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Article: Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: local visions and cosmic drama.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- March 1, 2000
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APOLITO, PAOLO. Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: local visions and cosmic drama; translated by William A. Christian Jr. xii, 267 pp., bibliogr. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. $49.50
In May 1985 the Virgin Mary began appearing to people in the southern Italian town of Oliveto Citra. First to see her were some local children -- not the most devout, as some townspeople commented with irony. Subsequently numbers of other local people and pilgrims also saw and spoke to her. Paolo Apolito, an anthropologist at the University of Salerno, conducted fieldwork at the site from the earliest days of the apparitions and was thus ...