{"id":78851,"date":"2025-12-07T07:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=78851"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:38:10","slug":"archives-the-virgin-in-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/archives-the-virgin-in-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives: The Virgin In Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Footnote, f<\/em>rom the Mail in our archives]<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Immaculate\u2014show white\u2014she is!<\/p>\n

The photos below were sent by viewer Theresa Thomas. They were originally posted on her brother Robert Kloska’s Facebook page. <\/span><\/p>\n

Wrote Robert, on December 11, 2016: “Today on the way home from 11:45 a.m. Mass at Sacred Heart Basilica at Notre Dame, I stopped to grab a photo of the snow-covered grotto. As I took the photo, my iPhone shut down, presumably from the cold. <\/span><\/p>\n

“As I recharged my phone tonight, I had forgotten that I had even taken the photo. When I looked through my photos, I was stunned to see this strange vertical ‘cloud’ in the photo. It was not visible to my eye when I took it. I’m not sure what to make of it, but it sure got my attention.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s the first photo below.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there’s the second one.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Explains Theresa: “The original image has no<\/em> filters. The [second] one [below it] with the isolated glow is not changed, just light focused by a very good and holy man who happens to be an expert photographer and knows about light and such things. His website is sweetwaterhaven<\/span>.com<\/a>.”<\/span><\/div>\n

Take a look! <\/span><\/p>\n

Did snow ever look more beautiful (and less cold)?]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[Footnote, from the Mail in our archives]: Immaculate\u2014show white\u2014she is! The photos below were sent by viewer Theresa Thomas. They.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}