Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 19, 2016)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Our Lady of the Nations: Apparitions of Mary in Twentieth-Century Catholic Europe; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Note on Terminology; Contents; List of Tables; List of Plates; 1: Introduction: Apparitions of Mary in the Twentieth Century; Visionary Phenomena, Visionaries, and Shrines; Seeing and Hearing the Virgin Mary; The Presence of Mary in an Alternative History; Structure of this Work; 2: Immaculate and Sorrowful Mary: Apparitions 1830-1917; Catholic Marian Apparitions in the Nineteenth Century

Catholic Marian Apparitions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Three TemplatesThe Apparitions at F�atima; F�atima and Political Change in Portugal; 3: Sister L�ucia�s Narrative of War and Peace; The Revelations of Sister L�ucia; `F�atima I� and `F�atima II�; Catholic Controversy over F�atima; Assessing F�atima; 4: Catholic Interpretations; Catholic Discernment of Apparitions; Church Judgements on Apparitions; 5: Women as Visionaries; The Predominance of Women and Child Visionaries; Victim Souls and Wise Women; Women as Popular Theologians; 6: Children as Visionaries

Children and Imaginative PlayChildren�s Spirituality; Visions and Adolescence; 7: Basque Raggle-Taggle: Ezkioga; The Account of Walter Starkie; Ezkioga and the Spanish Second Republic; Ezkioga and the Catholic Church; The Miracle and the Chastisement of Ezkioga; 8: Between the Wars: The Belgian Visionary `Epidemic�; Text and Context; The Apparitions at Beauraing and Banneux; Controversies; Many Apparitions in Flanders and Wallonia; The Authentication of Beauraing and Banneux; Non-Authenticated Apparitions; 9: `When the Gestapo Hounded the Apparitions�: Mary in Nazi Germany

The Question of Catholicism and the Third ReichMarian Visions During the Third Reich; 10: Hearts and Nations: Visionary Women as Popular Theologians; Jeanne-Louise Ramonet of Kerizinen, Brittany; Ida Peerdeman of Amsterdam; Jeanne-louise ramonet and ida peerdeman as `popular theologians�; 11: The Cold War and the Marian Cult; The Intensification of the Marian Apparition Cult; Post-War Italy; Casanova Staffora: The Vocation of Angela Volpini; Post-War Germany; 12: Vatican II: Visionary Reactions to Change in the Church?; Apparitions and Vatican II; The Events at Garabandal

Garabandal and Vatican IISan damiano and the `madonna of the roses�; 13: Medjugorje: The Queen of Peace and a Civil War; History, Politics, and Conflict; The Medjugorje Apparitions; Catholic Responses to Medjugorje; Episcopal Judgement; Clerical Support; Priests Against Medjugorje; Medjugorje and the Croatian State; The Medjugorje Cult; 14: Grottoes, Statues, and Visions in Ireland; From Moving Statues to Apparitions; Social Interpretations of the Visionary Phenomena; Clerical Perspectives; The Media Viewpoint; After the 1980s; 15: The 1980s: Italy, Spain, France, and England

This work explores the social histories of the twentieth-century Marian apparitions in Europe, looking at the ecclesiastical response, and examining the Mariology that is adopted by the devotees.

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