Statue of St. Therese weeps blood, Baguio Philippines
July 14, 2004 - Statue of St. Therese in Baguio weeps blood. Reported insunstar.com. Baguio City- Roman Catholic devotees started flocking to the Baguio Cathedral on Tuesday morning after hearing reports of a wooden statue of St. Therese reportedly shedding tears of blood. As early as 6 a.m. Tuesday, a number of Catholic followers waited outside the Cathedral to open its doors after Fr. Vicente Castro, the parish priest, confirmed that St. Therese indeed wept blood. Castro told reporters he came to know about it when his male assistant informed him that two women churchgoers wiped with tissue paper the blood that reportedly came out from the eyes of St. Therese. He said they convinced the women to turn over the tissue to them for possible laboratory examination to see if it is indeed human blood. The parish priest, however, learned it was churchgoer Christopher Fergis, 26, who first noticed the statue was crying and informed other devotees who were left behind after the Monday afternoon mass. Fergis told reporters he was wondering why he decided to stay after the mass, claiming an unknown force brought him to stand before the statue of St. Therese, where he witnessed it weeping blood. "When I was in front of the St. Therese statue, I heard voices coming from nowhere and was telling me we should pray for unity and pray for our leaders," Fergis said as several devotees tried to approach and ask him of what he had witnessed. He revealed he's been dreaming about Mother Mary for almost a week and decided to attend a mass at the Baguio Cathedral on Monday afternoon. Some parishioners who flocked to the Baguio Cathedral said they
prayed for peace for the while world while some said they prayed
for the release of Angelo de la Cruz, a Filipino being held hostage
by Iraqi rebels and threatened with beheading if the Philippine government
would not pull out its humanitarian troops from Iraq. The "weeping" of
blood by St. Therese statue occurred four days ahead the 14th commemoration
of the July 16, 1990 killer
temblor that devastated Baguio and its environs, killing thousands
of residents and visitors. July 14, 2004 - Statue of St. Therese in Baguio wept blood. Reported in The Philippine Star. Written by Artemio Dumlao. Baguio City - The faithful and the curious have been flocking to the Baguio Cathedral after word spread that a churchgoer saw the statue of St. Therese weeping what appeared to be blood last Monday afternoon. "This is the first time that something like this happened in the cathedral," said Fr. Vicente Castro, 66, the diocesan parish priest, adding that he has to consult a doctor if it was really blood. "What was spine-tingling was that even the Baby Jesus which St. Therese cuddles was almost splattered with blood," he said. Church helper Denver Fernandez, 26, recounted that at about 4:30 p.m. last Monday, a man in his 20s informed him that he saw the two-foot tall, cement-cast statue of St. Therese weeping blood. When he went to check it, Fernandez, who has served in the cathedral for over a year, said he was astonished to find blood oozing from the statue’s eyes and flowing down to its feet. "We wiped it with a tissue paper and it really looked like it was blood," he said. Fernandez quoted the unidentified man as saying that he had dreamt about the statue of St. Therese weeping blood a week ago. The church helper said he again saw the man intently praying in front of the statue at about 6 a.m. yesterday. July 15, 2004 - Little Flower seen shedding tears of blood. Reported in inq7.net. Written by Vincent Cabreza. Baguio City. While Catholic devotees prayed for divine intervention to save the life of truck driver Angelo de la Cruz, a 26-year-old man reported seeing blood drip from the statue of St. Therese of the Child Jesus at the Baguio Cathedral here on Monday. Christopher Fergis, a choir member of another Baguio church, said he was praying in front of the image of St. Therese when he noticed blood trickling down its cheek. Fergis claimed that he had been praying the rosary in front of the image for the past week because he had been dreaming about the Virgin Mary. Other witnesses - At least 20 other churchgoers here reported witnessing what they called a miracle. Many of them claimed to have included De la Cruz in their daily prayers in church. Winnie Sapid, a lay apostolic worker, said she saw the blood on the cheek of the St. Therese statue fall on the small crucifix held close to the image's chest. Therese entered the Carmel of Lisieux in France at 15 years of age. At 24, as she lay dying of tuberculosis, Therese pressed her crucifix to her heart while looking up saying, "I love Him. My God, I love you." Lab test for blood - "I was serving when (Fr. Vicente Castro, the parish priest) ordered me to guard the image so people won't wipe away the blood. The first set of blood caught in a handkerchief has been sent out to the laboratories for testing," Sapid told fellow layworkers, who were milling around the ceramic icon.
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