A miracle

Father Henry E. Laurion - USA

Christ is dying on the Cross.
He bows His head and dies in the shadow.

I always get the same question: "Father, how did you do it?" I did not do it. God did it and this is how it happened. I wanted a spotlight on the face of Christ. The electrician told me that I needed a pinpoint spotlight for that effect. So a scaffold was set up reaching 45 feet to the ceiling, and the men went up with the spotlight.

I had them focus the light on the face to achieve the effect in Reubens'peainting. I read somewhere that Reubens attained the dramatic effect of his paintings by painting the light on the bridge of the nose and cutting down on the right corner of the lips.

The men on top of the scaffold kept moving the spotlight a little at a time up, down, right, left and finally after a half-hour the light was on the bridge of the nose and cutting across the comer of the lips. But it was daytime and there was no shadow on the wall.

The next morning, at about 5:30, I opened the church and put the light on the crucifix and I was in a state of shock: on the wall there was a perfect silhouetted shadow of the crucifix, but the head of Christ was bowed down. Then the words of the Gospel of St. John came to me: "Then Jesus bowed His head and died." Ch. 19 V. 30

In gratitude to God for this, I want you to accept this duotone picture of this phenomenon. Let us bless the Lord for His great kindness in giving us this beautiful spectacle for our Church.
                                             

Father Henri E. Laurion

Sacred Heart Church
Tafville Connecticut USA