The billboard and the herb shop sit at the bustling intersection of Canal Boulevard, Canal Street and City Park Avenue. The wall Kleindorf was painting runs along the edge of Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, one of several burial grounds at the spot that once marked the city limits.

Kleindorf was peering over vaults of yellow fever victims when he noticed a white blotch on the left side of the sign, part of the original funeral home photograph that could be described as sunlight, appeared to him as the profile of Mary, standing in the archway with her back to the ticking clock on the right side of the sign.

Seen as the Blessed Mother, the solitary figure seems perfectly proportioned. She is clothed in a white gown and veil and is facing west, toward the white tombs of Greenwood Cemetery across Canal Boulevard.

Kleindorf, 40, said the veiled image "got more defined" as he drove his pickup truck past the billboard on his way home.

The Bucktown resident doesn't compare his vision to the likes of Mary's reported appearance in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which has drawn tens of thousands of New Orleanians there to pray since the 1980s. He said his discovery is a source of comfort and hope, and he wants "to share the news" with his community.

"We're hearing about a lady seeing her (Mary) under a bridge where the water was leaking through the cracks, and about Mary's face on a grilled cheese sandwich, and here, right here, we have our own Lakeview/Mid-City Mary," Kleindorf said.

In recent months, believers have flocked to a stretch of the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago to stare at an image of Mary -- her hands in prayer -- on an underpass wall, stained with water and road salt.

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