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The Miracle Detective: An Investigative Reporter Sets Out to Examine How the Catholic Church Investigates Holy Visions and Discovers His Own Faith Paperback - 2005

by Randall Sullivan

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An examination of the longest-running Marian apparitions in history, and the author's own faith and beliefs as he himself becomes a miracle detective, are at the heart of Sullivan's stunning new book, "The Miracle Detective."

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In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the matter was officially placed "under investigation" by the Catholic diocese. Investigative journalist Randall Sullivan wanted to know how, exactly, one might conduct the official inquiry into such an incident, so he set off to interview theologians, historians, and postulators from the Sacred Congregation of the Causes for Saints. These men, dubbed "miracle detectives" by the author, were charged by the Vatican with testing the miraculous and judging the holy.

Sullivan traveled from the Vatican in Rome to the tiny village of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where six visionaries had been receiving apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Sullivan's quest turns personal and takes him to Scottsdale, Arizona, site of America's largest and most controversial instances of Virgin Mary sightings, culminating an eight-year investigation of predictions of apocalyptic events, false claims of revelation, and the search for a genuine theophany-that is, the ultimate interface between man and God.

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The first apparition had lasted twenty-four hours exactly and was witnessed by nearly one thousand people, most of them Mexican Americans, according to newspaper accounts of the event in northeastern Oregon.

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  • Title The Miracle Detective: An Investigative Reporter Sets Out to Examine How the Catholic Church Investigates Holy Visions and Discovers His Own Faith
  • Author Randall Sullivan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Unabridged Versi
  • Pages 450
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, New York
  • Publication date 2005-03-18
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780802141958 / 0802141951
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 6.02 x 1.25 in (22.73 x 15.29 x 3.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Event: First Communion
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Religion - Catholicism
  • Library of Congress subjects Miracles, Mary - Apparitions and miracles
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003063631
  • Dewey Decimal Code 232.917

About the author

Randall Sullivan is a contributing editor to both Rolling Stone and Men's Journal. He is the author of The Price of Experience and LAbyrinth: A detective investigates the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the implications of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal.

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