Blessed Virgin seen in office window

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

By SUZANNE McLAUGHLIN

smclaughlin@repub.com

SPRINGFIELD - Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night outside a Mercy Medical Center office on Stafford Street to view what they believed to be an apparition of the Virgin Mary appearing in a second story window.

The observers took photographs of the shadow outlined on the window with their cell phones and said the rosary.

"I think it's Our Lady of Guadalupe," said Olga Romero who lives in the nearby Saab Court Apartments, referring to the apparition of the Virgin Mary reported in 1531 in Mexico.

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To quote:

Deirdre Gogel, of West Springfield, said she found it comforting that the apparition occurred when the United States is going through such trying economic times and people are frightened.