Visionaries

The spanish Republic and the reign of Christ Contents: Introduction; Mary, the Republic, and the Basques; Promoters and Seers; Suppression by Church and State; The proliferation of visions; Religious professionals; Kinds of seers and contact between social classes; The vision states; Sacred landscapes; Petitions from believers; The living and the dead; The end of the world; Aftermath; Questions without answers `William Christian shows clear-sighted discernment about the working of faith and the politics of the supernatural, but he never loses touch with the hunger and vulnerability of human beings in theri quet for the sacred. Visionaries is an astonishing book of profound research and human wisdom`.