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Grove Press
March 2005
On Sale: March 18, 2005
450 pages
ISBN: 0802141951
EAN: 9780802141958
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Non-Fiction Religion
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
matter was officially placed "under investigation" by the
Catholic diocese. 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
"miracle detectives" by the author, were charged by the
Vatican with testing the miraculous and judging the
holy. Sullivan traveled 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. Sullivan's quest turns personal and takes him to
Scottsdale, Arizona, site of America's largest and most
controversial instances of Virgin Mary sightings,
culminating an eight-year investigation of predictions of
apocalyptic events, false claims of revelation, and the
search for a genuine theophany-that is, the ultimate
interface between man and God.
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