Interesting Article on Marian Apparitions:

 

Biblical Evidence (Direct Analogies) for Marian Apparitions

 

 

Transfiguration, by Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, 16th century

By analogy, biblical accounts of "appearances" of those who have died, are of the same essential nature as a Marian apparition. Angels (i.e., also creatures like men) might also be included in such a survey, but stories of angels are relatively well-known, and for the sake of closer analogy and brevity, I have selected only passages with men or the appearance of men. Several of these passages involve foretelling of the future, in a manner not unlike that of the apparitions at Fatima in 1917. And several actual historical figures are named as appearing after death (Samuel, Onias, Jeremiah, Moses, and Elijah). All passages are RSV.

Read this article here:

 

http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2011/02/biblical-evidence-direct-analogies-for.html

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