Locals soon became irritated by the increase in traffic, partly because Cardia—real name Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla, per El Pais—started claiming the statue wept ... Mary, but from Jesus Christ ...

At the cross her station keeping stood the mournful mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Lo! the piercing sword had ...

Peter asks her to tell them the words of Jesus which she remembers ... Did He prefer her to us?" Then Mary wept and said to Peter, "My brother Peter, what do you think? Do you think that I ...

Jesus turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the ...