title: Bleeding Hands, Weeping Stone: True Stories of Divine Wonders, Miracles, and Messages
author:  Elizabeth Ficocelli 
description: <DIV>In brisk, easy-to-read accounts,&#160;<I>Bleeding Hands, Weeping Stone</I>&#160;relates the amazing (but true) stories of:&#160;<BR /><BR /> - The woman who stole a Host from church and hid it at home, only to find that it had turned to real human flesh<BR /> - The apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary that put an end to human sacrifice in Mexico - and the miraculuous image she left for us there<BR /> - The arrogant knight who demanded the largest Host at Communion - the hols where the stone floor started to swallow him are still visible today!<BR /> - Saints who could levitate, glow with inner lights, or appear two places at once, and whose bodies did not decompose even hundreds of years after death.&#160;<BR /><BR /> ... and many more miracles, from the famous to the forgotten.&#160;</DIV>
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  The Splendid Idle Forties
  
  
  [THE PEARLS OF
  LORETO](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_001.html#filepos4718)
  
  [THE EARS OF TWENTY
  AMERICANS](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_002.html#filepos72235)
  
  [THE WASH-TUB
  MAIL](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_002.html#filepos196655)
  
  [THE CONQUEST OF DONA
  JACOBA](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_003.html#filepos238054)
  
  [A RAMBLE WITH
  EULOGIA[1]](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_003.html#filepos304874)
  
  [THE ISLE OF
  SKULLS](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_004.html#filepos381225)
  
  [THE HEAD OF A
  PRIEST](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_004.html#filepos421463)
  
  [LA PERDIDA](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_004.html#filepos473406)
  
  [LUKARI'S STORY](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_004.html#filepos481552)
  
  [NATALIE IVANHOFF: A MEMORY OF FORT
  ROSS](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_split_004.html#filepos498197)
  
  [THE VENGEANCE OF PADRE
  ARROYO](The%20Splendid%20Idle%20Forties_spli