Will I love Encountering Mary?

I thought religious apparitions went out with modern secularization, but Zimdars-Swartz’s engrossing report set me straight. I admire Zimdars-Swartz for not trying to persuade readers that apparitions are real or fake. Instead, she documents a growing trend in modern apparitions of the Virgin that began in 1830, when Mary appeared to Catherine Labouré in the Convent of the Sisters of Charity in Paris. After that, Mary began appearing to select visionaries in public places all over 19th-century Europe, speaking mostly to powerless women and children.

Zimdars-Swartz leads us through the famous serial apparitions at Lourdes, Fatima, Garabandal, and later outside… show more.