Visions of the Virgin Mary stand at the origin of many cult sites. At times they have led to impressive pilgrimage centres such as Lourdes in France, Fatima in Portugal, or Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but elsewhere they were remembered only in local chapels or by small groups of devotees. This raises the question as to what conditions are necessary for a vision to lead to a sacralisation of space. Historians and social scientists have usually focussed on the famous cult sites when researching the various processes that influenced the physicalization and development of a sacred site, while neglecting to pay attention to lesser known visions and sites. In this article the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Sister Marie Alphonsine in 1874-...
This thesis examines the phenomenon of the Fatima (Portugal) pilgrimage as an "arena for different d...
This article charts, through the longue durée, two contested constructions of the Virgin Mary, the o...
Art historical research often assumes that sculptures of the Virgin Mary originally stood on the nor...
Visions of the Virgin Mary stand at the origin of many cult sites. At times they have led to impress...
Apparition phenomena, particularly those that claim Mary as their object, are still very influentia...
Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees, has been a pilgrimage site since 1858. At present, about six millio...
The local Christian community had long held the Turkish site known today as Mary’s House (Meryem Ana...
Late nineteenth-century France is a place of renewed religious fervor, particularly around the mirac...
Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees, has been a pilgrimage site since 1858. At present, about six millio...
In the context of modern Roman Catholicism, Marian apparitions are usually traced to that received b...
In the centennial of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, this chapter analyzes the religious touri...
International audienceOn the 21st of August 2004, Bechouate, a Maronite village of Lebanon witnessed...
Abstract: The article describes the evolution of ecclesiastical discourse about female religiosity f...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss different aspects of the miraculous depictions of the Virgin...
The present paper discusses materials collected and analysed in the frame of a research project coor...
This thesis examines the phenomenon of the Fatima (Portugal) pilgrimage as an "arena for different d...
This article charts, through the longue durée, two contested constructions of the Virgin Mary, the o...
Art historical research often assumes that sculptures of the Virgin Mary originally stood on the nor...
Visions of the Virgin Mary stand at the origin of many cult sites. At times they have led to impress...
Apparition phenomena, particularly those that claim Mary as their object, are still very influentia...
Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees, has been a pilgrimage site since 1858. At present, about six millio...
The local Christian community had long held the Turkish site known today as Mary’s House (Meryem Ana...
Late nineteenth-century France is a place of renewed religious fervor, particularly around the mirac...
Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees, has been a pilgrimage site since 1858. At present, about six millio...
In the context of modern Roman Catholicism, Marian apparitions are usually traced to that received b...
In the centennial of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, this chapter analyzes the religious touri...
International audienceOn the 21st of August 2004, Bechouate, a Maronite village of Lebanon witnessed...
Abstract: The article describes the evolution of ecclesiastical discourse about female religiosity f...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss different aspects of the miraculous depictions of the Virgin...
The present paper discusses materials collected and analysed in the frame of a research project coor...
This thesis examines the phenomenon of the Fatima (Portugal) pilgrimage as an "arena for different d...
This article charts, through the longue durée, two contested constructions of the Virgin Mary, the o...
Art historical research often assumes that sculptures of the Virgin Mary originally stood on the nor...