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Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje
Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz
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Description for Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
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. Adopting a phenomenological approach to these "encounters with Mary"--one that is neither apologetic ... Read more
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. Adopting a phenomenological approach to these "encounters with Mary"--one that is neither apologetic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691600550
SKU
V9780691600550
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Reviews for Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje
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."
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