If the Catholic Church certifies this as a miracle, then the news for us isn’t very good.
Myrrh, while smelling nice, and being even more valuable than gold back in the time of Jesus, was used as an embalming agent.
In fact, some Bible scholars have analyzed the meaning of the three gifts - gold, frankensence, and myrrh - the myrrh being a foretelling us his death, the other two being gifts fit for a king.
I’m not shocked at all to hear that miracles are going to begin to occur. I wouldn’t be surprised to find people start having strange and identical dreams either.
Crying embalming fluid, to me, is more frightening than statues weeping blood, for example.
there are easy ways to fake such “weeping”
scientists routinely demonstrate it via ordinary objects like mona lisa or cartoon charater figurines.
It is a parlor trick.
The relics of ST. Nicholas, currently in Italy, have produced myrrh for over 1000 years.
Indeed myrrh can be seen as a sign of resurrection, not death or burial. On the morning of the first Easter, the women were carrying myrrh to the tomb when they heard the news of the resurrection from the Angel. Indeed, in Orthodoxy, we call them, "The myrrh bearing women."
I recently spoke with a monk who has seen this particular icon and touched the myrrh. He told me there was so much myrrh it went through the glass covering the icon. He also told me that in the past a small tray was placed under the icon to catch the myrrh. The flow stopped until the tray was removed.