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Did the Virgin Mary visit St. Thomas More chapel? Sunlight and shadows send a message of hope



If the Blessed Virgin appeared at St. Thomas More High School this week, well, witnesses were not easy to come by Thursday. Nonetheless, there were more than a few believers and many more hopeful people of faith who saw in a photograph taken in the school chapel — it was posted online — an image that suggested Mary, the Mother of God.

Others, too, were moved by the image. On the school’s social media, more than 250 people shared what the image meant to them, most of them favorably.

Mary “told the children at Fatima to pray the Rosary every day for peace in our world long before the miracle on 13 October of 1917,” wrote Pate Colbertcormier. “I see the silhouette and being that this is October and there’s a war between Ukraine and Russia, the students had just finished saying the rosary, we are being reminded of her 1917 promise.” 

Jennifer Brown noted that the image was seen “right after praying the Glorious Mysteries.”

Paula Poche Hornback noted that, “Something special is going on at STM this year, for sure. Look at the Quest retreat numbers (a retreat for underclassmen) and the students going to extra daily Masses!”

The University of Dayton, where they are closely studied, said there were 386 reported in the 20th century; only eight were said to have “a supernatural character.” None of the eight were in the United States, however in 1859 there was an apparition in Wisconsin. It wasn't approved until 2010.

Nor would the church consider this image to be one. But it was not without value, the chancellor suggested.

“The silhouette served to elicit in the imagination of people of faith a much greater truth — that we are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses cheering us on to victory,” he wrote, citing Hebrews 12: 1-2. “When we look at a small acorn, we can wonder that one day it will become a massive oak tree. When we see a little caterpillar, we can wonder that one day it will fly. We dare to see beyond, to hidden realities.

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