Marpingen : apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany

Abstract

Part 1 The background: apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 19th-century Europe - women and children, visions for troubled times, apparitions and politics, the role of the Church the place - changing village in the Saarland - peasants and miners, borderlands, religious revival the time - economic crisis and political repression in the 1870s - the great depression, the kulturkampf, the hope of deliverance. Part 2 The apparitions: the visionaries and their world - the visionaries, one big lie, villagers and the apparitions pilgrims, cures and commercialization the reaction of the clergy - for and against, the dangers of popular religion, the parish priest the apparitions and state repression - soldiers, magistrates and the Irishman, policing the village, Mettenbuch - Bavarian comparison, the weaknesses of the Prussian state the Catholic response - active and passive resistance, the law, the press and politics progress and piety - liberal hostility - superstition versus civilization, science, mob-masses and hysterical women, liberals, Marpingen and the state. Part 3 The aftermath: the state climbs down - legal reverses, Marpingen in Parliament, the trial the Church stays silent - textbook enquiry - Mettenbuch, problems in Trier, secretum the German Lourdres? - Margingen in the 20th century - renewed interest, a true apparition mania - the 1930s, wax and wane - the postwar years.

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