Encountering Mary: From La Salette to MedjugorjeIn the past two centuries hundreds of apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been reported, drawing crowds to the seers and the sites and constituting events of great religious significance for millions of people worldwide. Here Sandra Zimdars Swartz provides a detective like investigation of the experiences and interpretations of six major apparitions, including those at La Salette and Lourdes in France during the mid nineteenth century; at Fatima,