Virgin Mary True Stories (Catholic Archives)

Product Description The Catholic tradition has in its collective memory many stories of the kindness and intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary throughout history. Some of the most amazing of these stories have been collected in the present volume. You will be astonished and enlightened as to God's immense, loving care in ages of faith.Written at time when rebellion was in the ascendency, (which has poisoned most of society up to our present day) the author mined Catholic manuscripts and books for authentic treasures that demonstrate the great tenderness, beauty, and salvific power to be experienced by those with hearts open to the mysteries of Christ. About the Author J. Collin de Plancy was born in France in 1793. He became a freethinker influenced by Voltaire. He was a printer-librarian in Plancy and Paris. In 1839, in Holland, he founded The Hague Society of Fine Arts. It was during his stay in the Netherlands that he was reconciled with God and the Catholic faith. In 1841, he made his conversion public, declaring that he condemned and trampled underfoot all that he had written against faith and morals. All his works would henceforth display ecclesiastical approval. His most important work is considered the Dictionnaire Infernal, in which he gathered all the knowledge of the time concerning superstitions and demonology. It underwent six editions while Plancy was alive. The first edition was published in 1818; the third edition, published in 1844, was re-worked to be in accordance with the Church, and features the approbation of the Archbishop of Paris.