Reply #24: You left out the interesting detail that the image only showed up in photos. [View All]

From your link:

"Polish cameraman Gregorz Lukasik took the photographs on a brand new camera and once he displayed them on his computer and saw the image he immediately contacted Father Cielecki. Lukasik said: ''I had only just bought the camera and I was taking some pictures of the event to commemorate the death of Pope John Paul II. 'I took several pictures and at the time didn't think anything of them."

"It was only afterwards when I got home and looked at the pictures that I realised I had something.''I showed them to my brother and sister and they, like me, were convinced the flames had formed the image of Pope John Paul II. There is a tongue of flame to one side which resembles his right arm raised as if giving a blessing."

''I was so happy with the picture that I showed it to our local bishop, who said that Pope John Paul had made many pilgrimages during his life and he was still making them in death.'' Father Cielecki said: ''You can see the image of a person in the flames and I think it is the servant of God, Pope John Paul II.''


I still don't think it's a miracle but I can see how the photographer would have been surprised to see the image and, having been at the event, would be predisposed to see the "figure" as John Paul II.

As one of the major Catholic sites said, it's more likely a case of pareidolia

Nice article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia