| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xxxiv, 510 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxx) and index. |
| Contents |
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- The Place: A Changing Village in the Saarland -- The Time: Economic Crisis and Political -- The Visionaries and their World -- Pilgrims, Cures, Commercialization -- The Reaction of the Clergy -- The Apparitions and State Repression -- The Catholic Response -- Progress and Piety: Liberal Hostility -- The State Climbs Down -- The Church Stays Silent -- The German Lourdes? Marpingen in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"In a riveting work of historical research, David Blackbourn brings to light the period surrounding the days in July 1876 when three young girls claimed to have sighted the Virgin Mary in the fields outside the German town of Marpingen."--BOOK JACKET. "As journalists, priests, and sellers of pious memorabilia descended on Marpingen, the sleepy town rapidly metamorphosed into a cause celebre, with supporters and opponents referring to it as "the German Lourdes," and even "the Bethlehem of Germany." "It is an undeniable fact that the whole world is talking about Marpingen," wrote one sympathetic commentator. "Marpingen has become the center of events that have shaken the world," suggested another."--BOOK JACKET. "Tens of thousands of pilgrims flocked to the town, prompting numerous claims of miraculous cures - as well as military intervention, the dispatch of an undercover detective, parliamentary debate, and a dramatic trial."--BOOK JACKET. "Pondering what had happened from another perspective was a man on whom the drama placed a heavy burden. "The events are so tremendous," wrote a Marpingen parish priest, "that a true account of them would already fill a book.""--BOOK JACKET. "Blackbourn, a leading historian of modern Germany, vividly portrays the Catholic world of the Bismarckian era through a detailed exploration of the changing social, economic, and community structures that formed its matrix, and provides a sensitive account of popular religious beliefs. Ranging widely across the fields of social, cultural, and political history, he powerfully evokes the crisis-laden atmosphere of the 1870s, revealing the subtle interplay between politics and religion, the changing nature of the family itself, and the ferment of ideas that fueled the great debate over "modernity." And in a final chapter, he looks ahead to the renewed apparitions of the Virgin in twentieth-century Marpingen against the background of war, Nazism, and the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET. "A remarkable piece of historical detective work by an important scholar."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- Germany -- Marpingen.
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Catholic Church -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. (OCoLC)fst00068107
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Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720
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Church and state -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Marpingen (Germany) -- Church history.
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Church and state -- Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century.
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Germany -- History -- William I, 1871-1888.
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Germany -- Church history -- 19th century.
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Apparitions. (OCoLC)fst00811524
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Church and state. (OCoLC)fst00860509
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Church and state -- Catholic Church.
(OCoLC)fst00860512
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Germany -- Marpingen.
(OCoLC)fst01216178
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Indexed Term |
Catholic Germany History 19th century |
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Church Catholic History 19th century |
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Church Germany History 19th century |
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Germany Church 19th century |
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Germany History William I, 1871-1888 |
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Marpingen Church history |
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Mary Blessed Apparitions Germany Marpingen |
| Genre/Form |
Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0679418431 |
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9780679418436 |
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