The Virgin Mary appears under the freeway

Finally! It's about time I got to witness a sighting of the Virgin Mary. After all, I'm about to turn forty soon and still had never managed to see an apparition, even though in the past there have been several in areas where I've lived. Either the visitation had disappeared by the time I made it to the site or, like the time She appeared in an office building window in Berkely, Michigan, I just didn't see anything. Perhaps I just wasn't full of grace.

Now all of that has changed. The Virgin Mary has appeared on the wall of a freeway underpass at Fullerton Avenue just east of Western Avenue. I saw the pictures on the internet yesterday and watched the footage on the news last night, so I knew that finally my time had come to witness Her glory!

I decided to leave for work a little early today and stop by the impromptu shrine on my way. It's only a block or so off the bus route I take and it's a beautiful day out, so I thought it was a great idea for a field trip.

The underpass is larger than usual, as it's actually an accident investigation site, so some people actually had their cars parked there to see if they could spot the Virgin in what is basically a stain on the concrete caused by run-off from the freeway. The salt and various chemicals mixed with the water left the stain and a woman driving by one morning decided that the stain looked like Mary and pulled her car over to pray.

Someone called the news (of course) and now there are candles and flowers, as well as a traffic jam near the site. Then there's the stain. As these Yahoo! news pictures show, it takes a hefty imagination to see Our Lady in that hard water stain. Personally, I see something far more dirty.

I'm planning on stopping by again tonight on my way home from work and this time I'm going to bring my camera to take some pictures of my own. I'll post those as soon as I have them