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: