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A close-up look at the lives of three children who saw Mary
The faith of millions has been energized by the now-famous events at Fatima, a tiny Portuguese village where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared repeatedly to three young shepherds with a message for the whole world. In these apparitions of 1917, approved by the Catholic Church in 1930 as "worthy of belief," Jesus' mother prophesied the end of Word War I, the coming of World War II, the global spread of Communism, and much more. During her last visit to Fatima, the celebrated "miracle of the sun"--a spectacular atmospheric phenomenon--occurred in the presence of more than 70,000 astonished witnesses.
The beatification of two of the Portuguese visionaries in 2000 has stirred new interest in the message of Fatima. In response to this worldwide hunger to know more about what happened there, Italian journalists Renzo and Roberto Allegri present the intriguing story behind the miracles--an inside look at the everyday lives of the shepherd children, their families, and their village.
The authors take us with them on their recent visit to the sites where the startling occurrences took place. There, they interview close relatives of the visionaries whose familiarity with the people and events of Fatima provides insights no one else could offer.
With the intimacy of a personal diary and the warmth of a family album, Fatima: The Story Behind the Miracles will give you a revealing glimpse into the faith and courage of young saints-in-the-making.
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Everyone Should Read this Book.......2006-12-16
I was drawn to this book because as a convert to Catholicism, Mary is new to me as a religious figure in the foreground. This was a book that dealt with not only a Marian apparition, but one that happened in the time of relatively more modern media.
It is absolutely an amazing story, with the final miracle being witnessed by thousands and recounted in Portaguese newspapers. The story is retold by a blood relative of one of the children.
If there is one criticism of the book, I would say it is the authors' over reliance on their one source. He is an incredible source, no question, but they limit themselves a little bit by not bring in additional sources more often.
Very interesting..........2006-11-17
I found this book very interesting. I have been aware of Fatima since I was a teengager (now 49). I read other books about the story. This book had some additional information...of a rather spiritual nature about the kids that I found very intersting and thought provoking.
I don't know why the other reviewer didn't like the book...I found it very good.
The story out of the History.......2006-06-16
Yes, we can deal with Fatima events from two ways: 1) by faith and assuming that the official version of this kind of books, made by foreigners without factual basis or 2) in historical grounds searching to look on the original documents and analyse them outside the cultural interpretation of the marian apparitions kind. This is the great problem of almost books on Fatima: they are more "fatimists" than Fatima itself and use the imagination without control in a fundamentalist quest that is blind to the true documents reality.
When the faith lead the writer we can do anything but see all these
approaches as a story that is out of History.
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- NOT a "Snow Falling on Cedars" by any stretch of imagination
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David Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest navigates between the mystical and the cynical in its slowly paced telling of a Marian encounter in North Fork, Washington. The story opens in the North Fork campground among homeless mushroom pickers. The town is reeling from the loss of its logging industry, and its residents make their way by scavenging odd jobs and selling the produce of the forest. Living in the campground, 16-year-old Anne Holmes is a runaway asthmatic whose recent interest in Catholicism follows a period of petty thievery, drug use, and frequent masturbation (an interest that Guterson notes is shared by the town priest, Father Don Collins). While off on her rounds of mushrooming one morning, she encounters a bright light--the Virgin Mary, she believes. Soon, she has drawn a band of thousands as people flock to North Fork to witness the vision and be healed. But, through Carolyn Greer, a world-weary fellow-mushroom-picker who longs for nothing more than an extended vacation to "Cabo"-- readers learn that Anne actually sees nothing, or at least no one else shares the Marian apparition that gives Anne lofty commands each day.
At times Guterson lets his characters' pettiness, opportunism, and cynicism overrun the delicacy of Anne's world. Carolyn's vehement atheism and materialistic languor undermine what could have been a stronger counter-point to her spiritual friend. Even Father Collins, who struggles between fatherly compassion and sexual longing for the young visionary, is too full of self-loathing for readers to embrace him. Yet, the novel's exploration of Anne's abrupt and intense faith pierces the narrative and brings light to it. And as Anne's visions grow in intensity and her health begins to fail, one can't help but long for divine intervention on her behalf. --Patrick O'Kelley
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From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—an emotionally charged, provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary.
Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day.
Father Collins—a young priest new to North Fork—finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to evaluate—impartially—the veracity of Ann’s sightings: Are they delusions, or a true calling to God? As word spreads and thousands, including the press, converge upon the town, Carolyn Greer, a smart-talking fellow mushroomer, becomes Ann’s disciple of sorts, as well as her impromptu publicity manager. And Tom Cross, an embittered logger who’s been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, finds in Ann’s visions a last chance for redemption for both himself and his son.
As Father Collins searches his own soul and Ann’s, as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions, as Tom alternates between despair and hope, Our Lady of the Forest tells a suspenseful, often wryly humorous, and deeply involving story of faith at a contemporary crossroads.
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From the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars -- an emotionally charged, provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary.
Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day.
Father Collins -- a young priest new to North Fork -- finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to evaluate -- impartially -- the veracity of Ann's sightings: Are they delusions, or a true calling to God? As word spreads and thousands, including the press, converge upon the town, Carolyn Greer, a smart-talking fellow mushroomer, becomes Ann's disciple of sorts, as well as her impromptu publicity manager. And Tom Cross, an embittered logger who's been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, finds in Ann's visions a last chance for redemption for both himself and his son.
As Father Collins searches his own soul and Ann's, as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions, as Tom alternates between despair and hope, Our Lady of the Forest tells a suspenseful, often wryly humorous, and deeply involving story of faith at a contemporary crossroads.
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NOT a "Snow Falling on Cedars" by any stretch of imagination.......2007-04-22
I read with great satisfaction Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars" for which he deserved an award... It was good reading and skillfully done... And of course I was interested since I was born in the Northwest and raised there... When he did refer to sex acts it was done within context.. Next I decided to read the next book, "East of the Mountains", also skillfully written but a bit more sex than the first book...
But, when I borrowed this one from my Public Library, I was distressed at how much of the book was taken up with the sex act, sexual fantasy, several of the main characters engaging in self sex, etc that it was not all that enjoyable... He could have told the story in about half the pages if that had been left out... Nowhere do the reviewers seem to note these pages.
However, Guterson is a good writer of description....
I would not recommend buying this book.
Just Plain Bad.......2006-07-08
David Guterson weaves a tale of religious mystery in his novel "Our Lady of the Forest." Ann Holmes, a 16-year-old runaway, claims to have seen the Virgin Mary in the forest where she was picking mushrooms. Mary continues to appear to Ann over the course of several days. Ann develops a following of people who hope to share in her visions.
Eventually the Catholic Church becomes involved. An investigator is sent to gather evidence of Ann's visions and confirm or deny their validity. Is Ann really see the mother of Jesus? or is she a disturbed girl clammoring for attention?
I read "Snow Falling on Cedars" earlier this year and I really enjoyed the novel. I decided I would check out Guterson's other works. Thankfully, I got this book from the library and didn't spend any actual money on it. It was just bad. The story moved so slowly that I was bored most of the time. The characters weren't that compelling. The narrative structure, the same used in "Cedars," did not work for this book at all. I felt that I couldn't connect with the characters, that I really didn't care what happened to them, and the plot was very dull.
I wouldn't really recommend this novel. Definitely check it out from the library if you feel compelled to read it.
A Perfect Example of Bloated Modern Prose.......2006-07-01
I have not read anything else by Guterson before this novel and was not familiar with his acclaim for Snow Falling on Cedars. I was ready to enjoy this novel. Guterson does great work in the first chapter to create an interesting scenario with a possibility of a vivid look at the difficulty of being religious in a postmodern society. The writing quickly turns to the bloated, repetitive prose of which many contemporary writers have been accused. There are numerous paragraphs in the text in which he rephrases the same concept over and over again within in the same sentence and throughout paragraphs. I fear for American literature if Guterson represent the new tastes of literature. Long-winded is not literary.
Beautifully Written.......2006-06-15
I would have given this a 5, but there are some problems in this book, as some other reviewers have noted.
He is a master of description, whether it is of people, the forest, the poverty of the town, logging, etc.
However, the character development is only fair. Why did the priest have issues with being a priest? How does he (or how doesn't he) deal with his need for intimacy & sex? And, most of all, what happened to Tom Cross, the unemployed logger whose son is paralyzed??? In the last chapter of the book, we are suddenly faced with tremendous changes in some of these people; how on earth did they change, and why?
I still recommend the book. Although not a Christian, I find Marian aparitions fascinating, and I give the author credit for making this the subject of his book. By the way, for a very good novel on a related topic, stigmata, read Mariette in Ecstasy by Rick Hansen.
