Look! It's Jesus!

Seeing Jesus (and Mary) in Food and Other Objects

By Harry and Sandra Choron

The famous Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese isn't the only religious sighting that has been seen (and sold) throughout the years.

Other people like you have experienced Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Mother Teresa, and Buddha sightings on food and ordinary objects such as baseballs, lava lamps, cinnamon buns, and beehives. The book "Look! It's Jesus!" by Harry and Sandra Choron is a collection of photos and stories of these sacred sightings from around the world, Arizona to Australia.

In this photo gallery, we showcase some of the more extraordinary photos from the book to inspire your own holy visions.

Harry and Sandra Choron are the authors of several books on popular culture. They live in Haworth, New Jersey.

All photos and text are reprinted from "Look! It's Jesus!" by Harry and Sandra Choron, with permission of Chronicle Books. Copyright 2010. The content cannot be reprinted, republished, or redistributed without further permission. All rights reserved.

Tortilla Jesus

On October 5, 1977, Maria Rubio was making fresh tortillas for her husband’s breakfast when she came across a startling discovery: while cooking, the face of Jesus had been burned onto the surface of a tortilla by the heat of the skillet. Maria’s husband, Eduardo, and their daughter, Rosy, recognized the image as well.

Even in the small town of Lake Arthur, New Mexico, word traveled fast. “That afternoon when I drove in from school, there was already a line of people waiting in front of my parents’ house to go in and see the tortilla,” says Rosy Rubio. “It was amazing.”

The Rubio family built a shrine to the tortilla in their backyard, where it stayed for many years and was visited by many thousands of people. However, heat and time warped the image of Jesus on the tortilla’s surface, and in 2006 it was dropped and broken during a show-and-tell at a local elementary school. Although the image of Christ is no longer very recognizable in the broken pieces, the Rubios still keep them in their home.

—Created by Maria Rubio, Lake Arthur, New Mexico

Share Your Sacred Sightings Photos

Do YOU have a sacred sighting photo to share? Whether it’s Jesus’ face on the side of a cow or Buddha on a chocolate chip cookie, we welcome you to post YOUR photos in the Beliefnet community for a chance to see them in a special feature on Beliefnet.

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