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#Our lady of the underpass windows#
Worldwide, people have been drawn to images believed to resemble the Virgin Mary seen on windows, fence posts and walls.Īmong the best-known in the United States was an image seen in office windows in Clearwater, Florida.
"If that image helps more people feel closer to God then maybe that is a good sign." "I see just a concrete wall and an image that could happen anywhere," Robles said. To them, it reaffirms their faith."īut onlooker Victor Robles, 36, said he was skeptical about the stain's Virgin Mary resemblance. (The meaning) depends on the individual who sees it. "Sometimes people ask us to look into it. "These things don't happen every day," Dwyer said. Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread: This topic is archived. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago had not received any requests to authenticate the image as of Monday, spokesman Jim Dwyer said. Latest: Greatest: Lobby: Journals: Search: Options: Help: Login: Our Lady of the Underpass: Year Four. The image drew jeers and cheers for years, until it was spray-painted with devil horns and then covered over by city officials.
"We're treating this just like we treat any type of roadside memorial," said IDOT spokesman Mike Claffey. Recently, I reported the conclusion of the saga that unfolded from the 2005 discovery of a Virgin Mary image under a highway in Chicago. The agency does not plan to scrub it off the wall. The stain is likely the result of salt run-off, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation. A police officer kept the crowd of about three dozen from getting too close to the traffic but didn't stop them gathering around the stain. Tuesday morning, women knelt with rosary beads behind a police barricade while men in work shirts stood solemnly before the image, praying. "We have faith, and we can see her face." "We believe it's a miracle," said Elbia Tello, 42. Beside the image is an artist's rendering of the Virgin Mary embracing Pope John Paul II in a pose some see echoed in the stain. Police have patrolled the emergency turnoff area under the Kennedy Expressway since Monday as hundreds of people have walked down to see the image and the growing memorial of flowers and candles that surround it. A steady stream of the faithful and the curious, many carrying flowers and candles, have flocked to an expressway underpass for a view of a yellow and white stain on a concrete wall that some believe is an image of the Virgin Mary.
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