Title: Pontmain, prophecy, and protest : a cultural-historical study of a nineteenth-century apparition /
Authors: Porte, Cheryl A.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Mary, Apparitions and miracles France Pontmain.; Pontmain (France) Religious life and customs.
Contents: The apparitional drama -- The nature of an apparition -- Marian apparitions and the church -- Pontmain will rise again -- Geographical location -- Rural economy -- Catholic religion -- The identity of Pontmain -- For God and country -- Growth of nationalism -- War with Germany -- Mary versus Marianne -- Support of the monarchy -- Anticlericalism -- The icon of the apparition -- Religious realities -- Characteristics -- Studies of apparitions.