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100 1 $aBlackbourn, David,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80022578
245 10 $aMarpingen :$bapparitions of the Virgin Mary in nineteenth-century Germany /$cDavid Blackbourn.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c1994.
300 $axxxiv, 510 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [471]-493) and index.
505 0 $a1. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- 2. The Place: A Changing Village in the Saarland -- 3. The Time: Economic Crisis and Political Repression in the 1870s -- 4. The Visionaries and their World -- 5. Pilgrims, Cures, and Commercialization -- 6. The Reaction of the Clergy -- 7. The Apparitions and State Repression -- 8. The Catholic Response -- 9. Progress and Piety: Liberal Hostility -- 10. The State Climbs Down -- 11. The Church Stays Silent -- 12. The German Lourdes? Marpingen in the Twentieth Century.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aAs 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.
520 8 $aTens 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. 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.".
520 8 $aBlackbourn, 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.
520 8 $aRanging 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.
520 8 $aA remarkable piece of historical detective work by an important scholar.
600 00 $aMary,$cBlessed Virgin, Saint$xApparitions and miracles$zGermany$zMarpingen.
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651 0 $aMarpingen (Germany)$xChurch history.
610 20 $aCatholic Church$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001053
650 0 $aChurch and state$xCatholic Church$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistory$yWilliam I, 1871-1888.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054577
651 0 $aGermany$xChurch history$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054479
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