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Publisher's description: A gripping investigation into the extraordinary phenomenon of Virgin Mary sightings around the world, the priests and scientists who investigate them, and a powerful examination about what constitutes the miraculous in the contemporary world. In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially placed the matter 'under investigation.' Investigative journalist Randall Sullivan wanted to know how exactly one might conduct the official inquiry into such an incident, so he set off to interview theologians, historians, and postulators from the Sacred Congregation of the Causes for Saints. These men, dubbed by the author as 'miracle detectives' were charged by the Vatican with testing the miraculous and judging the holy. What Sullivan didn't know was that his own investigation would lead from the Vatican in Rome to the tiny village of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where six visionaries had been receiving apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Amid a tapestry of believers,
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sullivan, Randall
- Publisher
- Pub Group West
- Published
- 1958
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802131010
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Christian, History, Sociology
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (58 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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