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Encountering Mary : From La Salette to Medjugorje

In the past two centuries hundreds of apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been reported, drawing crowds to the seers and the sites and constituting events of great religious significance for millions of people worldwide. Here Sandra Zimdars-Swartz provides a detective-like investigation of the exper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimdars-Swartz, Sandra L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In the past two centuries hundreds of apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been reported, drawing crowds to the seers and the sites and constituting events of great religious significance for millions of people worldwide. Here Sandra Zimdars-Swartz provides a detective-like investigation of the experiences and interpretations of six major apparitions, including those at La Salette and Lourdes in France during the mid-nineteenth century; at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917; and the more recent ones at San Damiano, Italy; Garabandal, Spain; and Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, where the apparitions continue.
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9781400861637