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Special University studies: Sociology, Ethnology, Anthropology, History.

* Of interest to people who want to research the phenomenology of Apparitions (Theophanies).

In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two chidren reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundred of seerswere attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightlyspectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience and the larger meaning of this waveof sightings of Mary and the saints which began shorlty after Spainbecame a republic and anticlerical mobs burned religious houses inseveral cities. Before repression from the governement and condemnationfrom Vatican finally drove the visionnaries into secrecy, more than amillion people had visited the original apparition site at Ezkioga.

William A. Christianwrites about two kinds of visionaries and their relation to each other: the seers who had visions of Mary and the saints, and the believers who had a vision for the future which they hoped Mary and the saints would confirm. Together, these visionaries attempted to convince a skepticalworld that heavenly beings were appearing on the Iberian peninsula.Nuns and priests, writers and photographers, military officers and civilservants, housemaids and aristocrats (...), and many children incited opposition to the Republic, converted politicians, distributed grace, connected the living with the dead, and announced the apocalypse andthe reign of Christ.

W A. Christian immersed himself in thelife of these visionaries, retracing their steps and recreating their world. He spoke with hundredsof witnesses, who led him to caches of vision messages, diaries, clandestine publications,  and eloquent photographs.