The Miracle Detective An Investigation of Holy Visions
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In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young Mexican 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 and set off to interview "the miracle detectives." These were the theologians, historians, and postulators from the Sacred Congregation of the Causes for Saints who 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 Vatican City in Rome to the tiny village of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where six visionaries have been receiving apparitions of the Virgin Mary. These raptures have been the subject of more medical and scientific examination than any other purported supernatural event ever recorded. An examination of the longest-running Marian apparitions in history, and the author's own faith and beliefs as he himself becomes a miracle detective, are at the heart of Randall Sullivan's stunning new book, The Miracle Detective.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780871139160 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pub date: | 10 Mar 2004 |
Edition: | 1st Edition |
DEWEY: | 232.917 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 450 |
Weight: | 748g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 38mm |