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PEAK EXPERIENCE
Left, Joseph Abeyta, who took part in the pilgrimage, sports a tattoo of the Virgin
of Guadalupe. During Agostini’s lifetime, some visitors to his cave on Hermit Peak, below,
claimed to see an image of the Virgin in the sky.