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A woman claims she was cured of her illness after she drank from a "holy tap" in a remote NT community. The woman claims water from the tap, located next to the site of the old Lutheran church in Hermannsburg, was responsible for curing her illness. Aborigines believe the site of the tap is holy ground because the missionaries built it on a spot God had personally chosen.
Word is now spreading about the holy tap. Elderly or ill Aborigines in Alice Springs ask relatives to bring them the holy water, which they drink straight from the bottle.
This issue requires gentle management by the Lutheran Church or, to put it another, more accurate way, non-management. They quietly hope the tap will go away.Locals believe the tap could create the same hysteria as a "holy spring" that emerged in the Catholic community of Santa Teresa about 15 years ago.
The spring appeared after an art teacher, a white woman of very strong faith, took Aboriginal women on a pilgrimage to the small village of Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared in 1981.
The Aboriginal women returned to Santa Teresa filled with powerful belief.
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