itself either moves fairly quickly with police detective or does n’t take an prescribed stance and countenance it play out . Only a couple of weeping statues have been recognise by the Church .

In the last few decades , there have been several widely advertize cases in Italy where statue began cry blood . In 2002 , a statue of Catholic nonsuch Padre Pio was seen with   " tears " of blood , which turn out to go   to a woman . In 2008 , a church service custodian was put on tryout for forge blood tears on a statue of the Virgin Mary . His deoxyribonucleic acid matched that   of the “ tears ” .

The most controversial case was a Virgin Mary statue in 1995 in the Italian town of Civitavecchia , where about60 people claimedthey saw a statue throw away blood tears on 14 occasions . The rake was found to be male . The owner of the statue , a gentleman called Fabio Gregori , refuse to take a DNA test .

An other version of this clause waspublishedin July 2018 .