Posted on 05/23/2011 9:05:03 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Employees at a Harlingen dry cleaner are wondering if wrinkles on a shirt could be the second apparition of the Virgin Mary to appear there.
It all happened at Comet One Hour Cleaners off East Harrison Avenue in Harlingen.
Employees were ironing a shirt when they noticed an usual set of wrinkles that resembled an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
Comet Cleaners first grabbed the attention of the faithful and headlines back in May 2009 when a stain on an ironing board appeared in the image of the revered Catholic figure.
Action 4 News will have the full story and reaction from believers and non-believers about this new reported apparition during our 10 p.m. newscast.
What do you think?
It looks like someone melted the fabric a little.
“How about tortillas?”
You made me laugh. Thanks. No, not tortillas either.
You are probably right. I mean it really does sound stupid. The Virgin Mary decides to show herself in a wrinkled shirt, a piece of toast, a pancake? It makes fun and ridicules Christians in general. See.. look how stupid these people really are?! That type of process. The non-believers don’t just sit comfortably by and allow other people to have their religion. Nope, not a chance. They want God taken off of money, completely out of schools, hospitals etc... They want Him extinct from all human life IMHO.
This is nothing more than an attempt to erode the importance and value of Christian Iconography by making connections between the imagery and random and often offensive objects. This was a cornerstone of the Reformation who saw all religious art as an extension of the Catholic Church.
Relying on their false interpretation of the Decalogue's prohibition against "graven images", they ravaged much of the religious art of Northern Europe. Painting, sculptures, statuary, stained glass windows, and tapestries were destroyed.
The underlying reason is clear; religious art could not be twisted or reinterpreted as easily as Scripture and, to a generally illiterate population, the art was a primary source of Christian education.
The fact that so much survives and continues to speak to mankind at a level not manipulable by reformers still drives them nuts.
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