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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
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- Subject: Re: Catholic Druidism in Watsonville
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.002523.21432@s1.gov>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 00:25:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.192636.26343@coopsol.com> gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
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- :It appears that once again many Catholics are confused as to what to
- :worship. In Watsonville the other day a woman claimed to see the "Virgin
- :Mary" in the knothole of an old oak tree. This was great cause for a
- :migration of Catholics to scamper to the area and begin worshipping the
- :tree. I say "worshipping the tree" because they have had to put a fence up
- :around the tree to keep the people from stripping the bark from it in an
- :effort to take some blessing with them. Some people were shown on the
- :news last night dipping their fingers into the tar used to cover the
- :stripped areas, and spreading it on their faces and their children's
- :faces. Makes sense to me -- yeah right.
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- :Of course, there are many claims of the VM talking to the people there and
- :the usual miracles that accompany this type of hysteria. The cameras
- :showed the knothole and it only vaguely resembles one particular
- :picture of the VM (which the woman produced) in cameo (or outline)
- :only. Someone also displayed a photo which supposedly depicts the VM
- :standing near the tree, but in reality it hardly resembles any human
- :form at all.
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- Hmmm... Is it OK with you to cross-post on alt.pagan?
-
- _I_ certainly enjoyed it.
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- /Loren
-