Lady Chastity's Last Stand

May, 1979

Lady Chastity's Last StandThe first time the Virgin Mary appeared to Brother Bearle, he swerved his $25,000 Prussian-blue Mercedes head On into a telephone pole. He was on his way home from the Beach of Faith, cruising along a black stretch of road, when the moon suddenly nudged a space between the clouds. Across the low dark backs of the dunes, he saw the delicate figure of a woman illuminated in the mist. She was standing by the ocean's edge, clothed in a white robe and a flowing pale-blue cap...