TV Schedule

50 people go blind looking for the image of Virgin Mary in the sun

  2. phillyharper
  3. related topics
After rumors that there was a solar image of the Virgin Mary in the sun, believers looked to the sky in the hope that they would be blessed by the miracle, but as science predicts, staring at the Sun can cause blindness. The Kottayam district in India was the venue where at St Joseph’s Eye Hospital 48 cases of vision loss were recorded due to photochemical burns on the retina.

“All our patients have similar history and symptoms. The damage is to the macula, the most sensitive part of retina. They have developed photochemical, not thermal, burns after continuously gazing at the sun,” Dr Annamma James Isaac, the hospital’s ophthalmologist, said.

The victims are mainly women with people as young as 12 damaging their eyes in search of the miracle.
phillyharper

Add your response

Login/Registration is required to add a response.