Milton Hospital Donates Virgin Mary Offerings to Relief Effort Milton, Mass. - Milton Hospital has donated over $14,000 left by visitors of the "Virgin Mary Window" to the hurricane relief efforts. Since 2003, when a window in the hospital's medical office building was identified by some to bear the image of the Virgin Mary, a steady flow of visitors come there to pray, often leaving flowers and monetary donations. The hospital had been unsure of a suitable use for the funds, until now. "We are very fortunate to have these funds, and pleased that they can now be used to help those who have been displaced, injured or have lost so much," said Hospital President Joseph Morrissey. "We feel that this decision is in keeping with the spirit that moved so many people to leave donations at the window." The entire $14,114 fund will be sent to the Salvation Army. Milton Hospital employee Theresa Clasby first suggested the funds be used for the relief effort. "I thought that Milton Hospital and the visitors who generously left the donations would be pleased to know that the money was going to such a worthy cause. I am delighted that these funds will be used to assist in the Gulf Coast relief effort," she said. Visitors first flocked to the hospital campus in June of 2003, when word spread that an image resembling the Virgin Mary had appeared in a third floor window of the medical office building. Over the ensuing weeks, over 25,000 people made the pilgrimage to see the window as the phenomenon attracted worldwide media attention. "People still visit the window almost daily," said Susan Schepici, the hospital's executive director of public relations and development, whose office overlooks the site. "As a health care organization, it is particularly appropriate for us to donate this money to people in crisis."

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