Virgin on the ridiculous
So what is this? The Block Mary?
United States: Optimists in a run-down area of New Jersey are flocking to a tree stump in which a simulacara of the Virgin Mary has appeared. They take it a sign of something generically positive for the future.
The piece of wood, whose shape believers say resembles a veiled Virgin Mary with a bowed head, was noticed by passers-by over the weekend on state-owned land alongside a street that residents say is a hangout for illegal drug users.
Since then, a steady stream of visitors have left candles, flowers and handwritten notes and prayers at the site. It has her form, definitely,
said Jackie Cohrs. It looks like her.
Virgin Mary appears in New Jersey tree - Yahoo! News, 22nd October 2003.