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12:30 A.M. In the Courtyard, a figure of a Monk in a cowl, carrying a lighted candle, was seen moving down a path. It vanished when Richard Senate went down a path to meet it. It looked very much like a solid, regular person. (Monks used to wake up early in the morning, and with a candle to see the path, used to go to the Mission to pray.)
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Headless Indian Lady, (squaw), sitting on a galloping horse. The story is told of an indian squaw who was beheaded by her prospector husband when he caught her in bed with another man. The husband took the head and buried it away from the body. Brother Timothy, a Friar who was at the Mission for 15 years, told of her manifestation as seen by MPs in guard stations at the Military Reserve. Two jeeps took off after the apparition, but she vanished.
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Archeological students saw a cloud that floated out from underneath an arch of the Mission, and then went out to the center of the garden to the fountain, and then went inside the door of the church. Happened only once. (Brother Timothy felt that the cloud was Father John Baptist who had just died the night before, 60 miles away. He used to go through the garden to see the goldfish in the fountain, before going to the church to pray.)
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A seven year old, Gigi Geardino, who was dying of cancer, got permission to be buried at the Mission, a day before she died. Violets mysteriously sprung up on the girl's grave and thrived, despite of a climate that was normally too hot for violets to grow in. Some years later, when the girl's mom died, a white violet again mysteriously sprang up among the purple ones.
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