By Adri-Ann Peters
Crowds have been flocking to a flat in Lavender Hill where an 18-year-old girl says she saw a vision of Jesus in her frosted bathroom window.
Residents say the image resembling Christ on the cross, flanked by six angels, has now appeared four times, attracting hundreds of people, who queue outside the ground floor flat in Parkin Court to marvel at the sight.
It started when Remona Petersen, 18, looked through the bathroom window on Saturday, shortly after 7pm, and saw a bright but hazy image of Christ's silhouette on a cross.
"I looked up from rinsing the mop in the bathroom and suddenly the vision came to me. What I saw on the glass was a human form on a cross with his arms stretched out on either side, all inside a circle."
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Overpowered by emotion, Remona said she immediately burst into tears and ran outside to see if it could have been the reflection of an outside light on the window, but found nothing.
The image of the crucifix appeared again on Monday, this time accompanied by "six smaller angels" - then again on Tuesday and last night, by which time the "good news" had spread through Lavender Hill and neighbouring areas.
One of the curious neighbours is a self- proclaimed sceptic, known only as Mrs Minis, a 49-year-old resident of Parkin Court. She said she had gone to see the image twice to make sure it was real.
"My entire family thought I was nuts when I told them, but this must be for real, because you can clearly see the body on the cross surrounded by small angels with wings and a hazy cloud-like formation around it," she said.
Belinda Mutala, 44, also from the area, said she even managed to capture the white X-ray-like image on her cellphone camera.
"I believe this is a sign from God, because when I saw it I wasn't even scared.
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