Volume 43, Number 19 · November 28, 1996
Homage from Catalonia
By Raymond Carr
Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ
by William A. Christian Jr.
University of California Press, 544 pp., $39.95
On June 29, 1931, two children saw, on the hillside of Ezkioga, a village in the Basque provinces of northeastern Spain, a vision of the Virgin Mary. By the end of 1931, an estimated one million people had come to Ezkioga to listen to the accounts of the two children, and those of about one hundred other 'seers,' some of them young adults from the Ezkioga region, who had also had visions of the Virgin as well as of other saints.
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