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Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?
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Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?

Here is an anecdote---one of several in a theme, they say---about the actor Jim Caviezel during the filming of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: This was especially evident…
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