Our Lady of the Rock : : Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert / / Lisa M. Bitel.
For more than twenty years, Maria Paula Acuña has claimed to see the Virgin Mary, once a month, at a place called Our Lady of the Rock in the Mojave Desert of California. Hundreds of men, women, and children follow her into the desert to watch her see what they cannot. While she sees and speaks with...
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