It's practically plagiarism.......2006-05-31
A friend of mine lent me this book, and as soon as I saw the title, I knew it would be awful. The title is practically plagiarized from Jean Genet's 1943 masterpiece "Our Lady of the Flowers" and the plot is riddled with overt correlations as well. I have to say I'm surprised that any publisher would touch a book that was so obviously trying to copy a previous (and famous) work of literature, especially given that "Our Lady of the Forest" doesn't even come close to touching "Our Lady of the Flowers". If you're thinking about buying this book at all, don't. Go buy the original, which IS well written, with a wonderful introduction by Sartre.
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five miners buried alive in a cave in for five days. All five rescued and found in perfect health. They attribute their deliverance to Our Lady of Czestochowa's intercession.
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An Invaluable Record of the Early Days.......2000-07-26
This book is the most important work recording the early days of the apparitions of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, at Medjugorje, a village in Hercegovina. Printed in 1984, it has interviews with the visionaries and other principal personalities closely connected with the phenomenon, some of which were used in Fr. Pelletier's later work "The Queen of Peace Visits Medugorje".
The work is not a sensationalist piece but an organised and focussed work, giving good background information, a faithful rendering of the facts and balanced theological perspective. You get a good feel of the place in the days before it became a popular destination for millions of pilgrims.
I especially appreciate precious details like the names of the other villages in the region, and that the parish of St. James has given 19 priests and 20 nuns, a stunning record of vocations.
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In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe a patron saint of the Americas. According to oral tradition and historical documents, in 1531 Mary appeared as a beautiful Aztec princess to Juan Diego, a poor Indian. Speaking to him in his own language, she asked him to tell the bishop her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on the mountain. During a second visit, the image of the Virgin miraculously appeared on his cape. Through the centuries, the enigmatic power of this image has aroused such fervent devotion in Mexico that it has served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite skepticism and anticlericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. In Mexican Phoenix, David Brading traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence, and the theology that has sustained the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Brading also documents the interaction of religion and patriotism, and describes how the image has served as a banner both for independence and for the Church in its struggle against the Liberal and revolutionary state. David Brading is Professor of Mexican History at the University of Cambridge. He began his career at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Yale University. He is also the author of Church and State in Bourbon Mexico (Cambridge, 1994), The First America (Cambridge, 1991), and Miners and Merchants in Bourban Mexico, 1730-1810 (Cambridge, 1971). Hb ISBN (2001): 0-521-80131-1
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The image on the mantle.......2002-09-02
In the history of Catholic Marian devotion, the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe has no rivals. When Pope John Paul II recognized her as patron of the Americas in 1999, he was merely building on a tradition stretching back from Pius XII and Pius X in the twentieth century, to Leo XIII in the nineteenth and Benedict XIV in the eighteenth. No other Marian image has been accorded comparable honours.
The devotion is based on the story of the Virgin's apparitions to the Indian neophyte Juan Diego in 1531, and the subsequent appearance of her image, miraculously imprinted on the Indian's coarse mantle as he unrolled it to free the profusion of flowers that the Virgin had instructed him to take to a bishop. The mantle (tilma) is preserved in a basilica in Mexico City. The symbolic power of the devotion is impossible to exaggerate. It has been seen as the foundation of national identity, as a link between pre-Hispanic and modern times, as a rallying point uniting a racially complex society, and as a clear sign of divine favour.
Historians, however, have often felt uncomfortable with the lack of any convincing proof attesting to the existence of a tradition linked to the story before the publication of Miguel Sanchez's Image of the Virgin Mary in 1648. This disturbing gap has led to a number of attempts to connect Sanchez's treatise with an indigenous oral tradition stretching back to 1531, specifically to the sixteenth-century Indian humanist, Antonio Valeriano, still widely believed to be the author of the native Nahuatl account: the Nican mopohua. But recent scholarship has established that there is no evidence to support such a tradition. More-over, a meticulous linguistic analysis of the Nican mopohua conducted lately has demonstrated not only that the text is written in standard seventeenth-century church Nahuatl, but also that there is direct linguistic proof of its dependence on the treatise by Sanchez, a conclusion that invalidates all previous attempts to find a common source based on an earlier native oral tradition.
