Hundreds of faithful in the southern Italian town of Acerra, outside Naples, have asked the local bishop to return a statue of the Virgin Mary, believed to be miraculous.He removed the statue from the small church of San Peter the Apostle in 2006 after reports that thousands of people claimed to have seen the legs of the statue appear through the dress of the statue and move.
Rinaldi ordered an investigation to verify the claims.
The faithful collected over 200 signatures asking the bishop to return the statue and are expected to deliver their request to him in the next few days, said local daily Il Mattino.
"After an article published in a special publication dedicated to the Virgin of Medjugorje, we decided to go ahead with the petition. In the article it said the Virgin prepared an army of devotees, which held a cross on one hand and a rosary on the other, just like the statue of Acerra," said Franco Barbetta, coordinator of the local civil defence department.
Acerra is a small town of 54,000 inhabitants located 20 kilometres outside Naples, the provincial capital of Campania.
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