Meetings with Mary: Visions of The Blessed Mother

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, author of Angel Power, 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.Often accompanied by miracles, blessings, ecstasies, and healings, Mary and her devotees offer the world a powerful invitation to prayer, forgiveness, hope, and love. Here, among others, are the celebrated apparitions of the Blessed Mother to the apostles in Jerusalem, St. Ignatius Loyola, and St. Teresa of Avila; those at Lourdes, Guadalupe, and Fatima; and the recent apocalyptic visions in Rwanda. Here also are lesser-known, often deeply touching, encounters with the Mother: peasant children...an office worker in Holland...a Japanese nun...a Jewish banker in Rome...an awe-struck crowd of visionaries, few of them Christians or of any other faith, in Egypt.Radiant, rejoicing, 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....