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Is The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai a real miracle?

Assessed by Miracles Jar AI · 2026-06-10

ExplainedIt happened — nature explains it

Miracles Jar rates The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai: A Leaking Drain and an Exile Explained. It happened — and nature accounts for it. Two scales drive that verdict: how extraordinary it would be if it truly happened — naturally explained — and how strong the evidence is — strongly attested.

How miraculous, if true

Naturally explained

Does it break the laws of nature — if it really happened?

How strong the evidence

Strongly attested

Is there evidence it's true?

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Common questions

Is The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai real or fake?
Miracles Jar's verdict is Explained: it happened — nature explains it. It happened — and nature accounts for it. On the evidence, the record is strongly attested.
Has The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai been explained?
The event appears to have happened, but a natural explanation accounts for it — the leading account is spontaneous remission & the body's own recovery. It reads as remarkable rather than miraculous.
What is the evidence for The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai?
Miracles Jar weighs 4 sources for this case. Points that cut against it: A rationalist invited by TV9, examining the site with the church's consent, traced the water to an overflowing drain behind the wall — fed by a pipe from a nearby toilet — drawn up to the statue's feet by capillary action; and The dripping was intermittent and stopped within days (reported about March 5, ended about March 8), consistent with a drainage source rather than a sustained supernatural one.
What is the natural explanation for The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai?
The leading natural account is spontaneous remission & the body's own recovery. Diseases sometimes resolve without treatment, or despite it. “Spontaneous” rarely means “no mechanism” — more often it means a mechanism we are only beginning to instrument. The full breakdown shows where that explanation holds — and where it stops.
When and where did The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai happen?
It is said to have occurred 2012 in Mumbai (Irla, Vile Parle), India.

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