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Elvira Mendoza de Vidales visits daily to maintain a shrine where she says the image of the Virgin de Guadalupe appears in an oak tree at Pinto Lake County Park in Watsonville, Calif. Vidales has a mirror that she readily brings out for visitors, tilting it with an experienced hand to shine a beam on an oval-shaped image in the bark of the tree. It is visible, several feet up the live oak.

20 years after vision, woman cares daily for Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine

Thousands of people have trod the dirt path leading to the shore of Pinto Lake County Park in the 20 years since a Watsonville, Calif., woman reported seeing a vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe in an oak tree there.

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RELIGION

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