Reason to love SLC # 2

We have one of those famous Virgin Mary aberrations!

The story goes that in 1997 a city worker found an image of the Virgin in a tree stump that had been struck by lightning. As word spread, a stair case and makeshift memorial site was erected to accommodate the rush of worshippers coming to visit the site.

Even now, over ten years (and a substantial amount of vandalism) later, the site is always adorned with flowers, candles, prayers and usually a kneeler or two.  Read about it by clicking on the link below (also where the images are from)

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/310083/a_new_vision_the_amazing_transformation.html?cat=38

Here is an article in the SLC Tribune written in 2010

I don't consider myself religious, but there is something very cool about the devotion to this Virgin Stump that draws my attention to it.  I drive passed the tree every morning on the way to work, and even in the snow, wind and rain, there are candles lit and flowers strewn by some seriously devoted worshippers. Like, they must have been out there at 7 AM devoted.