Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: Local Visions and Cosmic Drama

by Paolo Apolito

Societies in Western Europe undergo periods of spiritual excitement in which people are more open to signs from heaven or elsewhere, and lulls during which those who claim direct messages from the divine are ignored, ridiculed, or persecuted. Since the late 1960s, Catholic Europe has been in the throes of a kind of re-enchantment, with its immediate model the visions at Medjugorje and its background the intensive promotion of the visions of La Salette,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271017953
• ISBN13: 9780271017952
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"