Marian Apparitions, the Bible and the Modern World
, by Foley, Donal AnthonyNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780852443132 | 0852443137
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/30/2002
Acknowledgements | |
List of Illustrations | |
Foreword | |
Preface | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Guadalupe and the Conquest of Mexico | p. 7 |
The Return of Quetzalcoatl | p. 7 |
Spain and the Conquest of Mexico | p. 8 |
Guadalupe: the Apparitions at Tepeyac | p. 11 |
The Miraculous Image of Guadalupe | p. 14 |
Typology of Mary as the New Eve | p. 17 |
Historical Accounts of Guadalupe | p. 23 |
Modern Science and the Guadalupe Image | p. 25 |
Guadalupe and Mexico | p. 27 |
Church History and the Protestant Revolution | p. 30 |
Church History and the Growth of Christendom | p. 30 |
The Decline of Christendom | p. 34 |
The Protestant Revolution | p. 37 |
Luther and the Reformation | p. 40 |
Protestant Progress and Catholic Reform | p. 44 |
The Consolidation of the Reformation | p. 44 |
The Reformation in England | p. 45 |
Calvin and Protestantism | p. 46 |
Catholic Reform, the Jesuits, and the Council of Trent | p. 47 |
Trent, the Role of Mary, and the Battle of Lepanto | p. 49 |
The Catholic Reformation and Marian Apparitions | p. 51 |
The Reformation and Secularization | p. 53 |
Britain Becomes Protestant | p. 53 |
The Secularization of Western Culture | p. 55 |
The Decline of the Monarchy | p. 60 |
Catholicism, Capitalism and Secular Culture | p. 62 |
The Intellectual Revolution | p. 64 |
Europe after the Reformation | p. 66 |
Devotions to Jesus and Mary | p. 68 |
Devotion to the Sacred Heart | p. 68 |
Devotion to Mary's Immaculate Heart | p. 71 |
St. Louis de Montfort | p. 72 |
The Enlightenment | p. 75 |
Rationalism and Secularization | p. 75 |
Deism and Philosophy | p. 77 |
Freemasonry and the Enlightenment | p. 79 |
Wesley and Protestant Culture | p. 83 |
Europe on the Brink of Revolution | p. 84 |
The French Revolution | p. 87 |
French Society before the Revolution | p. 87 |
The Revolt against the "Ancien Regime" | p. 89 |
Napoleon and the Church | p. 94 |
The Results of the Revolution | p. 95 |
Private Revelations, Typology, and the Church | p. 99 |
The Nature of Private Revelations | p. 99 |
Church Approval of Marian Apparitions | p. 104 |
Biblical Typology and Mary | p. 106 |
Mary as the Ark of the Covenant | p. 110 |
Catherine Laboure and the Miraculous Medal | p. 113 |
Catherine Laboure before the Apparitions | p. 113 |
The First Apparition - July 1830 | p. 115 |
Second and Third Apparitions | p. 117 |
Jacob's Ladder and the Church Fathers | p. 121 |
Catherine Laboure and Jacob's Ladder | p. 122 |
Joseph in Egypt and Mary's Mediation | p. 124 |
Our Lady of Victories - 1836 | p. 127 |
The Miraculous Medal and Alphonse Ratisbonne | p. 129 |
La Salette and the 1848 Revolution | p. 131 |
The Church, Industrialization, and New Philosophies | p. 131 |
La Salette Apparition - September 1846 | p. 134 |
The Message of the Lady | p. 136 |
Aftermath of the Apparition | p. 139 |
The Cure d'Ars, the Pope, and the Secrets | p. 141 |
Criticism of La Salette and the Children | p. 144 |
La Salette and Moses on Mount Sinai | p. 146 |
The Revolution of 1848 and its Results | p. 150 |
The Immaculate Conception and Lourdes | p. 153 |
The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception | p. 153 |
Problems for the Church | p. 155 |
Bernadette and Lourdes - 1858 | p. 156 |
More Apparitions and the Miraculous Spring | p. 159 |
"I am the Immaculate Conception" | p. 164 |
Biblical Typology, Bernadette, and Lourdes | p. 167 |
Lourdes, Evolution, Marxism, and Vatican I | p. 171 |