David Brading's definitive study, in Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe, image and tradition 1531-2000, the result of at least three decades' research, is a detailed history of the tradition across five centuries based on a staggering range of primary sources, from theological treatises, chronicles and sermons, to occasional letters and polemical tracts. He laments the "wild, ill-considered arguments derived from a passionate determination to defend the historical reality of tradition", a determination most recently illustrated in the brave attempt by the Jesuit Xavier Escalada "scientifically" to prove the authenticity of a dubious codex, allegedly dating from 1548, which depicts Juan Diego and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and is adorned by suitably apt contemporary signatures. "Within the context of the Christian tradition," writes Brading, it would have been "rather like finding a picture of St Paul's vision on the road to Damascus, drawn by St Luke and signed by St Peter."
But Mexican Phoenix is far from being a mere polemic. One of its many merits is that it wisely stays aloof from such fruitless debates in order to place the Guadalupe tradition in the much richer context of baroque piety. Brading demonstrates that Miguel Sanchez and the theological tradition in which he worked drew heavily on Eastern Orthodox spiritual literature, specifically the works of John of Damascus, Theodore the Studite and Basil the Great. Similarly, in the eighteenth century, several Jesuit writers echoed the suggestion, first voiced by Amadeus of Portugal in the fifteenth century, that Mary was present in images in the same way that Christ was present in the Eucharist. Brading has a keen eye for colourful detail and a deep sympathy for the intricacies and convolutions of the baroque, and this allows him to present Sanchez as one of the "most original, learned and audacious of Mexican theologians", the author of a treatise "brimming with devotion, in which religion and patriotism were inextricably meshed, and where audacious claims were sustained with deep learning".
Mexican Phoenix is incomparably the most complete and reliable study to have appeared on the Guadalupe tradition hitherto. Its conclusions, however, are more than likely to infuriate the zealous apparitionist school; so it is perhaps with this in mind that, in his concluding remarks, Brading makes an interesting theological excursus. Drawing on traditional church teaching, he reminds his potential critics that "in framing the gospels, God employed human authors who . . . could in no sense be seen as mere puppets used by a divine ventriloquist . . . . If that be the case, is there any real reason to suppose that when the Holy Spirit conceived the idea of the Guadalupe, he refrained from employing a human agent to implement that design?"
exquisite new approach.......2002-06-17
British historian David Brading offers an exquisite new approach to the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in a masterpiece resembling Jaroslav Pelikan's Jesus Through the Centuries. While controversy has surrounded the historicity of Juan Diego and Guadalupe in the past decade, Brading offers a thesis that invites us to move beyond "probable fact" to the meaning of the Guadalupe event in the course of Mexican history.
Guadalupe represents more than a historical episode, and the expression of Mexican identity she embodies requires a study that furthers the reflection on the meaning she has represented to the Mexican people throughout the centuries. The scandal surrounding the former abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which contributed poorly to the understanding of what Guadalupe means to her people, reduced faith and identity to mere scientific fact. Science ought to be but a single angle of interpretation to the cult that has always meant much more than "corroborated evidence for the supernatural."
Brading offers a way to move beyond the debate centered on declarations and counter declarations of the veracity of scientific fact, by contemplating the significance of Guadalupe from the heart of Mexican faith and history.This book is not an easy read, not exactly the pastoral manual on all things related to Guadalupe either. The uninitiated reader will not find the answers to all his or her Guadalupe questions easily. Both the theological and historical language used is largely for experts; nevertheless, if one manages to plow through the hermeneutics and the references to Byzantine iconography of the initial chapters, one will find the second half of the book most illuminating, particularly the post independence treatment of Guadalupe, which has not been as thoroughly studied as the colonial period.Mexican Phoenix is an exploration of the evolution of the Mexican psyche -- its need to affirm its identity and uniqueness, its search for symbols and authenticity.
The key is found in the collection of works that Brading has used to support his claims, panegyric sermons and other treatises used in different periods of Mexican history to "exalt the singular Providence which distinguished their country," especially those published in the 18th century at the height of Mexican patriotism on the threshold of independence.Despite the numerous books and theories on the Guadalupe apparitions and all the arguments that have fueled the debate over this event for centuries, Brading's new opus offers an elegant and comprehensive integration of the elements that have comprised this debate, both because of its historical thoroughness and its theological insight, Few historians have succeeded in unraveling the theological implications of the Guadalupe event with such skill. The transformation and process of the cult speak not only of the course of Mexican history but also of the evolution of its religiosity, in a way few other symbols can.
