Posted on 12/21/2016 4:46:17 AM PST by marshmallow
I posted something 8 days ago on my Facebook page that has kept me busy with correspondence all week. It’s been shared and re-shared (update: thousands and thousands of times) and I’ve heard from people from all around the world. Up to this point, I have not shared any thoughts about it. I’ve simply shared the photo without much comment. However, since this image was entrusted to me, I feel a responsibility to say a few things. First, let me rehash the story:
A week ago Sunday, due to my poor shower time management (1 shower for 6 people), we experienced a “shower production bottleneck” and couldn’t get everyone through in time to make our customary 11:00 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral. So I bailed out and hit the 11:45 a.m. Mass at Sacred Heart Basilica at Notre Dame. Afterwards, it was snowing that wet and heavy snow. On my way to the parking lot, I instinctively stopped at the Grotto where I was touched by the presence of one lone student kneeling devoutly in prayer. I decided to take a photo because this guy – he looked like some kind of athlete – didn’t move the whole time. Snow was piling up on him. As soon as I took the photo, my iPhone suddenly shut down despite the fact that I had a 42% charge. It was 1:50 p.m.
Nine hours later, when everyone was in bed, I had forgotten all about taking this photo and I went to free up some memory from my phone by deleting things. As I sat at our dining room table, I was astonished to see this image of a vertical cloud directly above the student. When I took the picture, I can assure you that there was nothing there.
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WOW!
Why cant the Virgin Mary appear without being photoshoped?
..and now an extinction level asteroid is gonna destroy Indiana!
Yes, this is a special place even with tourists milling about.I once sat looking at the rose colored window and felt a Presence.Thank you for your story.It blessed me today.
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints.
Apostle John
I had that same image in my granola this morning.
Thanks for posting. What is that person along the wrought-iron fence doing?
Exactly.
The intellectual dishonesty of reporters is astonishing. I lost count of the stories containing a sentence along the lines of: “A Carbon-14 test in 1988 proved that the Shroud is a Medieval painting.”
That’s something like saying: “This thermometer shows that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.”
Is this a dog-miracle appearance, or simply a cloud that appears to many of us as a dog? What we know is that it is not a dog.
Amazing story.
If anyone is looking for a natural explanation, this appears to be a cold weather fumarole Cool surrounding air is drawn into the lower levels of the Grotto where it picks up a little moisture as it is warmed. The warm air rises, cools, the moisture condenses and under favorable conditions becomes visible as a slowly rising fog. Apparently this particular cloud was not dense enough to be noticed by the writer, but the physics of the camera was able to detect it.
Somewhat similar phenomena resulting from fortuitous configurations of small animal dens, road culverts and other drainage systems can sometimes be seen in the cold of winter. Also related is the early morning mist arising from warm bodies of water after a strong cold front has gone through, mostly seen in the fall. Wind will quickly dissipate any of these things.
Pfl
The picture at the top was NOT photo shopped. Take a close look at it and you will see the Blessed Virgin Mary.
One of my saplings just got accepted to Notre Dame
BVM ping
Silly Catholic’s find apparitions in everything. I must say though, Notre Dame is the most beautiful campus I’ve ever been on.
I see a tiny statue of the Virgin Mary in a alcove, and a guy kneeling at the railing facing away, looks like candles burning set up for prayer. Its snowing and snowflake blurs are numerous in the shot, most notable the big huge one in the center of the screen that appears just above the right shoulder of the man kneeling. Several others, all falling at the same angle, produce the same kind of blur, and as with all still images, the distance from the lens determines how big an item is going to appear in relation to its actual size. The white vertical blur is a snowflake caught in the frame. What you are seeing as, I guess the head and arms(?) are the rocks that were there before it started snowing.
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All this hub bub over snow flakes?
The "Mary" folks see is the snow-highlighted rocks behind the falling snow. A photo (without the snow cascade) from the same spot will confirm this.
Numinious? Perhaps...
Sacred? No way...
If you look at post #29, you will see a dog. Neither is there.
Actually, the dog cloud looks like a dog. We know this because we know what a dog looks like. We do not know what Blessed Mary looked like.
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