Worshipping Virgin Mary salt stains in Chicago

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Why does Jesus make people stupid?

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― shookout (shookout), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I brought it up in the Chicago thread, but this is less than 4 blocks from my house. There so many people going to look at it, it boggles my pea brain.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Come on - not this again.

It's a fucking hoax.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Dan, how have you not yet succumb to the overwhelming urge to go see the Salt Stain Mary and add some character to it?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh believe me, many different options have been discussed. But, I'm afraid of the several hundred Catholics that are constantly around the thing. That and I don't want to hang out at the overpass at 4 AM or anything like that.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Go hand out condoms.

― Huk-L, Friday, 22 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking maybe glue a word bubble next to her with some sort of humorous phrase scrawled into it.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

This one time, I was on a Catholic pilgrimage (long story - I'm not catholic and didn't know I'd be going on one) and we took a bus to a site where there were supposedly constant visions. It was the most bizarre/interesting event in my life probably - thousands of people pointing to the same places in the sky and screaming and clapping and crying. There were tv crews there. People slept in the mud, many without sleeping bags, because they didn't want to miss anything when they woke up. They saw crosses in shadows, Jesus and Mary both appeared and spoke... I didn't see anything.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

That's because you're going to hell.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like the worst rave ever.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

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Yeah, but so is this guy who was going on the pilgrimage with us studying to be a catholic priest. I was pretty into the Protest Christian thing at the time, so I confessed to him I wasn't see anything and did that make me evil? (I was 15) He said he was struggling with his faith because he didn't see anything either, but not to tell anyone.

Whoops! I just did!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

However, Sarah, there is hope. I hear that if you eat the tequila worm, you'll see visions, too. HALLELUJAH!

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

HAha. I said I was in the 'Protest Christan thing' - I meant 'Protestant.' I really am evil!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I was wondering what the hell a protest Christian was actually, they sound awesome!

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Ya, where do i sign up? I wanna protest me some Christians!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I was wondering what the hell a protest Christian was actually, they sound awesome!

When I saw that I was thinking Catholic liberation theology, possibly crossed over to other sects.

N/A, you might be able to help me with this. Years ago I was told that if in India someone spots a cobra, the faithful will immediately build a shrine on that exact spot, even if it's in the middle of a busy road. Traffic is expected to make way for the holy site.

At America's current rate, the next Virgin Mary sighting will probably be in a pothole, and the god-botherers that will flock to see it will raise a ruckus when someone tries to fix it. Given the ongoing commercial and cultural trends, could America and India somehow be shifting polarities?

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 22 April 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

i'm still trying to wrap my mind around the "virgin mary as a popsicle smear" story from 5 years ago.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 22 April 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

here's the story re "the ice-cream virgin"

Holy cow! Virgin of Guadalupe appears in ice cream
Sidewalk spill in Houston is drawing legions of believers.

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By J.A. Getzlaff

Jan. 25, 2000 | On Jan. 10, residents of a Houston apartment complex spotted the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, also known as Our Lady of Guadalupe, in a puddle of spilled ice cream, according to an Associated Press report.

Since then, hundreds of believers have flocked to the complex, rosaries and point-and-shoot cameras in hand, to see the Mexican saint for themselves. Flowers and candles surround the stain -- located on a patch of concrete in front of a soda machine -- and a pane of glass has been placed over it to protect it and keep it from dissolving.

"I just let 'em in," said apartment manager Maria Cervantes of the believers, many of whom have taken up all-night watch in front of the ice cream.

The religious apparition came one month after Mexico's Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, which celebrates the appearance of the Virgin Mary in Guadalupe in 1531. According to legend, the saint, dressed in brightly colored Indian clothing, appeared on a mountaintop to a peasant named Juan Diego and said she wanted a church built there.

Diego went to the bishop, who didn't believe him. So, to prove her point, the Virgin appeared on the cloth of Diego's cloak. The Basilica de Guadalupe was promptly built, and pilgrims now flock to Guadalupe every December to pay homage to the saint with chanting, singing, dancing and las gorditas de la Virgen -- tiny corn cakes shaped in her image.

Since 1951, Our Lady of Guadalupe has appeared in numerous places, including a tortilla, a puddle of water and a lima bean.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 22 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

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