Perhaps Brading's most important contribution to contemporary Guadalupe scholarship is the historical and theological contextualization of the event. Myth, iconography and Catholic theology and history are all interwoven into an expert interpretation of the cultural convergence that took place in Guadalupe. Only a historian with his encyclopedic knowledge of the theological and historical context of the tradition could have ventured such an ambitious integration.
Few scholars have been able to place the Guadalupe cult in the perspective of the religious turmoil of the Counter-Reformation Catholic church. Moreover, he places texts in time and place referring to their use and acceptance, more than to the mere fact of their date of publication. Brading's hermeneutics of both the theological and historical texts (including images) lays the new rules for future study of Guadalupe.
Henceforward any serious debate, either historical or theological, will have to refer to the context Brading lays out in his book.After addressing the enigmatic silence of 16th-century sources for the Guadalupe event, Brading invites his readers to consider instead its theological dimensions. He recognizes that despite historicity, the image "possesses a charm and presence that exerts a power over the faithful" difficult to ignore. Any visit to the Basilica or any church consecrated in her name, or even the image in many a Catholic parish throughout the Hispanic world, will testify to that fact.
The final chapters then, ask the more important questions, pertaining to the theology and spirituality of Guadalupe, which in a final analysis are the only explanation to the cultural resilience of the tradition.
Brading has turned theologian and surprises his readers with a concluding interpretation that moves the debate definitely beyond history: "It is surely more theologically appropriate to presume that the Holy Spirit worked through a human agent, which is to say, through an Indian artist, possibly the painter." Drawing on contemporary theology, particularly Vatican II documents such as the "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation," he draws the argument over Guadalupe full circle. Like most religious events, there is more than just fact involved and a fuller understanding requires the tools of interpretation offered only in scholarship outside history.
The author brings us to the present. Guadalupe continues to exert a powerful influence on Mexican identity both within and outside Mexico, but is it possible that even as we debate the evolution of the tradition new dimensions are being added to it? New questions need to be raised in the face of globalization. The displacement of Mexican or even Hispanic identity from a religious axis to a more secular one needs to be addressed.What does it mean that national soccer games attract as many, and perhaps more fans, than Dec. 12th celebrations? Have we found a modern replacement for the exaltation of national pride? Is it time for our faith to translate itself yet another time, redefining the Guadalupe tradition for today's world? How is Guadalupe being brought into the life of new generations of Mexicans and Hispanics?
The tradition was certainly built on theological interpretation. Now it must look to present-day theologians to offer the interpretation that recharges Guadalupe with the meaning today's global reality demands.
Guadalupe: Historiography.......2001-11-07
According to Brading, the "purpose of this book is thus to illuminate the sudden efflorescence and the adamantine resilience of the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe." (11) The study, however, reads more like and intellectual historiography of Guadalupan ideas and controversies over the past five centuries.
The method of the book is essentially that of an intellectual history. Social historians will not enjoy this book as much as, say, theologians and those interested in literary critique and historiography. What makes this historiography interesting is that the author is able to incorporate the historiographical tendencies in the field while simultaneously inserting his own interpretation of the events. In other words, the theological and historical debates surrounding Guadalupe evolved in accordance with the social and political structures. In the end, the reader emerges not only with an understanding of the debates but also the author's analysis of the literature and its history.
By far, this is one the most enjoyable books that I have read on Guadalupe. Brading is fair and discusses the historical literature in context. Impressive research skills and highly readable! Highly recommended.
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Excellent Book.......2005-07-15
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John Haffert interviewed living eyewitnesses to the event which occured on October 13, 1917. This reprint contains additional pictures, updates, information, and insights to this world-changing event.
What witness would not believe in the Miracle?
Skeptical reporters were there, in force, to expose what they were sure was a fraud. Their unbiased reports amply demonstrate that they also believed: this was not mass hypnotism or religious hysteria. The Miracle was not reserved solely for the faithful—it was
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Originally published in Europe and America simultaneously, MEET THE WITNESSES is more than an exciting book. It brings to life what Paul Claudel described as "an explosion of the supernatural," and what the Jesuit scientist, Pio Sciatizzi, called "the most obvious and colossal miracle in history."
