Greetings from Lutz!
The worshippers are not exactly worshipping a bank building. Only Republicans do that, and they do it modestly, indoors, in the air-conditioning. (See Doug's post entitled "Lott on BET.")
What the Clearwater architectural cultists are worshipping is a pane of tinted glass, a window on the face of that building. The tint embedded in or deposited on the glass has become delaminated by that intolerable Florida summer heat or something like that; or what it really looks like is that a lawn sprinkler head, fed from a mineral-rich shallow well, has deposited a dulled chromatic stain in a pattern on the glass. The rainbow-colored stain or whatever is roughly in the shape of the head and shoulders of a woman wearing a veil.
I think if you showed that window to an ordinary person, you'd have to point out the resemblance to the B.V.M. before he would recognize her image in that vague discoloration. There certainly are no strongly distinguising features, such as eyes, nose, lips, halo, and so on. All you see is the outline.
The magical window-stain has cost a human life. The building is on the East side of U.S. 19, probably the busiest road in Pinellas county; there are ten or twelve lanes of asphalt adjacent to the building. When news of the apparition first hit the papers and crowds came to see, one poor soul parked his car in the shopping center lot on the West side of the road and attempted to cross U.S. 19 on foot to behold the miracle close up, and he was run down and killed.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net
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