Pope Francis said on Sunday (June 4) that apparitions of the Virgin Mary are not real, in what appeared to be an indirect reference to a woman who drew thousands of pilgrims to a town near Rome to pray before a statue that she claimed shed tears of blood.

Virgin Mary statue row | Pope Francis says Virgin Mary apparitions not always real: Report

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Virgin Mary statue row | Pope Francis says Virgin Mary apparitions not always real: Report