Woman sees Virgin Mary in crabapple tree
Sheesh!
The story began in early November when Bertha Silva Martinez and her husband, Donald Martinez, were leaving for the funeral of his uncle, Dennis Garcia. She suddenly felt dizzy and told her husband to go without her.
Bertha Martinez said she sat down in a chair near the front door and began to count the trees in her yard. When she got to one of the crabapple trees she had planted there 25 years earlier, she focused on what looked like the image of a veiled woman, formed by peeling bark on one of the tree’s three main branches…
Martinez recalled how images of Jesus appeared on a plastered wall of an abandoned building in Holman, N.M., near Mora, in 1975, and in a freshly grilled tortilla in Lake Arthur, N.M., near Roswell, in 1977. She said she even went to Holman 33 years ago to see the image, but couldn’t make it out.
Roman Catholic faithful have been drawn to scenes of such sightings in other parts of the country, as well. The Virgin Mary’s image has been spotted in clouds over Lubbock, Texas, in 1988; in the window of a new building in Clearwater, Fla., in 1997; in a stain on a concrete wall of an expressway underpass in Chicago in 2005; in the cut surface of a tree branch in Cleveland in 2006 and in a pizza pan in Houston only last year.
I hope you didn’t miss out on any of these divine happenings.
Posted: Tue - March 18, 2008 at 06:36 AM