The amazing image of the Virgin Mary — on a garage wall


To the faithful, the Virgin Mary appears as an apparition on a retaining wall attached to Freddy Montero’s garage.

I think as soon as my bud "Uncle Dave" returns to the United States — and Las Vegas — he should be assigned the task of providing quality digital images of this latest sighting of the Virgin Mary.

To the faithful, the Virgin Mary appears as an apparition on a retaining wall attached to Freddy Montero’s garage.

“As soon as you walk up to it, you can feel her presence,” visitor Stacy Veloz said as she stood in the Monteros’ driveway and admired the image, half-hidden behind scrub brush at the edge of a red rock yard.

Holy images that appear in mundane forms, such as on a grilled cheese sandwich or the side of someone’s garage, must be formally investigated before the Catholic Church will offer any official endorsement, said the Rev. Bob Stoeckig, a Las Vegas Diocese official and pastor at St. Joseph, Husband of Mary Church in Las Vegas.

Freddy Montero decided the pattern was really dried salt residue from a long-gone sprinkler. He said he doesn’t care to look at it anymore.

Just another addition to our “Xmas Miracle” stories.

Posted: Sat - December 23, 2006 at 10:47 AM