Apparition Fever: Observing the Virgin Mary in Belgium (Volume 101) (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)

by Tine Van Osselaer

In the early 1930s, a wave of Marian apparitions - cases in which visionaries reported seeing and receiving messages from the Virgin Mary - swept over Belgium. With over forty apparition sites and hundreds of visionaries, the Belgian apparitions - often attended by crowds of onlookers - were unrivalled in scope and complexity, and they confronted Catholics and others with a question: How do you decide what you believe? Apparition Fever explores the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228024722
• ISBN13: 9780228024729
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 384 Pages