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...Grandma-on the cloth...
...little girl named Iris Reigle spoke those words at the end of a prayer meeting at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Shamokin, Pa. The 25 worshipers looked at the white brocade cloth covering the altar tabernacle where consecrated bread is kept. On the cloth, in use for. 15 years, they now saw a pattern of shadows that seemed to them to resemble the face of Jesus. "We called some of our friends and told them they had to come immediately," recalls Housewife Violet Burrows. "We were afraid it would go away...
...Their Knees. It has not. Since that prayer meeting on the Wednesday after Easter, busloads of people from as far away as Texas and California have flocked to the humble coal town of 12,000 to gaze at the Christ of the tabernacle cloth. One day a band of bejeweled gypsies roared up in a red Rolls-Royce, crawled on their knees to the altar, and left 13 dozen red roses as they departed. By last week the number of visitors had passed 60,000 (including repeaters), even though news accounts of the "miracle" cloth have been spotty. On weekends...
...eyes?" "Just where the fold is-that's the hair." So run the hushed comments as cloth watchers stand three deep before the altar. "This is my fifth visit," says...
...miracle cloth is moved periodically, and while most see what they consider to be the face of Jesus, others discern two kneeling figures or Jesus standing with a staffer the Virgin Mary. TIME'S Marion Knox, during a visit to Holy Trinity, observed "a vague impression of two eyes, a jaw line, a nose and possibly hair. It's perfectly visible, just as you can spot a horse in a cloud after someone has suggested it is there...