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Anxiety as Legio Maria faithful flock to shrine

Legio Maria faithful during a church procession at St Michael Kwayo Mapera Legion Maria Church in Suna East Sub-county, in May. [File, Standard]

Thousands of Legio Maria faithfuls have started arriving at the church’s headquarters and Shrine at Got Kwer in Migori for the annual pilgrimage.

The worshipers, who are dressed in multi-coloured robes and have wooden crosses and swords, arrived on foot, motorcycles, bicycles and vehicles at the shrine where their ‘Messiah’ Melkio was buried in 1991.

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