Aug 26 2008
Neighbours amazed by likeness of Virgin in a tree
An uncanny likeness of the Virgin Mary formed into the bark of a Scarborough tree has left dumbfounded residents wondering if their neighbourhood has been divinely blessed. Some have even been brought to tears by the surreal Mary in the tree.
“I don’t know why it’s there, but I think it’s a blessing,” said Christopher Moreau, 47, who discovered the tree-bound Mary last week. “It raises the hair on your neck, it gives you chills.”
It was after work and Moreau had just opened a beer in the backyard of his Danforth and Birchmount Rds.-area home when he noticed the familiar image of the Virgin, her arms outstretched, in his neighbour’s tree.
“I’m not a wacko,” Moreau said yesterday, adding he was stone-cold sober.
Moreau, an 18-year superintendent of a downtown condo building, said he did a double-take.
“At first I thought I was seeing things,” he said. “Then I went and got my mother-in-law to tell her. She was overwhelmed by it. She was crying.”
Read about it here.
[From me]
“I’m not a wacko”–the jury is still out! 
To me it looks like Obi-Wan Kenobi to me.
What do you think?
[HT] Steve Thompson
12 responses so far
I think these Steve character has a good knack for finding these things.
Yeah Steve,
You aren’t wacko either!
Kevin Bussey’s last blog post..Neighbours amazed by likeness of Virgin in a tree
This is the least impressive of the Mary sightings, but nice try.
Michael’s last blog post..Battle in the Basement
It looks like the “Black Madonna”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna
Rick Boyne’s last blog post..Here’s what I’d like to see!
My comment must have gotten “spammed”. Was it the link?
Rick Boyne’s last blog post..Here’s what I’d like to see!
I’m thinking it looks like either tree rot…or firewood…
Any body got a chain saw!
M. Steve Heartsill’s last blog post..Play Ball! NOT!
I didn’t know that MARY traveled that much!
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It looks like the Emperor from Star Wars.
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Ol’ Chris had best hope he doesn’t bump into Mary in heaven. I don’t think she’d like meeting a guy who thinks she looks like a TREE.
Bob Cleveland’s last blog post..They’ve ALL Already Been Born….
Is she a ma-tree-arch?
The Virgin Mar-tree?
Okay, I’m done.
Shazzam! I was wondering what happened to that old nun who supervised the nurses at the catholic hospital I where I was born in 1954…. 54 years ago tomorrow in Gadsden, Alabama. I also remember her when I had my tonsils removed six years later in that same old hospital. She was a tough cookie, but she ran a clean, efficient hospital.
I declare that image in that tree trunk looks just like her!
No offense to my catholic brothers and sisters.
Was this tree in Lord of the Rings? I know I saw this in Treebeard.
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