Did you know that there’s a 40-foot-tall Virgin Mary statue overlooking Logan Airport in East Boston? Welp, neither did I until one restless winter day when I was scouring Atlas Obscura for something interesting to go see or do outdoors nearby. Omicron spike + New England winter = cabin fever for real.
I’d seen the signs for Madonna Queen of the Universe in East Boston before, but I thought it was just a church. There is a church next to the statue, and Sunday mass was happening while Aisha and I stopped by and said hello to Mary. She was fairly easy to find, up some very steep hills.
We watched a couple planes land at Logan Airport. But it was so cold and windy up there, we only stayed long enough to take a couple pictures and say a Hail Mary.