These stories come up now and then. Today the now.. This time dateline Malaysia..
The story of the smiling Virgin Mary statue can be read in its entirety here..
The highlighted portion I paid attention to:
Her eyes were moving very slowly, all of us were there and we saw it.
“The father (the priest) was saying, ‘Look at her, she’s looking at us. She was full of life, she had a lot of tears in her eyes’.
“When we started singing ‘Ave Maria’, she started smiling and her lips were moving. It has touched all of us.
– See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/citynews/greater-kl/article/weeping-growing-virgin-mary-statue-inspire-subang-jaya-church-parishioners/weeping-growing-virgin-mary-statue-inspire-subang-jaya-church-parishioners#sthash.9DjSKifJ.dpuf