Cousins take campaign to canonize Boulder Creek woman Cora Evans to Vatican. Could her former house in the hills be the next holy destination?
BOULDER CREEK – Brut Farris moved into a cottage among the towering redwoods overlooking the Boulder Creek deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains about 15 years ago because it was scenic — not sacred.
He had no idea back then that the property’s previous owner, the late Cora Evans who died here in 1957, was a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic Church. He hadn’t heard the stories that she was considered a mystic and fell into deep trances and wrote thousands of pages about walks with God. He didn’t know that she tended a meandering garden path down the hillside where she prayed before religious statues tucked into homemade rock grottos.
If it’s anytime soon, believers might find, along with the Harleys and ATVs in the driveway, a place of curiosities and contradictions, the secular and the sacred, amid damage from this winter’s storms that even insurance companies would consider “Acts of God.” Cora Evans is featured in a pamphlet created by The Mystical Humanity of Christ, a Catholic non-profit organization based at Sacred Heart Parish in Saratoga.
“When she would come back to herself, she would share what she had seen — having to do with Jesus, Mary and Joseph,” Thomas said. But first, the Vatican congregation must review 11,000 pages of documents compiled by Huston and McDevitt and others, neatly packed in 11 white boxes, wrapped in red ribbon and secured with the wax seal of the Monterey Diocese.
After her death, her property a half mile from Johnnie’s Super Market in downtown Boulder Creek was purchased, then split in two. Her three-bedroom house sits on one lot and looks ready to fall down the hillside into the rain-swollen creek. During this winter’s storms, a tree smashed through the back deck, and large branches pierced the roof. A blue tarp covers most of it now.
And instead of gardens and a sanctuary to the Blessed Mother Mary down by the creek, Farris has set up a mannequin for target shooting with his bow and arrow. Already, nearly two dozen strangers have shown up over the years asking about Cora Evans, and Farris often obliges with a quick tour on his side of the property.
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