THE BACKUP ALONG GEORGIA HIGHway 138 begins around 7, before the morning chill has lifted. At White Road state troopers guide the tour buses and cars into a cow pasture, toward the PILGRIM PARKING signs. The visitors leave their vehicles, most on foot, some in wheelchairs, and spread out on lawn chairs across the farm, a one-story house surrounded by 30 lightly wooded acres. Many proudly display photographs of the sun -- fuzzy oval images, blazing auras, starlike bursts -- snapped on previous visits. Some read the free literature in a small bookstore, purchase OUR HOLY MOTHER sweatshirts or avail themselves...
A Heavenly Host In Georgia
A woman's claim to hear the word of the Virgin Mary lures thousands of miracle seekers to the remote town of Conyers
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