"Her face showed grief, but not despair
Her head though bowed had faith to spare.
And even now she could suppose
His thorns would somehow yield a rose.
Her life with Him was full of signs
That God writes straight with crooked lines.
Dark clouds can hide the rising sun
And all seem lost when all be won."

-Admiral Jeremiah Denton, one of America's greatest heroes in Vietnam. He spent 7+ years in Vietcong POW camps, four of which were in isolation. He had this vision of Mary at the cross (but I think it also applies to the Church and to his time in prison too)