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Jesus Sighting: Cleaner Sweeps Up Holy Likeness At Wiltshire Church (PHOTOS)

Jesus Wax Nicky Irwin

First Posted: 06/14/11 05:43 PM ET Updated: 11/15/11 05:44 AM ET

The cleaner at a Wiltshire, England church was just doing a job when they scraped up what some call divine drippings -- a pool of melted candle wax resembling Jesus.

Nicky Irwin, a warden at the parish church of Ogbourne St. George, spotted the melted messiah during the Easter season.

"I was sitting in church just before Easter a little bit bored by a sermon when I saw it," Irwin told the BBC. "I thought, 'Oh my goodness that looks so much like a face' and I thought 'that could be Jesus'."

The Jesus face was formed by candle wax dripping from the church's pulpit, and even though other congregants doubted Jesus' presence, Irwin insists you had to position yourself just right to view the sacred sighting.

"You had to be in the right seat," she said. "From the side it just looked like dripped wax. It was only when you looked at it face-on that you could see it."

Irwin says the church reviewed its work-logs, but so far nobody has owned up to sweeping up melted Jesus.

"I felt really disappointed actually and I wished I'd done more about preserving it."


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The cleaner at a Wiltshire, England church was just doing a job when they scraped up what some call divine drippings -- a pool of melted candle wax resembling Jesus. Nicky Irwin, a warden at the pa...
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07:19 PM on 06/19/2011
Bet you he could have sold it on e-bay.
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silverwing
04:43 PM on 06/16/2011
It's called Pareidolia, and I'm going to base my new religion around it. It certainly seems to be profitable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
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GrantS
I'm liberal through and through.
10:07 AM on 06/16/2011
Too bad he cleaned it up. Some sucker would have been willing to pay for that.
10:06 AM on 06/16/2011
" ... And how did Jesus look like, when he appeared to you Lola?"
"He looked like... like Jesus."-AbFab(paraphrase)
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emlr
"a man of knowledge is free"
09:48 AM on 06/16/2011
WOW! I was wondering what Jesus looked like since we have no photographs of him. Wonder why no one took any photos while he was on earth.
All the Jesuses of today are based on midevieal paintings.
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Au4
09:32 AM on 06/16/2011
I am sure that if I were God I'd spend my days flitting around and showing up on fish sticks and Marmite lids. Nothing better to do.
lastpost
see biography
06:49 AM on 06/16/2011
"scraped up what some call divine drippings"
No wonder they're wont to wax lyrical.

"spotted the melted messiah during the Easter season."
Presumably left behind by the Easter Burnie

"I thought 'that could be Jesus'"
As I recognized him immediately, from an old passport photograph I keep in my pocketbook.

"you had to position yourself just right to view the sacred sighting."
Cheeses crust! Are you kidding me?

"I wished I'd done more about preserving it."
Like laying a drying cloth over it, and kneeling on top. To create a sort of second Toweling Shroud.

"McCourt believes it is a sign from God"
More like McCourt-out, with an inadequate laundry routine. Big g himself personally recommends New Deft, or a hotter wash. To remove 99.9% of all divine signs and devilish stains.
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TheSojourner
My blog is up and running.
06:15 AM on 06/16/2011
It could just as well be "The Big Lebowski"! If you aren't familiar with that look it up. Anything that looks like a man with a beard and long hair isn't Jesus.A shape that resembles a woman wearing a head covering veil and a robe isn't Mary, either. No one knows what they looked like, if they existed at all (which I doubt), and they get their ideas from the myriad imagined artist's renderings of these entities. When do these people grow up? You can see all sorts of things in clouds too.
11:02 PM on 06/15/2011
Since no one knows what Jesus really looked like, where do they get these garbage stories?
Some people will believe anything. Until he actually COMES BACK (after 2,000 years) gets over the fairy tales, please.
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dubbleplusgood
turned off CNN, turned on CurrentTV
10:56 PM on 06/15/2011
how does anyone know what Jesus looked like? It's debatable he ever lived, even so, if he was a god, and either way what he actually looked like. More importantly, if we can take photographs and draw paintings, I'm sure the all-powerful creator can do better than lazy hazy cooking and cleaning art.

Silly, FTW.
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The Right is Wrong
Pissing off CONS for more than 56 years!
10:24 PM on 06/15/2011
Is that Uranus?
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Leigh49
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
09:39 PM on 06/15/2011
I saw Jesus in my coffee today.
He smiled before he floated away.
Some say it was cream. Or just a dream,
but me I know.
Jesus just dropped by to say hello.
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Leigh49
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
09:37 PM on 06/15/2011
Hey, that looks like Vincent Van Gogh. He was godlike to some people.
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GrantS
I'm liberal through and through.
10:09 AM on 06/16/2011
I thought it looked like Darwin. At least we have pictures of Darwin.
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RJVegas
Socially Liberal/Fiscally Moderate
08:45 PM on 06/15/2011
I'm not an atheist but, really, COME ON PEOPLE! Some people will believe in anything. I some how don't think that Jesus looked at all like the "sightings" shown in this article...or Jeffrey Hunter or anyone else who has portrayed him in movies. And I doubt he'd take the time to appear in a pizza or paint or anything else for that matter. Oh well, I shouldn't judge.
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Leigh49
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
09:37 PM on 06/15/2011
Don't you know he's blond and blue-eyed and speaks English?
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GrantS
I'm liberal through and through.
10:10 AM on 06/16/2011
If you are not with the religious, then you are against them.
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ebanks84
Grandma knows best!
07:13 PM on 06/15/2011
It's amazing how most people have the same perception of what Jesus is supposed to look like. I wonder why?