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9 February 2003
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Perth's 'weeping statue'
Official tests on Perth's 'weeping statue' are complete but the investigators' findings are not expected to be announced until later this month.
The statue of the Virgin Mary has been on display at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in the southern Perth suburb of Rockingham, although the 'weeping' of oil from its eyes stopped on January 10, around the time the tests were completed.
The Archbishop of Perth, Archbishop Barry Hickey, appointed the independent committee of inquiry to investigate whether the cause of the weeping could be established.
He appointed Dr Thelma Koppi, a non-Catholic, who is a microbiologist at the University of Western Australia; a surgeon, Dr Michael Shanahan; and a theologian, Fr Kevin Long, of the University of Notre Dame, Perth.
The statue was first seen to 'weep' oil from its eyes on St Joseph's feast day in March last year and then during Easter.
It stopped, then wept again from August 15, the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, until January 10.