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Father Frank Shore (Ed Harris) emerges from a self-imposed exile to help the church investigate a claim for sainthood. A statue of the Virgin Mary is said to shed tears of blood every November, the month of death of a pious woman called Helen O'Regan. It is said that on the day of her death, a little girl called Maria was cured of terminal lupus when the blood from the statue dripped on to her.
Father Frank Shore (Ed Harris) emerges from a self-imposed exile to help the church investigate a claim for sainthood. A statue of the Virgin Mary is said to shed tears of blood every November, the month of death of a pious woman called Helen O'Regan. It is said that on the day of her death, a little girl called Maria was cured of terminal lupus when the blood from the statue dripped on to her.
Shore has his own dragons to slay. In the past, he had ruled one such case as a non-miracle thereby killing the faith of many believers. He believes that he has thereby undone the faith of many.
As the investigation for the sainthood of Helen O'Regan continues, Shore is increasingly attracted to Helen's daughter, Roxanne (Anne Heche). The church's machinations on the matter of sainthood is in line with his own initial distrustful beliefs, but he unravels information from Helen's past that changes his mind.
Ironically, as the church sets out to debunk the claim for sainthood, Shore rediscovers his own faith.
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