Father Rene Laurentin was at today's press conference. The dictionary lists more than 2,400 claims of people who over the centuries have claimed to have seen Mary.
By Sarah Delaney
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A newly expanded compendium of visions of the Virgin Mary shows how the very idea of such apparitions has been met with skepticism and preoccupation within the church, from early Christian times to the present.
Experts in Mariology presented the Italian edition of the Dictionary of "Apparitions" of the Virgin Mary, translated from the original 2007 French publication with the addition of some 150 new entries, at a news conference near St. Peter's Square Dec. 13.
Read this news report here: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1005079.htm
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