The weeping Madonna of Rockingham is one of many bizarre and unexplained cases of crying statues. A tiny Madonna in Civitavecchia, near Rome, wept tears of blood in 1995, a plaster plaque of the Virgin Mary in Syracuse wept human tears in 1953. In Medjugorje, a modest town has been transformed into a great centre of pilgrimage and religious devotion, after Mary's “miraculous” appearances. Weeping Women provides a window into the world of religious phenomena.