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• catalog abstract ""In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience and the larger meaning of this wave of sightings of Mary and the saints which began shortly after Spain became a republic and anticlerical mobs burned religious houses in several cities. Before repression from the government and condemnation from the Vatican finally drove the visionaries into secrecy, more than a million people had visited the original apparition site at Ezkioga." "William Christian writes about two kinds of visionaries and their relation to each other: the seers who had visions of Mary and the saints, and the believers who had a vision for the future which they hoped Mary and the saints would confirm. Together, these visionaries attempted to convince a skeptical world that heavenly beings were appearing on the Iberian peninsula." "Christian immersed himself in the lives of these visionaries, retracing their steps and recreating their world. He spoke with hundreds of witnesses, who led him to caches of vision messages, diaries, clandestine publications, and eloquent photographs in, for example, a clinic in Dijon, a garage in southern France, a cloistered convent in Valladolid, a farm attic in the Basque country, a house in a Catalan mill town, and a chapel in an orange grove in Valencia." "By turns intense, poignant, fierce, and funny, this long-hidden history demonstrates the vital role of the extraordinary in giving voice to a society's hope and anguish. What do people want to learn from heaven that they cannot learn on earth? How are their churches failing them in these needs? How are we affected by seers and the kinds of believers who nudge seers along? How do vision messages converge on certain themes?"--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b9052521.
• catalog coverage "Ezquioga (Spain) Church history 20th century.".
• catalog coverage "Spain Church history 20th century.".
• catalog coverage "Spain History Republic, 1931-1939.".
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description ""In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience and the larger meaning of this wave of sightings of Mary and the saints which began shortly after Spain became a republic and anticlerical mobs burned religious houses in several cities. Before repression from the government and condemnation from the Vatican finally drove the visionaries into secrecy, more than a million people had visited the original apparition site at Ezkioga." "William Christian writes about two kinds of visionaries and their relation to each other: the seers who had visions of Mary and the saints, and the believers who had a vision for the future which they hoped Mary and the saints would confirm. Together, these visionaries attempted to convince a skeptical world that heavenly beings were appearing on the Iberian peninsula." "Christian immersed himself in the lives of these visionaries, retracing their steps and recreating their world. He spoke with hundreds of witnesses, who led him to caches of vision messages, diaries, clandestine publications, and eloquent photographs in, for example, a clinic in Dijon, a garage in southern France, a cloistered convent in Valladolid, a farm attic in the Basque country, a house in a Catalan mill town, and a chapel in an orange grove in Valencia." "By turns intense, poignant, fierce, and funny, this long-hidden history demonstrates the vital role of the extraordinary in giving voice to a society's hope and anguish. What do people want to learn from heaven that they cannot learn on earth? How are their churches failing them in these needs? How are we affected by seers and the kinds of believers who nudge seers along? How do vision messages converge on certain themes?"--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-502) and indexes.".
• catalog description "Mary, the Republic, and the Basques -- Promoters and seers I: Antonio Amundarain and Carmen Medina -- Promoters and seers II: the Catalans -- Promoters and seers III: Monsieur Rigné and Padre Burguera -- Suppression by church and state -- The proliferation of visions -- Religious professionals -- Kinds of seers and contact between social classes -- The vision states -- Sacred landscapes -- Petitions from believers -- The living and the dead -- The end of the world -- Aftermath -- Questions without answers.".
• catalog extent "xxii, 544 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0520200403 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Ezquioga (Spain) Church history 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "Spain Church history 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "Spain History Republic, 1931-1939.".
• catalog subject "232.91/7/094609043 20".
• catalog subject "BT652.S7 C57 1996".
• catalog subject "Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Apparitions and miracles Spain Ezquioga History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Apparitions and miracles Spain Ezquioga.".
• catalog subject "Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Apparitions and miracles Spain History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Apparitions and miracles Spain.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Mary, the Republic, and the Basques -- Promoters and seers I: Antonio Amundarain and Carmen Medina -- Promoters and seers II: the Catalans -- Promoters and seers III: Monsieur Rigné and Padre Burguera -- Suppression by church and state -- The proliferation of visions -- Religious professionals -- Kinds of seers and contact between social classes -- The vision states -- Sacred landscapes -- Petitions from believers -- The living and the dead -- The end of the world -- Aftermath -- Questions without answers.".
• catalog title "Visionaries : the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ / William A. Christian, Jr.".
• catalog type "Church history. fast".
• catalog type "text".