Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje

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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 apparition

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Winner of the 1993 Byron Caldwell Smith Award, University of Kansas "A fascinating study of seven apparitions of the Virgin Mary reported since 1846 and of how such events, usually cryptic at first, are interpreted and accepted-or not-by ecclesiastical authority."--New York Times Book Review