The DNA on a statue of the Madonna alleged to have wept blood and to have been linked to miraculous Marian apparitions belongs to the self-professed 'seer' who brings credulous believers to her gatherings at a lakeside village north of Rome every month, a forensic expert has found, according to a report in the la Repubbica daily Monday.
A year ago the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog confirmed a decree by a local bishop asserting that alleged sightings of the Madonna at Trevignano north of Rome were not supernatural in nature and warning the faithful from organising or attending gatherings at the alleged apparition site.
On June 27, 2024 the Vatican Department for the Doctrine of the Faith recognised the "juridical validity" of the decree with which the bishop of Civita Castellana, Msgr.
Marco Salvi, had declared on 6 March last that the alleged apparitions of Our Lady in Trevignano were not supernatural, and warned "the faithful to refrain from organising and/or participating in private and/or public meetings (be they prayer and/or catechetical) that would give as certain and indubitable the supernatural truth of the events of Trevignano".
In his March 6 decree Msgr Salvi declared the non-supernatural nature of the alleged apparitions of the Madonna in Trevignano, on the shores of Lake Bracciano.
