Theresa Skosana, who works at The Star, travelled to Benoni this week to see Francesca Zackey, 17, who claims she was visited by the Virgin Mary at the beginning of May.
"When she touched me," said Skosana, a devout Catholic, "I felt as though I had no bones in my body. I fell down and went somewhere else.
"When I returned to myself, I felt very calm, very at peace. And, though I am not going to divulge what it was, I received a special blessing the next day."
Jennifer Johnson, the newsroom secretary at The Sunday Independent, who calls herself "a believer, though perhaps not as devout as I should be", also visited Zackey.
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'Let go, relax, you must have faith' "She is a very strong young woman," said Johnson, "so when she made the sign of the cross on my forehead with holy water, and pressed against my head, I lay down. I did not faint or have an out-of-body experience.
"But, as I lay there and prayed, and she blessed me in tongues, I did feel a great deal of calm and peace."
I also stepped forward to be "spiritually healed" and found myself shoving against Zackey's hand as she, having made the sign of the cross on my forehead with water, pressed hard against my head.
"Let go, relax, you must have faith," she said to me.
Not seeing much point in continuing with my imitation of Os du Randt, the Springbok prop forward, I complied and lay down on the floor where Zackey's father, Frank, supplied me with a pillow.
Francesca continued ministering to my forehead and praying "in tongues", while Frank, apparently realising his daughter was dealing with a perhaps more recalcitrant case than usual, joined in.
While Francesca knelt at my side, Frank paced around the Zackey living room - which was filled with numerous pictures of Jesus and his mother, as well as a statue of the Virgin Mary - praying for me at the same time as his daughter was.
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