Monday, March 2, 2009

Religious imagery in everyday objects

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A grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly bears the image of the Virgin Mary, which was bought by GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, for $28,000 on eBay
grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly bore the image of the Virgin Mary
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GoldenPalace.com also bought a water-stained piece of plaster from a Pittsburgh man's bathroom that looks like Jesus Christ
bathroom that was said to look like Jesus Christ
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Hundreds of people gathered throughout the afternoon of Tuesday December 17, 1996, in Clearwater, Florida, witnessing what they believed to be the sighting of the Virgin Mary
believed to be a sighting of the Virgin Mary
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In October 2000, locals flocked to see a shadow cast by a streetlight shining through a tree forming what was believed to be a vision of Christ on the fence of a local caravan park in Port Germein,  north of Adelaide, Australia
believed to be a vision of Christ on the fence of a local caravan park
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The Crucified Jesus Christ appears in the clouds above the Sussex seaside town of Worthing
An image of a crucified Jesus Christ was seen in the clouds
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When NASA released pictures of the Cone Nebula taken by the Hubble telescope in April 2002, many people claimed it was an image of Jesus
the Cone Nebula taken by the Hubble telescope in April 2002, many people claimed it was an image of Jesus
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A bonfire which locals believe resembles the silhouette of late Pope John Paul II making a blessing,  in a picture taken by amateur photographer Grzegorz Lukasik, atop Matyska mountain in southern Poland, on April 2, 2007, during a vigil marking the secon
bonfire which locals believed resembled the silhouette of late Pope John
Paul II
says the picture was taken at
21.37:30, exactly the hour when the pope died
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The 'Nun Bun': a cinnamon bun that apparently bore the likeness of Mother Teresa, was made famous by the Bongo Java coffeehouse in Nashville, Tennessee. The bun was later stolen
'Nun Bun': a cinnamon bun that apparently bore the likeness of Mother Teresa,
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Salim Patel holds up an aubergine  onTuesday March 12, 1996, which has sparked cries of
an aubergine which sparked cries of 'miracle' in Daubhill, Bolton, in March 1996, after he cut it in half to discover the name 'Allah' inside
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A Jordanian man displays a sliced aubergine that shows a natural inscription of the word Allah, in April 2005
word 'Allah' clearly seen inside
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The Holy Shroud, the 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial  cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy Saturday, August 12, 2000

The grandaddy of all holy apparitions is the Shroud of Turin, the 14-foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus...

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A photo released on Tuesday, 13 April 2004 by the English scientific magazine Journal of Optics showing what is claimed to be the image of the face of Jesus Christ on the front side of the Turin Shroud
X-Rays of the shroud show
image of the face of Jesus Christ
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