The Miracle Detective: An Investigation of Holy Visions

by RandallSullivan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  As sightings of the Virgin Mary have increased around the world over the last couple of decades, the Vatican has placed increased importance on a group of theologians, scientists and physicians whose job is to investigate them. These are the miracle detectives. Randall Sullivan's book follows these investigators on the trail of the Virgin Mary from the Vatican City in Rome to Oregon, Arizona, Venezuela, Switzerland, Ireland, Japan and Kenya. What he discovers is that every road and each mystery leads back to a tiny village in Bosnia. There, against the background of the ongoing war, eight young visionaries have been receiving what they say are the final apparitions of the Madonna. These appearances, which began in 1981 in a small village in the former Yugoslavia, have been more thoroughly examined than any purported miraculous phenomenon in history. To date, the results defy explanation. This is an amazing story of religious mysticism, as well as a testing of the author's own faith and beliefs.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $5.81

  In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young Mexican woman sees a vision of the Virgin Mary. After being met with scepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially places the matter 'under investigation'. Journalist Randall Sullivan wants to know how exactly one might conduct the official inquiry into such an incident and sets off to interview 'the miracle detectives'. These are the theologians, historians and postulators from the Sacred Congregation of the Causes for Saints who are charged by the Vatican with testing the miraculous and judging the holy. Sullivan's investigation leads from Vatican City in Rome via Lourdes to the tiny village of Medjugorje, where six visionaries have been receiving apparitions of the Virgin Mary over a number of years. An examination of the longest-running Marian apparitions in history, and the author's own faith and beliefs as he himself becomes a miracle detective, are at the heart of Randall Sullivan's stunning new book.