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The Virgin Mary

December 6, 2005A Funyun shaped like the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Jesus sold online for $609.
Source:

The Miami Herald

May 6, 2005In Chicago a vandal painted the words “big lie” over a stain on a roadside wall that many people believe is an apparition of the Virgin Mary; onlookers wept as a road crew covered the stain with brown paint.
Source:

Reuters

April 22, 2005Many people thought that a stain on a wall in Chicago was actually a miraculous apparition of the Virgin Mary.
Source:

Reuters

October 22, 2002 Vatican sources said that Pope John Paul II, who says that he has entrusted his future to the Virgin Mary, will add five new mysteries to the rosary.
July 23, 2002 Officials in Catania, Sicily, bolted iron underwear onto a local statue of a stallion, covering its shame in preparation for a religious procession during which a statue of the Virgin Mary would pass the horse.
December 26, 2000Many Roman Catholics were hoping that Pope John Paul II would use his absolute power in such matters to declare the Virgin Mary a co-redeemer with Jesus Christ; 6 million Catholics, including 550 bishops and 42 cardinals, have signed petitions beseeching the Pope to do so, which effectively would make the Virgin a god.
October 3, 2000The Virgin Mary appeared in a dirty window in Perth Amboy, New Jersey; people came from miles around to pray.

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