Pizzeria worker sees Jesus in sauce bucket on first Friday of Lent
thetimes-tribune.com | BY JEREMY G. BURTON, STAFF WRITER | February 25, 2010
When Mary Louise Salerno saw Jesus Christ in a bucket of pizza sauce, her instinct was not to alert the media or even to tell many friends.
She did not want people descending on her family’s West Scranton pizzeria, and she did not want to invite critics or doubters of what she felt was a clear sign.
“To us, it was something special,” Ms. Salerno, 65, of Old Forge said. “God smiled on us that day.”
Mediocre simulacra in my humble opinion but Facebook does give it a modern twist. I do appreciate the fact the owner does not want publicity or to money.
Methuen woman sees likeness of Jesus on iron
www.boston.com | By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff | November 28, 2009
METHUEN – Until this week, Mary Jo Coady had never given her iron a second thought. Then she saw a likeness of Jesus staring back from its not-quite stainless steel bottom.
Startled, Coady called in her daughters, both of them college students, and they saw what she saw. Then she took a picture and posted it on her private Facebook page, giving friends and relatives the same test. Everyone saw Jesus, she said.
“So I said, ‘OK, I’m not crazy,’ ’’ recalled Coady, a 44-year-old who works as a secretary in a medical office. After a challenging couple of years in which she let her Catholic faith wane, Coady found that the image had given her a spiritual boost. So she chose to share it with some others.
“This was just a good, uplifting thing for me, and it just made me reaffirm my faith and beliefs, and I’m not embarrassed to say that,’’ Coady said yesterday. “I believe in God, and I think that was a sign saying good things will come, and things will get better.’’
MMmm, this is not the best Christ simulacra I’ve seen. The cheesus is better.
Pot luck: The Marmite lid showing the likeness of Jesus Christ found by South Wales mother Claire Allen. Image dailymail.com
Star of the yeast: Mrs Allen with her 'Marmite messiah'. The mother-of-three says she is comforted by the finding. Image dailymail.com
The Marmite messiah: How a mother found Jesus in a jar
Daily Mail | 28th May 2009
The Lord manifests himself in many ways – on the bottom of a frying pan, in a baby scan and on a burnt fish finger, for instance.
His latest appearance is equally unlikely – on a Marmite jar lid. At least that’s how the Allen family have interpreted the gooey residue on the inside of it.
Mother-of-three Claire Allen, 36, saw the image when she was preparing toast for her youngest boy Robbie, four.
Clare Allen from South Wales who found the ‘Head of Jesus’ inside a marmite jar lid.
Simulacra, things that look just like something else are pretty common. Our brains are hardwired to see faces and forms, so virgin mary shows up in a cheese sandwich, an old man’s face appears on the side of a New England mountain, and we see eyes and faces in cheap woodgrain doors.
A recent Mars photo has a great simulacra. Is it a man? yeti? jawa? osama bin laden? a 2 inch tall rock shaped by wind and water? This photo will be the source of as much ballyhoo, hot air, wonder and investigation as the face found on Mars a decade or more ago. If these simulacra stir public interest in space exploration-if only to “see what it really is” then, as they say, it’s all good.
LIFE ON MARS: THE PROOF?
www.express.co.uk | Wednesday January 23,2008 | John Chapman
THE issue has divided stargazers for centuries.
Now finally this picture provides evidence that there really is life on Mars – or does it?
The photo from the Red Planet appears to show a Yeti-like creature with a huge head making its way down a mountainside.
It was taken by a Nasa space probe, and its appearance on the internet yesterday fired the imagination of every science fiction fan who secretly yearns for a close encounter with an extra-terrestrial.
Then again, of course, it might not be a Martian at all…but just a strange rock formation.
Initially, astronomers hoping for signs of life on the fourth planet were disappointed when Nasa’s Mars Explorer Spirit sent back images from the surface four years ago.
The pictures showed a red, drab, dusty surface devoid of life.
But one space enthusiast scanned every rock and crevice and spotted the ape-like “Martian”, which appeared as just a pinprick on the original photograph. The image was then blown up and posted on a Chinese website.
The intriguing photo will again focus attention on Earth’s nearest neighbour, which many scientists have long believed could harbour alien life.
One stargazer writes on the site: “My first thought – it’s Big Foot! If you show me another rock in another photo from Mars or Earth that naturally looks like that, I will reconsider.”
Another says: “These pictures are amazing. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I looked and saw what appears to be a naked alien running around on Mars.”
But it should be remembered that after a phenomenon dubbed “the face of Mars” caused great excitement in the Seventies, it turned out to be just a rock formation.
The photographs showed what appeared to be a human head staring into the night sky.
The Mars Explorer Spirit rover touched down in 2004 for a three-month mission to search Gusev Crater, a rock-strewn stretch of dusty soil which scientists believe may be the bed of an ancient lake.
Beaming its images across millions of miles of space, the six-wheel robot had been deployed to examine rocks which could offer clues to the Red Planet’s geologic past.
If Mars once had surface water, it had the potential to support life.
Analysis of soil uncovered when a wheel jammed on Spirit revealed that it contains 90 per cent silica – a concentration only likely to have formed when water is present.
If it can be proved that Mars had water within the last few millions of years it would make the discovery of past or current life more likely.
Perhaps this new picture might just provide the answer…
Usually when a messiah’s name is found in an eggplant or aubergine, it’s the name Allah, in Arabic script. This Pennsylvania couple just found the word GOD in their eggplant. A good omen for theists everywhere! But don’t look too closely or you might start to see the non words GID, GIP or GIE.
‘GOD’ spelled by eggplant in Boothwyn
By Peter Mucha | Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Mon, Aug. 13, 200
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Even through an eggplant, perhaps.
Yesterday, Felicia Teske of Boothwyn was slicing a pear-shaped purple veggie purchased at a local produce stand when she noticed the seeds formed a word:
GOD.
“It’s definitely there,” said her husband, Paul.
Unlike other claims, you don’t have to strain your brain this time, he said.
(You may have heard, for example, about the Jesus in a chihuahua’s ear or the Virgin Mary in the grease stain of a pizza pan.)
“There’s no imagination here,” he said. “We haven’t altered this at all.”
So, is it a sign?
“Well, that’s quite an interesting question,” he said. His wife, an office manager for an insurance broker, is switching jobs, so maybe it’s a sign that she’s making right decision.
She is a practicing Catholic, he said.
Offhand, the discovery does seem quite a fluke.
“If she would have cut it one way or the other, it may not have spelled that out,” he said.
Or, if just a fraction different, it might have spelled “GOP.”
Then it might have been an omen Karl Rove was about to quit.
“I’m not sure If there is a message here but God made the eggplant, He formed the seeds and He guided my wife to cut the eggplant where His name would appear,” he emailed along with a couple of pictures.
For now, the Teskes are keeping the heaven-sent slice safely stored, while they ponder the meaning … and whether to sell the sucker on eBay.
