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Related: About this forumAlabama Virgin Mary Shine: Next Catholic Pilgrimage Site?
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) Could a Virgin Mary statue under a pine tree in the middle of a cow pasture in rural Alabama one day become an officially recognized international pilgrimage site of the Roman Catholic Church?
Yes, it could, said Michael D. Murphy, chairman of the anthropology department and a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama who has specialized in studying the role of Virgin Mary apparitions in the Catholic Church.
"Without a doubt," Murphy said. "Some very unusual places have ended up becoming pilgrimage sites."
Marija Lunetti, the visionary who has been reporting daily visions of the Virgin Mary since she was a teenager in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, had two outdoors apparitions in a field under a pine tree in Shelby County, Ala., during a highly publicized "five days of prayer" July 1-5 at Caritas of Birmingham.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/alabama-virgin-mary-shine_n_1681330.html?utm_hp_ref=religion
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)they'd declare my left nut a pilgrimage site.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)Seems called for.