but not like this one.
Lionel Gonzalez says he wasn’t the first to notice the ice shaped like the Virgin Mary outside his home. His friend, Jose Perez, did.
Perez stepped into his mobile home Wednesday afternoon and said, “Hey, you know you got the Virgin Mary out there!”
“Don’t be playin’ about that,” Gonzalez responded. “You don’t play about that.”
But Perez insisted. So outside they went and found Mary, in ice, at the base of the hitch on his home at Northgate Mobile Home Park, head tilted down, hands clasped in prayer at her chest.
When Gonzalez told people about it, they asked whether he’d carved it. No, he hadn’t, he said. It’s smooth and rounded. It’s also frozen to the wall of his home, so no one put it there, either. No water drips onto it; it’s too cold. In fact, it is under a window cover, which itself is under an eave. So he can’t explain how Mary arrived there.
There is a picture of it available and it just looks like a lump of ice to me.
In Orlando back in 2007, a similar icy Mary was discovered in a store freezer.
Morton Thrifty Foods employee Alma Avalos said when she went to the back she noticed that some drops of water from the ceiling had frozen.
As more and more people began to hear about the Virgin Mary, they started traveling in droves to see the ice.
Some people cried when they spotted the ice and others said it answered their prayers.
“I had a lump in my breast and yesterday when I went home it disappeared,” a woman said. “I don’t have it no more.”
Others said they believe the ice formation is the real thing.
I don’t know what to make of stories like these. I get the desire to believe in something, but really, a slab of ice isn’t something to worship unless it’s a really really hot day and the air conditioning is shot.
I think human beings are generally nuts and adding religion to the mix brings a whole new flavour…
