The Virgin Mary and Sex Toys: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together?!

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In the summer of 1917, in a little town in Portugal, the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three shepherd children over a series of five months, telling them secrets and the details of their own deaths and how to bring about world peace -- that last one an especially important sentiment at the time, especially in Europe where World War One was raging all the closer. Thousands upon thousands of devout Catholics flocked to the site in pilgrimage, and to this very day it is a consistently popular travel destination.

Now, as everybody knows, nothing goes better with Catholic miracles than creatively marketed vibrators, so thankfully some advertising agency was able to rub a couple brain cells together for the sake of giving us this little gem, just in time for the 90th anniversary of the vision's first appearance.

Pilgrims to a holy shrine in Portugal are being given free maps of the site that show the Virgin Mary on one side and adverts for sex objects and aphrodisiacs on the other.

The maps, thought up by an advertising company, have raised eyebrows among the Catholic faithful and ire from the authorities at the popular Sanctuary of Fatima.

"The map is not official and makes the wrong use of the picture of the Virgin Mary," a shrine spokeswoman said on Friday.
Personally, I am dying to know what they mean by "the wrong use of the picture of the Virgin Mary," but so far no one is coughing up pictures. Ten dollars says whatever shop decided to go for broke with these maps was hoping for some free publicity, but sadly the joke is on them: try as I might to dig for information, not a single article has mentioned their name.

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