Woman trusts Virgin Mary to handle her life savings

A woman who had to leave town turned her life savings over to an unusual form for safe keeping-the local Virgin Mary statute.

The woman knew no one other than the Virgin Mary to leave her valuable coin collection, worth $40,000, in care of. The two bags of coins were left at the grotto on the campus of Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The bags went undisturbed until a grounds keeper was raking the area and found the bags. He took the valuable coins to his supervisor. The shrine's director Bill Tronolone first thought that the coins had been left as an offering. That changed when the woman returned and asked him if he had seen her money. Tronolone tried to tell the woman she was lucky that her money wasn't stolen. She knew better, her faith in the Virgin Mary was all she felt she needed reports NBC Washington. The National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes is the oldest known replica of the French shrine. It dates to about 1875 on land that was founded as a place of prayer by Father John Dubois in 1805.