Photos: Our Lady of the Sierras before and after fire
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Our Lady of the Sierras suffered extensive damage during the Monument Fire in June 2011. The shrine is a destination for pilgrims from U.S. and Mexico. Photos from before and after fire.
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Visitors to Our Lady of the Sierras in the Huachuca Mountains are dwarfed by a 75- foot cross and 30-foot statue of the Virgin Mary.
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A statue of an angel sits atop of a hillside Dec. 3, 2008 at Our Lady of the Sierras shrine. Gerald and Pat Chouinard built the shrine on their property and it has become a destination for pilgrims from U.S. and Mexico.
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The morning sun breaks over the San Pedro River Valley and the giant cross that is part of the Our Lady of the Sierras Shrine, Hereford, AZ. January 7, 2011
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A memorial sits on the path of the stations of the cross at Our Lady of the Sierras in the Huachuca Mountains that has become a destination for pilgrims from U.S. and Mexico.
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After walking nearly 21 miles from Bisbee, Rafael Romo prays at Our Lady of the Sierras shrine to fulfill a "manda" or obligation to God that he undertook to ask forgiveness after being released from an 8 month prison term.
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One of the hundreds of religious pilgrims present at the Dec. 19, 2008 rosary service places a piece of paper with prayers written on it into a cradle at the base of a statue of the Virgin Mary at Our Lady of the Sierras in the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista.
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A statue of an angel sits atop of a hillside Dec. 3, 2008 at Our Lady of the Sierras shrine. Gerald and Pat Chouinard built the shrine on their property and it has become a destination for pilgrims from U.S. and Mexico.
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Manny Garcia leads his daughter Natalie Garcia on a path through a hillside stations of the cross at Our Lady of the Sierras in the Huachuca Mountains.
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Parents Adalberto Mada, left and Marisela Mada, and grandparents Maria Jesus Mada and Marco Antonio Mada pray the rosary on behalf of two week old Adalberto Mada Jr. who sits under a statue of the Virgin Mary.
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Two week old Adalberto Mada Jr. sits under a statue of the Virgin Mary at Mary's Knoll, part of a shrine to Our Lady of the Sierras in the Huachuca Mountains that has become a destination for pilgrims from U.S. and Mexico. Adalberto's parents and grandparents brought him to the shrine to pray the rosary and thank the Virgin Mary for his healthy birth.
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Pat Chouinard arranges the altar following a prayer service at the chapel at Our Lady of the Sierras in the Huachuca Mountains. Pat reports "locutions" she receives from the Virgin Mary which have been recorded and compiled in a book, which is available at no cost to visitors to the shrine.
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The moonscape landscape of the Mountain View Road neighborhood as seen from Our Lady of The Sierras on Mary's Hill is all that remains Thursday morning, June 16, 2011, as a result of the Monument Fire near Sierra, Vista.
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The remains of Our Lady of The Sierras on Mary's Hill is all that remains Thursday morning as the Monument Fire continues to burn in the background, Thursday, June 16, 2011.
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Our Lady of the Sierras after Tuesday's devastating Monument fire in Ash Canyon on Wednesday. Photo credit: Beatrice Richardson Herald/Review June 14, 2011
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Rubble fills the chapel at Our Lady of the Sierras after it was claimed last week by the Monument Fire in Sierra Vista, Ariz., on Thursday June 23, 2011.
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The remains of two cars in a garage at Our Lady of The Sierras on Mary's Hill Thursday morning as the Monument Fire continues to burn in the background, Thursday, June 16, 2011.
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In this May 31, 2012 photo, Donna Ramaeker works on the mural inside Our Lady of the Sierras in Hereford, Ariz. Ramaeker also painted the shrine's original mural, which was destroyed in the Monument Fire last year. (AP Photo/Sierra Vista Herald, Beatrice Richardson)
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