| December 6, 2005 | - A Funyun shaped like the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Jesus sold online for $609.
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The Miami Herald
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| May 6, 2005 | - In Chicago a vandal painted the words “big lie” over a stain on a roadside wall that many people believe is an apparition of the Virgin Mary; onlookers wept as a road crew covered the stain with brown paint.
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Reuters
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| April 22, 2005 | - Many people thought that a stain on a wall in Chicago was actually a miraculous apparition of the Virgin Mary.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 22, 2002 | -
Vatican sources said that Pope John Paul II, who says that he has entrusted his future to the Virgin Mary, will add five new mysteries to the rosary.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
Officials in Catania, Sicily, bolted iron underwear onto a local statue of a stallion, covering its shame in preparation for a religious procession during which a statue of the Virgin Mary would pass the horse.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Many Roman Catholics were hoping that Pope John Paul II would use his absolute power in such matters to declare the Virgin Mary a co-redeemer with Jesus Christ; 6 million Catholics, including 550 bishops and 42 cardinals, have signed petitions beseeching the Pope to do so, which effectively would make the Virgin a god.
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| October 3, 2000 | - The Virgin Mary appeared in a dirty window in Perth Amboy, New Jersey; people came from miles around to pray.
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