Let’s Go To the Video: Discerning Statue Phenomena

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Let’s place a few items up for discernment.

First, visuals. Is there really a miraculous “shroud” impression of Saint Padre Pio? More on that in a moment. But first:

It was New York broadcaster Werner Wolf who made famous the expression, “Let’s go to the video-tape.” These days, it’s “let’s go to Youtube.”

And so we’ll leave it at that — reports, in recent years, of statue phenomena — for each person to individually discern.

From Youtube:

In Tapao, Viet Name, did Mary’s head turn and her cloak wave in the breeze?

How about northern Israel?

And Bangalore?

And Fresno, California? (live dripping at 1:57)

Now, did, as one blogger reports, Padre Pio once wipe his face and create what is akin to a modern version of the Shroud — integrating his own visage with that of Christ?

This is the alleged mage:

It turns out that in February of 1968, a man awaiting Padre Pio had wiped the sweat off his hands with a handkerchief and when the future saint arrived, he spotted the cloth and took it from the man, wiped his own face with it (even though it was winter), and handed it back. Later, returning to San Giovanni Rotundo, the image of Padre Pio appeared when the handkerchief was washed with water at the shrine — during the anniversary week of Pio’s first death [read full account here].
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Or so, again, it is alleged… for your reckoning!
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[resources: The God of Miracles and Michael Brown retreats: Cincinnati and Connecticut]