Virgin Mary or Salt Spot?

Did anyone see that thing on the news about the supposed silhouette of the virgin mary looking over on the picture of the last pope? it looked like a discolouration spot to me... any commentators on this one?
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I never saw it, anyone know where ic an see a copy of this pic?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/20/mary.underpass.ap/index.html

it's an article and a small picture on it
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kl thanks!

hmmmmmmm....i just looked at it and im not sure either :S hmm...any1 else?

Looks like it's something on the wall to me.

Vatican created nonsense.

dude... whoever saw that and thought "hmmm.. that looks like the virgin mary.." needs to go to some sort of insane assylum... seriously, people have TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS!!!!

yeah really, i'd like to know who first thought they saw it.
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no.. this is the first i've ever heard of such a thing except for the thing about jesus on the grilled cheese sandwich.... *snigger* now THAT'S America for you!

Ok...now I can't even see what 'stain' they're talking about! LOL...is it just me who thinks someone was a bit cuckoo when they said it looked like the Virgin Mary?!

In times of trouble when people need faith they will often find it in the strangest places...

lmao mystic thoughts!!!

I just looked at that picture and I agree with Kaitlin, there is something on the wall.

haha wow, the grilled cheese sandwhich from God. people never cease to amaze me
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I think this is in line with the topic a magnificent cathedrial stands now in Lourdes were the Virgin appeared to Bernadette

At the time of Bernadette, the Grotto was a dirty, hidden, damp and cold place. The Grotto was called the "pigs' shelter" because that was where the pigs feeding in the area usually took shelter. It was there that the Virgin Mary, dressed in white, a sign of total purity, the sign of the Love of God, in other words, the sign of what God wishes to accomplish in each of us, deigned to appear. There is a contrast between this damp and obscure Grotto and the presence of the Virgin Mary, "the Immaculate Conception". It reminds us of the Gospel: the meeting of the wealth of the goodness of God and the poverty of the human person. "Jesus goes to sit at the table of sinners", "because he came to search out that which was lost".

At Lourdes, the fact that Mary had appeared in a dirty and obscure Grotto, in the place called Massabielle, the Old Rock, tells us that God comes to join us where we are, in the midst of our poverty and failures.
The Grotto is not only a place where something happened - a geographical place - it is also a place where God gives us a sign by revealing his heart and our heart. It is a place where God leaves us a message, a message that is nothing other than that of the Gospel. God comes to tell us that he loves us, - this is the heart of the Message of Lourdes, and he loves us as we are with all our successes but also with all our wounds, our weaknesses and our limitations

ooooooo
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that was a corny joke.... but i amused me all the same
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In view of the sucess of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST I doubt if anyone will make a move'Honey I shrunk the Christ'

LMAO in reply to Mystic Thoughts!

someone will undoubtedly try to capitalize upon this though
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