Posted on 10/16/2009 8:42:26 AM PDT by keat
Nobody can say why the Virgin of Guadalupe would appear on a hunk of rock formed millions of years before the birth of Jesus.
But David Nunez says the image is unmistakable — a bluish-black stain on the football-sized rock outlines what looks like the Holy Mother.
Nunez's father found the partially buried boulder while looking for landscaping rocks in an Oakdale orchard. Nunez and his father, Jesus — both Catholics from Merced — insist that it's hard to dispute that the image resembles the famous image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Merced resident David Nunez holds a rock with a pattern that he says looks like an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, shown at right in a 16th-Century painting. Nunez's father found the rock while searching for landscaping materials in an Oakdale orchard.
Friends have called it a miracle.
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I think he should keep looking. At least he is looking for a virgin in the right place, under a rock.
David Nunez says the image is unmistakable — a bluish-black stain on the football-sized rock outlines what looks like the Holy Mother.
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Madonna in a Grill
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Madonna the Kudzu vine
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Jesus in an MRI
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Question: How does anyone today know what Mary looked like?
I always say that about the Shroud of Turin, too.
Looks like an Arab woman in a burka to me.
When I was a kid I used to find animals in clouds. Rocks are equally random and there are a lot more of them.
I just saw Elvis down at the Burger King. Oh, that’s a whole different thing, isn’t it!
Why is it always Jesus or Mary? Why not Mel Tillis?................
Ah....Zorro!!
Wow. It’s even doing the ‘smug’ thing.
That’s what I thought.
Headline: Rock shaped like Obama FOUND!
I saw the Virgin Mary in my bowl of oatmeal this mornnig. It sure tasted good.
I saw a vision of a grilled cheese sandwich on a vision of Mary.
“Friends have called it a miracle.”
I think he and his friends have a pretty low standard for what constitutes a miracle.
I would call this a Sacramental, not a miracle.
A Sacramental is something that reminds you of your Faith and reminds you to live your Faith.
I’d suggest that the publicity will be a call for many Catholics to pray for America (from the tip of the North to the tip of the South).
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