02-27-2007, 06:54 AM
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Why indeed...
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Originally Posted by Nathan";p="
Tedminator:
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anyway, friends, can you stop making fun of my home state? Yes, we have a lot of wackos here but we also have a lot more general population.
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hmmm, yeh well, ok. Only because I'm feeling generous today.
BUT not before I share this:
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Pizza pan marked by super supreme being
February 27, 2007
HOUSTON, Texas: When an image of the Virgin Mary appeared on one of their pizza pans on Ash Wednesday, the dinner ladies at Pugh Elementary School knew that it had to be more than just the cheese and pepperoni talking. This had to be a message from God. Guadalupe Rodriguez, 59, who had scrubbed at the greasy stain to no avail, hastened to the head teacher for a second opinion. The principal confirmed that the school kitchens seemed to have been singled out for divine intervention.
Within hours, the apparition had become the talk of Houston and the pan a focus for pilgrims. One woman arrived at dawn the next day to seek healing for her disabled grandson; another prayed for God's blessing on her eight-year-old's coming hospital operation. Throughout the weekend, worshippers flocked to the home where the pan is now on display to pay their respects. "I see an image of the Blessed Mother. It's a sign that something is going to happen," one visitor, Vincent Santiago, said.
This is not the first time that the Virgin Mary's face has appeared in unlikely places. Previous examples of simulacra -- religious images appearing on inanimate objects -- include a grilled cheese sandwich bearing the outline of the Madonna, which fetched $US28,000 on the internet for its Florida owner in 2004. She preserved the sandwich in a plastic container, after noticing a Virgin Mary shape on the bread. In 2005, hundreds of visitors left flowers, candles and rosaries in a Chicago underpass after salt residue created a stain resembling the Virgin Mary.
Scientists call this phenomenon religious pareidolia, when the eye sees religious images in objects such as tree trunks and grilled cheese sandwiches. But for true believers, science has nothing to do with it.
The so-called miracle of Pugh Elementary unfolded as Ms Rodriguez scoured the pans that had been used to cook the pupils' lunch of pizza, chicken nuggets and cookies. "On the third rinse, I started watching it, trying to discover what it was," she said. "It showed to me like it is the Virgin Mary."
Anel Villareal, a pupil, recalled the excitement around the school. "They said, 'The Virgin is in the cafeteria' and I ran over there to see and, my God, it was the Virgin. I cried when I see her with my own eyes."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-29677,00.html
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