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Virgin Mary in Ireland

Limerick : Ireland | 4 months ago  
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The stump of a willow that resembles the Virgin Mary holding the baby has created a lot of excitement in Ireland. It seems workers sprucing up the Holy Mary Parish church saw the striking resemblance. Once the word spread, there was a regular stream of visitors from distant places to place rosary beads and light a candle. Believers want it to be preserved in a glass container while non believers see in it just an ordinary a tree stump that looks like a cloaked lay. There has been similar euphoria when the image of Sai Baba appeared on the wall of a building in Gujarat – it did look like an image of Sai Baba but was an accumulation of mossy substance on a damp wall.

Sai Baba 'appears' on wall

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Sai-Baba-appears-on-wall/articleshow/1924241.cms

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  • Submitted By: prabirghose | 4 months ago
    Noel White, Rathkeale Community Council Graveyard Committee chairman, said workmen sprucing up the church land saw the image when they cut the tree. "One of the lads said look, our Blessed Lady in the tree," Mr White said. "One of the other lads ...
  • News Source: NewKerala | 4 months ago
    The image is said to have attracted hundreds to pray and light candles in the grounds of Holy Mary Parish church, with some believing that the willow should be preserved and covered in glass. Noel White, the Rathkeale Community Council Graveyard...
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | 4 months ago
    Saturday, July 11, 2009 In times of recession, trouble and strife, people tend to turn to religion and spirituality. In the 1980s the Cork village of Ballinspittle was the focus of mass hysteria. Thousands visited the Marian shrine there in the...
  • News Source: Associated Press | 4 months ago
    Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary...Mary's parish church in Rathkeale, population 3,000 or so,...
  • News Source: Times Online | 4 months ago
    It has been 14 years since her last major apparition in Ireland, but the Virgin Mary is back and this time in the lowly form of a tree stump in Limerick. To the dismay of local Catholic Church leaders the freshly severed stump, with its supposed...
  • News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 4 months ago
    Mary's parish church in the village of Rathkeale in County Limerick harkens back to decades past when Catholic devotion and pilgrimages were a dominant feature of rural life in Ireland.
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  • Blog Source: eplay.typepad.com
    Not to be out done by the Michael Jackson tree stump sighting, the Virgin Mary has "appeared" at a tree stump at Holy Mary Parish Church in Ireland. Though the stump looks like it was cut to resemble a standing...
  • Blog Source: thepoormouth.blogspot.com
    The Virgin Mary tree stump. Ah there's nothing like reporting on a good simulacrum story be it a nun in a bun or Alahu Akbar spelled out in the seeds of an aubergine, So here's one from Ireland. The Irish Times reports that almost 2000 ...
  • Blog Source: virginmaryagain.com
    People in Limerick Ireland whose critical thinking skills may already be subject to some doubt based on their ludicrous religious delusions have convinced themselves and each other that the tree stump shown here is really a 2000 year ...
  • Blog Source: bocktherobber.com
    Already we're getting pingbacks of the This could only happen in Ireland variety. Correction. The world is full of religious idiots, most of whom are located in the United States. So please f*** off with your This could only happen in Ireland shit. ..
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