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Hundreds of curious people flocked to a house in France after hearing the drops of oil flowing from the Virgin Mary picture in the house.

Visitors wiped oil stains on the picture of Mary at the house of Esat Altindagoglu on March 7.Photo: AFP.

The home of Esat Altindagoglu - a Turkish businessman - is located in the town of Garges-les-Gonesse about 20 km north of Paris. Telegraph said, in the last 3 weeks, he has to receive more than 50 people every day. They came here because they wanted to see firsthand the drops of oil flowing from the picture of Mary.

Altindagoglu said a Lebanese priest gave his wife a picture of her 2006 birthday. Oil droplets began to flow from the painting on February 12 this year. Since then the Mother has been crying every day.

"When rumors spread, people in France came to my house. After that, people from all over Europe came, too. Over the past 3 weeks I received 50 to 60 people a day , " Altindagoglu said.

The mother in the picture started "crying" from February 12.Photo: AFP .

Altindagoglu said an Orthodox priest had agreed to hold a ceremony at his home this week to express gratitude to Mary.

"The next job is to invite a bishop to witness the oil droplets from the painting so that this strange phenomenon can be officially recognized by the Church , " Telegraph quoted Altindagoglu.

For centuries people have said hundreds of cries of blood, oil or water. However, only one case was recognized by the Pope as a strange phenomenon in 1973. It was a wooden statue of Mary Mary in Akita Prefecture, Japan, the British newspaper said.