Posted on 9/1/2009, 8:02:16 PM by Alex Murphy
From the Virgin Mary grilled cheese to the mother Mary burned into a potato chip, you've probably heard it all when it comes to her alleged diety appearance on everyday objects.
Now a Northland man claims Mother Mary has materialized in the distinct lines of a Lake Superior agate.
26-year old Jesse Bradshaw been searching for agates throughout Northern Minnesota for at least the last decade.
"These little chips of agates here, they're all clues to what lies beyond. You know the big ones are in here," said Bradshaw.
For this rockhound, the hunt is just as rewarding as the find.
"It's like when I'm out here picking agates nothing else matters. I don't worry about anything else in the world, so it brings me a lot of serenity and peace."
Out here in a gravel pit, you're bound to find an agate or two. But if you're lucky, every once in a while, you'll find a great one.
He's got thousands in his collection already, but there's only 1 getting his attention right now.
"It's not just an agate. There's a lot more to it, that's for sure."
Jesse claims to have found what he believes to be the image of the Virgin Mary on an agate.
"Right here you see a face and a shadow of her eye and a nose and a mouth and a hood around her head there."
It was an image he didn't notice for several months.
"I was kinda having a struggle and I woke up one morning and she was sitting on top of my other agates and staring me right in the face and I knew right away what it represented and I got so emotional;I just wanted to cry right away."
Vision or aberration, his latest find has changed the way he's been seeing things.
"It feels like I've just been smiling every day since, I mean, I haven't had a bad day since I've been carrying her around."
As for value, there have been some offers to purchase the rock, but for Jesse, this sacred sighting has become priceless.
"Not for sale at this point, no, no. Like I said, there's no price, the feeling it's given me is just incredible," Jesse said.
In a gravel pit, Julie Pearce, the Northland's NewsCenter.
Another agate bearing an image resembling the Virgin Mary was found in Duluth last October.
It was sold to the top bidder on e-bay.
Jesse claims to have found what he believes to be the image of the Virgin Mary on an agate. "Right here you see a face and a shadow of her eye and a nose and a mouth and a hood around her head there." It was an image he didn't notice for several months. "I was kinda having a struggle and I woke up one morning and she was sitting on top of my other agates and staring me right in the face and I knew right away what it represented and I got so emotional;I just wanted to cry right away."
looks like a baby hippo
my thought also...some little alien..
I've seen no claims of her apparitions on diet foods yet...
The image is in the top center - looks somewhat like a hooded face.
Good point!
FESTIVAL OF APPARITIONS:
Pretzel Madonna
Funyun Madonna
Chocolate Madonna
Agate Stone Madonna
Madonna in a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Madonna in a Grilled Cheese Sandwich, part 2
Madonna in a Grill
Madonna in a Steam Iron
Madonna in a Beach Pebble
Madonna the Kudzu vine
Madonna in a Road Overpass Water Stain
Madonna in a Road Overpass Water Stain, part 2
Madonna and Jesus in Pancake
Cheetos Jesus
Jesus on a Consecrated Wafer, at a Hospital Chapel
Jesus on a Laundry Room Door
Jesus in a Hospital Window
Jesus in an MRI
Jesus on a Hillside
Jesus the Kudzu vine
Jesus in a Seat Cushion
Jesus on a Toilet Seat's Bumper Sticker
Jesus in a Tortilla (THO)
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That’s what I thought, too.
Its the emperor.
Better go outside for a few minutes.
I see it, but I tend to see faces in lots of things...patches of grass, folds in towels, ruffles on the shower curtain. I can’t say I’ve ever seen the Virgin Mary though. I’m not Catholic, so maybe that doesn’t occur to me. Whatever he sees in it, it gives him comfort. May God bless him.
Maybe the reason he's having problems is that he's been spending the last decade in the gravel pit, and he should have got a job and amounted to something.
I recently hiked around Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor. Fascinating place. It used to be two or three islands and the city of Boston dumped its garbage there. People lived there and ran rendering plants and rag picking. Then when the big dig happened, they dumped the soil there and made one island and covered the garbage of over 100 years. Now its a national park and quite lovely. And the beach combing is wonderful. My sons sweetheart loves to beach comb and found a perfect porcelain head of a woman with a crown - just the head about an inch tall. The more I think about it the more I think its the head of a religious statue, probably the Virgin.
Exactly right.
All of these apparitions are sort of sad, actually.
Looks like a turtle or somethin’.
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