![]() A public telephone listing for Gonzalez could not be found Friday.īanks said witnesses told police they saw a man on a bicycle writing on the image around 11:35 p.m. Last edited by Michael Alan April 20th, 2005 at 04:47 PM.The story of Our Lady of the Underpass has come to a rather pathetic close:Īfter a man defaced a salt stain that had drawn pilgrims to the Fullerton underpass on the Kennedy Expressway, authorities painted over the image, which many Catholic residents said resembled a popular representation of the Virgin Mary.Īuthorities charged Victor Gonzalez, 37, of Chicago Friday with criminal damage to state supported property, a misdemeanor, for allegedly writing with black shoe polish the words “Big Lie” over the image, police spokesman David Banks said. But, first you must know the components of all those groups of things you wish to represent, such as the members of the animal kingdom, as well as the components of the countryside, such as rocks, plants and similar things.” These will do you well because they will awaken genius with this jumble of things. If these are well contemplated, you will find fantastic inventions that awaken the genius of the painter to new inventions, such as compositions of battles, animals, and men, as well as diverse composition of landscapes, and monstrous things, as devils and the like. "Don’t underestimate this idea of mine, which calls to mind that it would not be too much of an effort to pause sometimes to look into these stains on walls, the ashes from the fire, the clouds, the mud, or other similar places. LEONARDO DA VINCI - from the " Treatise on Painting": Maybe it is a miracle but so is the sunrise on that level of things. We know typical imagry of Mary or the late pope. Notice below how Da Vinci says if we first know the components of what we want to create than we can find them in nature. They depend highly on the person looking at it. In the case of stains on walls, these are like dreams. Last edited by lucyna April 20th, 2005 at 03:45 PM. "We're treating this just like we treat any type of roadside memorial," said department spokesman Mike Claffey. The agency does not plan to scrub it off the wall. The stain is likely the result of salt run-off, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation. A police officer kept the crowd of about three dozen from getting too close to the traffic but didn't stop them gathering around the stain. Tuesday morning, women knelt with rosary beads behind a police barricade while men in work shirts stood solemnly before the image, praying. "We have faith, and we can see her face." "We believe it's a miracle," said Elbia Tello, 42. ![]() Police have patrolled the emergency turnoff area under the Kennedy Expressway since Monday as hundreds of people have walked down to see the image and the growing memorial of flowers and candles that surround it.īeside the image is an artist's rendering of the Virgin Mary embracing Pope John Paul in a pose some see echoed in the stain. ![]() Hundreds flock to underpass to see image of Virgin MaryĬHICAGO (AP) - A steady stream of the faithful and the curious, many carrying flowers and candles, have flocked to an expressway underpass for a view of a yellow and white stain on a concrete wall that some believe is an image of the Virgin Mary. Does this image really portrait Our Lady of Guadelupe or any image of Mary?
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