What the children saw
Marina Warner, 7 April 1994
Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany
by David Blackhourn.
Oxford, 463 pp., £40, December 1993,0 19 821783 8 Show More
by David Blackhourn.
Oxford, 463 pp., £40, December 1993,
“... the face of the Madonna looking very like the pictures Raphael or Perugino painted of her. David Blackhourn has produced an exhaustive study of the apparitions of the Madonna in July 1876 in Marpingen, and the turbulent aftermath which embroiled the Army, the Berlin secret police, and the Prussian Parliament. An obscure village of around 1600 ... ”
