Sorry for the mocking tone but this is just ridiculous....
Irish Catholics say tree stump looks like Mary
DUBLIN – Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.
The phenomenon at St. Mary's parish church in Rathkeale, population 3,000 or so, harkens back to decades when Catholic devotion and pilgrimages were the dominant feature of rural life in Ireland.
Some are tying the fervor for Rathkeale's "Holy Stump" to Ireland's stunning economic decline over the past year.
"People have been crying out for something good to happen. And this is all good for the soul," said Noel White, who has been overseeing a church project to cut down trees dangerously overhanging the neighboring school playground.
Noel, that is anything but good for the soul.
Irish Catholics say tree stump looks like Mary
DUBLIN – Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.
The phenomenon at St. Mary's parish church in Rathkeale, population 3,000 or so, harkens back to decades when Catholic devotion and pilgrimages were the dominant feature of rural life in Ireland.
Some are tying the fervor for Rathkeale's "Holy Stump" to Ireland's stunning economic decline over the past year.
"People have been crying out for something good to happen. And this is all good for the soul," said Noel White, who has been overseeing a church project to cut down trees dangerously overhanging the neighboring school playground.
Noel, that is anything but good for the soul.
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