As a direct result of the Miracle, the character and government of an entire nation changed. Several key communists renounced Communism. Another direct result of the Miracle was a movement of prayer for the conversion of the atheistic leaders of Communism. Known as the Blue Army, it has grown to embrace over 22,000,000 people in 110 countries around the world. The great Shrine of Fatima, which has risen on the site of the Miracle, memorializes the astounding events of 1917, and has become the focal point for this movement of prayer and penance that is literally "the hope of the world."
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Faith as mesure of truth ?.......2007-09-03
The Fatima witnesses does not to have to be credited more than our modern "contactees" and extraterrestrial mythlogy: they have also a message and a transformative process. Why must we believe in the Fatima witnesses and reject the present "experiences" of close encounters? Are the religious criteria better than the our modern "alien experiences" witnesses? Of course not. Fatima phenomena show all the physical and psychological parameters and the same process of the present. Any believer must compare and study the real orginal Fatima reports reserached by Portuguese historians Dr. Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada in their Fatima books: "Celestial Secrets" and "Heavenly Lights" ( Anomalist Books, 2007 )
Outstanding Book.......2005-09-01
Anyone who doubts the existence of God should read this book. In fact, everyone should read this book. This book is about one of the least talked about modern miracles that is indisputable because of the multitude of witnesses who saw the event. As the title states, this book chronicles eye witness testimony of people who actually witnessed the miracle of the sun at Fatima. It is well written and you can't put it down. Anyone who has a true objective eye and a penchant for the truth will come to the only conclusion possible. That is, we are all under the power of an incredible God who truly loves us.
Emanuel
Meet the Witnesses makes atheists into Christians.......2000-08-12
"Meet the Witnesses" provides John Haffert's analysis and the testimony of credible eye-witnesses proving beyond a reasonable doubt that on October 13, 1917, outside Fatima, Portugal the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three children while over 75,000 people surrounding the children witnessed true miracles of God. It is the one book teenagers in my Catholic confirmation classes will read and insist that future students read. You will read testimony after testimony from people of all classes (from atheists to theology professor, from children to arrogant sceptical adults) relating how they witnessed the miracles and believed. The book compliments nicely the world's best-selling Fatima book, "Fatima the Full Story" by Italian priest and missionary Father John De Marchi. De Marchi and Haffert both started their on-site investigations in the 1940s when they were able to speak directly with many of the eye-witnesses. It was in trying to debunk a Fatima book that Douglas Hyde, one of England's great Communists and atheists, and the editor of The Daily Worker, came to believe that he was wrong, God does exist, and that He worked miracles in 1917 outside Fatima. The timeliness and analysis of these two books provide a "case for Christ's mother" that is more compelling than even "The Case for Christ", an excellent book by minister and former investigative reporter Lee Strobel. All three books are required reading in my classes.
Book Description
The most knowledgeable Fatima expert of our time analizes the Third Secret of Fatima. Finished shortly before his death, John Haffert speaks of the revelance of the current War on Terrorism, which began with the tragic events of September 11, 2002.
Customer Reviews:
Fiction and belief.......2006-04-27
Did the "most qualify Fatima expert of out times" even read the inteire archives and manuscripts at the sanctuary ? Of cours not.
How can maintain these authors such belifs stories without any consubstanciated and critical analysis of the documents? Did he knew the TRUE first description is the Lady made by Lucia dos Santos? Of course not! A faith work, very pious yes, but NOT History.
Don't waste your money.......2005-04-08
I love books. I love to keep my books. I rarely throw a book away. I am going to make an exception for this book. I bought this book because Fatima has always intrigued me. After Sister Lucy's death, I wanted to find a book to give me the true story about what happened at Fatima and especially about the third secret. The summary of this book also indicated that the subject matter was going to be looked at in the light of the 9/11 terrorist attack, which sounded interesting. However, this entire book has only one purpose and one repeated theme....to have Mary officially declared as Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate by the Roman Catholic Church. This one issue is repeated throughout the entire book, often in the exact same words in different chapters. The rest of the book is merely a wrapping for this incessant call for Mary to be declared Co-Redemptrix. Although the book repeatedly states that this does not put her "on par" with Jesus, it is difficult to see any distinction. I admit that I do not believe that Mary should be delared Co-Redemptrix, but I could have even put up with this viewpoint if the book had other redeeming value, such as providing interesting and detailed information about Fatima that is not obtainable by merely reading a copy of the secret contents. If there is such material, it was well hidden. The bottom line is that no matter what your view of Mary as Co-Redemptrix, this book has little to say and is written in a repetitive and uninteresting manner.
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