The Hurricane Lady Prayer Card

It is told that a sea captain in the early 1800s was near Florida on a cargo ship from Spain. A storm arose so the captain did what was done in the time period; he started throwing things overboard to lighten his load. A crew member came up and said there was a Madonna in the hold of the ship. No one on board remembered seeing it loaded and it didn’t have any tag on it saying where it was going or who it was from. It has been said that the captain his crew offered the following prayer,

“Dear Lady, if you will get us safely into port, we will place your statue with the first Christian family we meet,”

The winds subsided and the ship limped into the St. Augustine port. The statue was passed down from generation to generation until she was donated to the Sisters of St. Joseph, where she resides today.

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