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sweetchuck
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That’s wild. I know this post is like 6 months old, but I had a virtually identical experience there in 1991 or 1992, whatever year Notre Dame beat Florida State before they lost to Boston College and got shafted on the National Championship vote. Anyhow, it was the weekend that Notre Dame beat FSU. I saw a lot of those photos with the door in front of the sun. We were able to look at the sun, too. I can’t remember much about the day since I was only 11 or 12, but a GIANT cross formed in the sky (not in front of the sun, like yours) out of nowhere on a perfectly clear day. And it wasn’t one of those things where you look up and say, “oh, that cloud’s a turtle”, “oh, that cloud looks like Bob Barker.” There was no mistaking this cross. It was perfectly symetrical with sharp angles. There were tens of thousands of people there (lots of hispanics and asians, as I remember.) All of our rosaries either tarnished or turned gold. And we could definitely smell roses all over the place. Shortly after going, my dad and my grandfather were converted to the faith.The sun, appearing as a golden circle was surrounded by clouds tinted in rich mahogany-colored hues. Not only did looking directly at the sun not cause pain, the clouds themselves were not ordinary clouds. Each of the four clouds having a 90° angle met with the sun in the center of the cross formed by obscuring clouds and exposed sky. The sun appeared to be a consecrated Host, the Son of God. Looking at this vision without blinking for many seconds was a joy. Then, I doubted.
The safety of continuing to gaze thusly at the sun made me look away, but only for fewer than three seconds. Feeling guilty of my disloyalty, I returned my eyes to the sun and I earned for this gaze more pain than I’d ever experienced through my eyes. Not only that … the clouds were no longer in evidence and my miracle was over. The pain was a gift, too. It protected my vision.
I need to find my photo. I was so in awe of it, so mesmerized by it, that I didn’t think to take a pic until it had almost vanished. Any of you there to back me up on the cross?