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kpete

(72,018 posts) Tue Feb 12, 2013, 10:55 AM Feb 2013

This picture of lightning striking St. Peter's Basilica is pretty amazing and it's sure to get the God worshipers and conspiracy theorists talking...

You may have heard that the Pope is planning on hanging up his frock at the end of February. It was a pretty big deal yesterday. Well, just after the announcement, one of his senior cardinals said it was “like a lightning bolt in a clear blue sky”, and only hours after he uttered those words a lightning bolt from a freak thunderstorm hit the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.

larger pic:
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/12/16935095-bolt-from-the-blue-lightning-strikes-st-peters-after-popes-announcement
http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/world-affairs/pic-of-the-day-lightning-strikes-st-peters-hours-after-popes-resignation-coincidence-0034016-1