Meetings with Mary Visions of the Blessed Mother

by CONNELL, JANICE T.

• ISBN13: 9780345397058
• ISBN10: 0345397053
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780804181051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-29
• Publisher: Ballantine Books

Summary

Through the centuries and across the world, the Virgin Mary has appeared to ordinary people of every race and culture, from scholars to illiterates, from the devout to the unbelieving, from young children to the dying. In this exquisite and inspiring volume, Janice T. Connell chronicles authenticated Marian apparitions and messages Mary has brought from God--as mother, comforter, Queen of Angels, and Prophet of the Apocalypse. Drawn from scripture, legend, and never-before-published eyewitness accounts, these are personal stories--the author's own, and her interviews with other visionaries--filled with beauty, wonder, and joy. Meetings with Mary ranges from Elijah's vision of Mary eight hundred years before her birth to the world-famous children of Medjugorje in Bosnia, whose encounters with her began in 1981 and continue daily. Here also are lesser-known, deeply touching encounters with the Mother, from an office worker in Holland to a Japanese nun, from a Jewish banker in Rome to an awestruck crowd of visionaries, few of them Christians or of any other faith, in Egypt. Meetings with Mary asks also: as the millennium draws near, shadowed by disasters, disease, and brutal civil warfare, are Mary's frequent appearances a signal to the faithful? Perhaps she is calling us all to join her now on a voyage toward the eternal shores of peace, joy, and abiding love. . . . "[Connell is] passionate about prayer and sharing her love of Jesus' mother. . . . She has a way of simplifying complex theology." --Rocky Mountain News

Author Biography

Janice T. Connell acts as a consultant to clearinghouses for Marian information throughout the world. She is the host of a nationally syndicated radio program called The Power of Love and the founder of the Pittsburgh Center for Peace (a Marian organization) and the international Queen of Peace newsletter. Connell is also a practicing attorney in ethics and international law. She lives in Florida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Foreword
Prologue
Holy Mary, Mother of God	p. 1
Queen of Heaven and Earth	p. 3
Queen of All Saints	p. 30
Mother of Divine Grace	p. 48
Seat of Wisdom	p. 67
Cause of Our Joy	p. 87
Comforter of the Afflicted	p. 89
Gate of Heaven	p. 119
Queen of the Holy Rosary	p. 147
Mother Most Admirable	p. 179
Mother Most Faithful	p. 197
Queen of Peace	p. 202
Mother of the Word	p. 234
Mother of Good Counsel	p. 258
Mother of the Church	p. 281
Queen of Angels	p. 283
Thirteen: Victorious Queen	p. 316
Mother of Divine Mercy	p. 331
Epilogue	p. 349
Endnotes	p. 351
Selected Bibliography	p. 371
Permissions Acknowledgments	p. 385
Picture Credits	p. 386
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