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September 9th, 2011
11:08 AM ET
Family credits Virgin Mary statue for saving their house from wildfire(CNN)– Wildfires are raging in Texas. At the Garcia's home in Montgomery County, Texas the fire line comes right up to a statue of the Virgin Mary. The family tells CNN affiliate KTRK they believe the statue helped saved their home.
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The word for today is "Christard"
When I was growing up, we had a lady down the street who claimed that a "vision" of the Virgin Mary spoke to her on the first Wednesday of every month (in her crappy, overgrown backyard). Within a few months she was drawing such a crowd that the police had to shut down streets for blocks.
Of course she took up donations and invested the cash in hundreds of additional statues and shrines. Looked like a Catholic Sanford & Son!
We had a Jehovah's Witness named gabbin Anne. It waas brutal.
The Universe reveals 'clues', one needs to know how to 'listen'. Not necessarily a religious message, but a message, just the same.
Clues to what? Your scifi imagination?
the message is 42
Sounds like an episode of Crossing Over. John Edward is that you?
I always miss that one. I am better at picking up 11 and 39.
So this is the way the universe works? Plop down a piece of concrete that resembles a 2000 year old woman in your yard and your house is spared while everybody else gets torched? If this is part of the way God's plan works, I'll pass.
Jesus says Baptists taste better off the grill than Catholics
Now is that Raptor Jesus? Or my bro Zombie Jesus
Texas is where the dinos roamed with man, so I would say Raptor Jesus
My spell check doesn't work Mr. Pig.
This is some kind of joke, right?
Lol... Sadly, it's not a joke. They truly believe that piece of stone SHOULD have caught fire just like dry grass/wood.
How nice, they sent the fire to other houses. Guess their statues weren't as pretty or prayed to as often.
Yeah, and it stopped at a tree, at a doorstep, at a mosque, at a bank, at a playground, at a building – it will finally stop somewhere or burn forever, right? Meanwhile it went ahead and burned up plenty more homes, businesses, people, animals, trees, churches, etc during its natural course before stopping.
So this is what we have come to, needless ridicule of someone's miracle and faith. I suppose you will alll have the same level of ridicule if your mother survies breast cancer or your child some terrible illness. From a country of many beliefs it seems we have descended into believing nothing. I can't say that I am very religous man, but I really feel sad for our country after reading some of these comments.
If my mother survived breast cancer it wouldn't be because I put a statutue in my front yard. If I ever claimed the statutue was the cure for cancer I would expect to be ridiculed.
Sorry, statue. I hate it when that happens.
I think people's issue is that they don't want religion shoved down their throat. This shouldn't be on the front page of CNN. I'm glad this family had their house saved, and I don't think a piece of stone that was carved into a specific shape saved it.
Well said. Spoken like a man of stature.
Statues don't cure cancer...and statues don't stop fire, except for the fact they're made of clay and clay isn't really flammable. So because they're Catholic and worship statues, God saved them instead of the many others who were effected by the wildfires/ Give me a break! That sounds like devil worship to me!
Well. .actually if you claim some sort of divine intervention for the those things.. yes I suspect you'll get a goodly number of similar comments.. the utter gall and hubris that is inherent in this sort of claim is far more appalling than people expressing their disbelief in said statement.
Believe in what the evidence demonstrates not a fairy tale told to you before you could reason for yourself, and now that hopefully you have reasoning skills, reject any extraordinary claims for which there is no extraordinary evidence. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence when evidence should be there if this something actually existed.
They just got lucky. Mom called me in for dinner, so I put the magnifying glass down.
Oh God! Whom do pray to (grace), before dinner! BTW, is your mom hot!
Holy Mary Mother of God.
Don't you have to put the Mary in a bath tub half sunken in your front yard in order for it to work? Maybe that is just an east coast thing...
The hardworking fire fighteres don't get any credit!
I wonder how doctors, firefighters, EMTs, cops, and the like feel when God is given credit for their work?
We all just stand back, do nothing, and wait for God to put out the fires!
This proves beyond any doubt that God hates Texas.
HO HO HO
Texas has been a very naughty state. There will be nothing but LifeTime Network movies in their stockings this year!
Maybe he hates Republicans. Garcia is probably one of those lazy do-nothing Liberals.
Yeah, because it's the only place in the world going through a natural disaster... so smart you are.
Okay, so God saved this family's home because they had a statue of the Virgin Marry in their yard. What were God's intensions when he allowed these churches to be destroyed by wildfire?
Harrison Bethel Baptist Church in Oklahoma City was destroyed by wildfire, A church was destroyed by wildfire in Leon County, TX. First Baptist Church of Possum Kingdom Lake, TX was destroyed by wildfire. Two churches were destroyed by wildfire in Montgomery County Texas.
If you're going to give God credit for saving this home then you have to give him/her credit for destroying these churches too.
God is going crazy
I do credit God with destroying churches and home is Texas. He is cleaning house. Time to sweep this tea party republican extremist crap infecting Texas under the rug and start over.
Clearly they were the wrong types of churches – probably Mormons or Presbyterians. Duh!
Well-played. The family who put the statue must really think highly of themselves. Wow, god protected us. We must be special.
There have been hundreds of fires and natural disasters where the virgin mary statue didnt stop anything .. how many churches were under water in louisiana .. in fact most of the time fires stop at a old tree stumps, toys, inanimate objects, or piles of dirt instead.. so, are piles of dirt more miraculous that virgin mary statues at tree stumps?
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Family credits water for saving their house from wildfire!!
Hail Posiden!
Come on people, live and let live.
Most of you sound sarcastic, mean spirited and totally lacking in spiritualism. If you don't understand something, don't automatically ridicule it. I'm not a church person but I believe in the power of faith and love, and, who knows, stangest things have happened.
What's to understand? 1400+ families and the communities they contained weren't pious enough to be saved, but this family was? How many of those other houses also had statues of Mary, crosses, and other prominently-displayed religious symbols?
Faith and love don't stop fires.
Most of these comments are coming from liberals. From their words and actions you can conclude that these people are "spiritually dead".
No they haven't silly man.
You see it is all in their heads.
@virtualgd
Better to be spiritually dead than willfully ignorant.
After the fire make sure that she did not loose her virginty
You should learn how to spell before you start cracking jokes.