Don't Let Us Rush You, But ...

In the suburbs of Mexico City is one of the world's major Catholic pilgrimage shrines, the Basilica of Guadelupe. It is said that the Virgin Mary appeared to an Aztec Indian soon after the Spanish conquest, and when the priest didn't believe him, kept coming back and finally imprinted her image on his cloak to prove herself.

There are now seven churches scattered around the site of this apparition. The cloak is in the most recent, a huge round 1970s structure that looks more like a U.S. Protestant megachurch than like any Catholic basilica I've ever seen:

They've set up a viewing area behind the church's altar where you can see the cloak, but to make sure you don't linger too long, make you get on a moving sidewalk that whisks you past the thing and out:

Apparently this comes in especially handy on her feast day, Dec. 12, when more than 100,000 people all try to see the cloak at the same time.