Criticism of nineteenth-century French Apparitions | p. 171 |
Darwin, Evolution and Lourdes | p. 173 |
The Darwinian Revolution | p. 176 |
The Rise of Marxism | p. 178 |
Pius IX and the Church | p. 179 |
Vatican I and Papal Infallibility | p. 182 |
Bismarck's Kulturkampf | p. 184 |
Pontmain, Pompeii, and Knock | p. 187 |
Pontmain Apparition - January 1871 | p. 187 |
Criticism of Pontmain | p. 190 |
The Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle | p. 192 |
A "Triptych" of Marian Apparitions | p. 196 |
Catherine Laboure's Last Years and Death | p. 198 |
The Miraculous Picture of Pompeii | p. 200 |
The Apparition at Knock | p. 203 |
The Symbolism of the Figures at Knock | p. 207 |
Investigating the Apparition | p. 209 |
Mary as the Ark of the Covenant | p. 212 |
Social Revolution, World War, and Communism | p. 215 |
The nineteenth-century Assault on the Church | p. 215 |
The Social Revolution and the Church | p. 217 |
"Church and State" before World War I | p. 220 |
World War I and the Rise of Communism | p. 222 |
The Communist Revolution | p. 227 |
The Apparitions at Fatima | p. 231 |
The Angel of Portugal and Fatima | p. 231 |
The First Apparition - May 1917 | p. 234 |
The Second Apparition - June 1917 | p. 236 |
The Third Apparition - July 1917 | p. 238 |
The Fourth Apparition - August 1917 | p. 241 |
The Fifth Apparition - September 1917 | p. 243 |
13 October 1917 - the Miracle of the Sun | p. 245 |
After the Apparitions | p. 250 |
Fatima: Typology and Criticism | p. 253 |
Fatima and the Typology of the Story of Elijah | p. 253 |
Elijah on Mount Carmel | p. 254 |
The Sun at Fatima: a Meteorological Miracle? | p. 257 |
Other Modern Critics of Fatima | p. 261 |
Protestant Evangelical Criticism of Fatima | p. 264 |
The World between the Wars | p. 268 |
The Postwar World and the Church | p. 268 |
Later Apparitions to Sr. Lucia | p. 270 |
The Twenties and Thirties | p. 273 |
The Apparitions at Beauraing and Banneux - 1932-33 | p. 277 |
Beauraing: November 1932-January 1933 | p. 277 |
Criticisms of Beauraing | p. 282 |
The Eastern Gate and Beauraing | p. 284 |
The Church and Beauraing | p. 287 |
Banneux: January-March 1933 | p. 289 |
The Temple Stream and Banneux | p. 293 |
Beauraing, Banneux, and Nazism | p. 296 |
The Second World War | p. 299 |
The Rise of Totalitarianism | p. 299 |
The Application of Darwinism | p. 301 |
The Road to War | p. 303 |
Sr. Lucia's Mission Continues | p. 304 |
Sr. Faustina and the Divine Mercy Devotion | p. 307 |
The Start of World War II | p. 310 |
Sr. Lucia and the Consecration of 1942 | p. 312 |
The Course of the War | p. 315 |
Postwar Politics | p. 317 |
Tre Fontane, L'Ile Bouchard, and the Assumption Dogma | p. 320 |
Tre Fontane: 12 April 1947 | p. 320 |
L'Ile Bouchard: 8-14 December 1947 | p. 324 |
The Typology of Tre Fontane and L'Ile Bouchard | p. 333 |
L'Ile Bouchard and Daniel's Dream | p. 336 |
L'Ile Bouchard: the Final Apparition? | p. 339 |
The Church, Tre Fontane, and L'Ile Bouchard | p. 341 |
The Dogma of the Assumption | p. 342 |
The Weeping Madonna of Syracuse | p. 344 |
The Collegial Consecration and the Fall of Communism | p. 347 |
Further Consecrations to Mary | p. 347 |
The Third Part of the Secret: Criticism of Sr. Lucia | p. 347 |
Pope John Paul II and the Consecration of 1984 | p. 350 |
The Validity of the Consecration | p. 352 |
The Continuing Threat from Communism | p. 356 |
The Collapse of Communism | p. 360 |
The Beatifications and the Third Part of the Secret | p. 362 |
Church and World: the Future? | p. 366 |
Conclusion | p. 370 |
Further Reading | p. 375 |
Notes | p. 377 |
Bibliography | p. 416 |
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