Residents attempt to save tree stump they say depicts Our Lady
Scores of people from across the country gathered to say prayers at Holy Mary Parish Church in Rathkeale yesterday where workmen made the discovery while cutting down trees earlier this week.
People from the town organised the petition in an effort to have the stump, which was due to be dug out of the ground yesterday, made into a permanent fixture at the church. âWe have almost 2,000 signatures on the petition already and we are going to continue getting more,â said shopkeeper Samus Hogan.
âPeople have been coming from Kerry and Clare to see this tree, which we believe shows a clear outline of Our Lady,â he continued. Mr Hogan said the discovery was bringing people from all walks of life to Rathkeale to pray.
âItâs doing no harm and itâs bringing people together from young and old to black and white, Protestant and Catholic, to say a few prayers, so whatâs wrong with that? Thereâs enough violence and intolerance going on in the world,â he said.
According to Noel White, Rathkeale Community Council graveyard committee chairman, the trees were cut down because of old age and the danger they posed to the adjacent schoolyard. âThese trees will be replaced. However, I have given assurance that our committee will not be removing this tree stump. Nature has a funny way of showing things up and let it be a freak of nature or something else, but, whatever it is, surely it is a wonderful thing to see so many people coming out to pray, especially young people who have been saying the rosary in the church for the past few nights.â
I didnt see people of all race and colour gathering around this poor mutts ring chanting mindlessly and worshipping.
Religious types are choosy cunts.
That stump looks more like Alfred Hitchcock than anyone else.
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