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      The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
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Lewis Wallace

Lewis Wallace is a freelance writer and activist based in Chicago. He graduated from Northwestern University with honors in religious studies. Most recently, he has written for make/shift mag, Left Turn, and Prison Legal News. He is currently pursuing an ongoing study of the medieval bearded woman saint known as Wilgefortis and working full time as a music writer for the educational website Shmoop.com.

(A)theologiesMarch 22, 2011

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

About twenty miles outside of Green Bay and over a mile from even the smallest town, a tiny sign at a remote intersection points visitors toward Chapel Drive, site of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, site of the only approved site of a Marian apparition in the U.S. 

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