HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE ON MADONNA OF CIVITAVECCHIA
VATICAN CITY, FEB 6, 1997 (VIS) - In answer to journalists' questions today
concerning facts relative to the Madonna of Civitavecchia, a port city near
Rome where a statue of the Virgin has allegedly shed tears of blood, Holy See
Press office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls stated: "There is no imminent
pronouncement from the diocese of Civitavecchia on these facts. The question
is still being studied."
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