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Mary

Submitted by MrDLB on Sun, 05/04/2008 at 11:36pm.

90 foot tall statue in the likeness of Mary, Mother of Jesus on top of the Continental Divide 8,510 feet above sea level overlooking Butte, Montana, USA


 
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by Jesusfan - 2 months ago
richmond United States
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 27
that is so cool
by marysson - 2 months ago
Slovak Republic
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 112
i have visited butte....saw the statute up on the mountain from the town...
by Queenie - 2 months ago
The London House United Kingdom
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 1221
Dave I found these few facts  about this statue. and it was started in 1979, and completed in 1985
Butte, Montana - Our Lady of the Rockies

April 2007: David Adickes, creator of the giant Sam Houston statue in Texas, told us that he met the man who made Our Lady of the Rockies. "He was a welder. In Butte, there were no sculptors." The statue was created, according to Adickes, to boost the town's spirits when its copper mines were shut down.

Adickes was told that the welder made the Lady's head and hands first, for statue 120 feet tall. "But then the FAA told them that anything taller than 90 feet would need a blinking light on its head." So the statue was built 90 feet tall, and its head and hands are consequently way too big.

"It's only made of 16-gauge steel," Adickes marvels. "You can rap on it. It makes a wonderful sound." [RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 04/06/2007]

Butte, Montana - Our Lady of the Rockies

Our Lady of the Rockies is a statue dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus, built on top of the continental divide at Butte, MT, which is 20 feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty. Besides being visible from interstates 15 and 90, the statue's internal structure is an upside down mine shaft. The statue was built by miners, and shafts were all they knew to build, so internally the statue is an upside down shaft. You can reach the statue by bus during the summer months. [Thomas Brady, 06/24/1997]


by MrDLB - 2 months ago
Pacific Grove (next2Monterey California) United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 55
Thank you for that extra information... I ordered a DVD the other day (I saw the VHS tape a few years ago... very nice)
by MrDLB - 2 months ago
Pacific Grove (next2Monterey California) United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 55
I believe that I discovered this statue through my mother’s guidance from heaven.   I had rented a 33 foot (10 meter) motor-home and had mapped out a 3000 mile (4830 km) trip.  When I was leaving Yellowstone National Park, I experienced a major electrical problem in the motor-home.  It took me a half of a day to repair it.  My next stop was going to be Calgary, Alberta, Canada which was the longest leg of my trip.  After the delay, I could only drive half the way there, so for some odd reason I went 60 miles (96.6 km) out of my way to Butte, Montana to park for the night.  It was dark at the time when I exited the motor-home and I saw the brightly lit statue on top of that mountain, 8510 feet (2594 km) above sea level.   That was a wonderful discovery that I wouldn’t have come across if it were not for the electrical problem in the motor-home.  By the way… My mother was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and went to daily Mass for many years until she passed away.
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