Added July 8, 2004
A Crying Mary Statue
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Josie Salerno and Jaime Mihalski, Lyons,
Illinois, 2002,
info@ghostvillage.com
I went to a catholic school for about eight years -- it was called
St. Hugh. It was not really your average catholic school -- we had
recess in a parking lot and we went to church every Monday and Friday
mornings.
Me and my best friend, Jaime used to say we had to go to the
washroom and ditch church half of the time. One Friday morning while we
were ditching we went down the hallway to the washroom and it was almost
pitch black. In the hallway there was an oversized statue of Mary with
snakes at her feet -- she is normally standing with her head slightly
bowed, but when we were on our way to the washroom she was kneeling and
had her head up like she was praying. We ran to the washroom scared out
of our minds, but then Jaime went back to take a closer look. When I
noticed I was alone, I went back too and when I got to the statue I
noticed that Mary was crying. Jaime and I just stood there pale and
afraid. After church when we were saying our morning prayer -- the
crucifix fell right off of the wall where it hung. We never said
anything about it before to anyone because we didn't want anyone to
think we were crazy -- entering this makes me feel less insane.
