Apparitions are in. It’s official. Martin Shaw is to star as an exorcist in the BBC One programme Apparitions, a drama devoted to supernatural phenomena to be broadcast on November 13.
For the religious believer, apparitions of the Marian variety have proved a hot topic this autumn, in places as geographically diverse as Baltimore and Bosnia. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore has asked Gianna Tallone-Sullivan, the alleged recipient of regular and apparently apocalyptic messages from the Virgin Mary, to stop publicising their content. In Bosnia, the controversial apparitions of Medjugorje, the remote Balkan village where it is alleged that the Virgin Mary has appeared daily since 1981, resurfaced with the news that the Vatican had disciplined for sexual misbehaviour a Franciscan who was once mentor to the shrine’s six seers.
Apparitions, however, are not just a topic for Roman Catholics: for the first time in history a leader of the Anglican Communion, Dr Rowan Williams, went on public pilgrimage recently to Lourdes, the French Pyrenean shrine where, according to the Roman Church, the Virgin Mary appeared on 18 occasions in 1858.
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(London) Times: Marian miracles plunge Christians into a ferment
Apparitions are in. It’s official. Martin Shaw is to star as an exorcist in the BBC One programme Apparitions, a drama devoted to supernatural phenomena to be broadcast on November 13.
For the religious believer, apparitions of the Marian variety have proved a hot topic this autumn, in places as geographically diverse as Baltimore and Bosnia. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore has asked Gianna Tallone-Sullivan, the alleged recipient of regular and apparently apocalyptic messages from the Virgin Mary, to stop publicising their content. In Bosnia, the controversial apparitions of Medjugorje, the remote Balkan village where it is alleged that the Virgin Mary has appeared daily since 1981, resurfaced with the news that the Vatican had disciplined for sexual misbehaviour a Franciscan who was once mentor to the shrine’s six seers.
Apparitions, however, are not just a topic for Roman Catholics: for the first time in history a leader of the Anglican Communion, Dr Rowan Williams, went on public pilgrimage recently to Lourdes, the French Pyrenean shrine where, according to the Roman Church, the Virgin Mary appeared on 18 occasions in 1858.
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