Janie Guerra, an employee of a Comet Dry Cleaner in Harlingen had just finished eating her lunch when she returned to her pressing station and got the shock of her life.  Janie was looking at what she believed could only be the silhouette of the Virgin Mary of Guadelupe on the machine pad she’d been using.  She immediately called her co-worker Emma over to see if Emma could also see the image.  Emma did and both women were awe struck at what they were seeing.  After snapping a photo of the image the two women phoned the owner of the Dry Cleaner.

Buddy Fisher, the franchise owner of the Dry Cleaner, has had a life that has been riddled with hardship & tragedy.  He’d survived a brain aneurysm, prostate cancer and the murder of one son but his faith in Jesus and the Mother Mary was strong.  He said, “When I saw the picture, I said, ‘you have got to be kidding me!’  When you see this, you see it.  It leaves nothing to the imagination – it’s that clear.”  He told a local television crew “As the owner of a new business, I’ll take divine intervention.” He said,”If the Virgin Mary chooses my store to bless, who am I to complain?”

Fisher chose to hand out photo copies of the image instead of turning his machine into a shrine.  He and his employees felt it would be wrong to profit from the apparition and soon the image faded with use of the machine.  “She’s still there she’s just not on the pad,” Fisher says. “Like Jesus told St. Thomas, ‘Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed.’  I believe she’s there all the time.  I don’t know why it happened, but it happened.  She found a way to tell us that everything is going to be all right.”