The Secrets of Mary: Gifts from the Blessed Mother Book

Through the centuries, the Virgin Mary has appeared to ordinary people of every race and culture, bringing forth her messages of love, peace, and comfort. In these trying times, Mary’s protection is needed more than ever. In The Secrets of Mary, Janice T. Connell chronicles messages Mary has brought from God, drawn from scripture, experts, and eyewitness accounts. Mary’s voice provides a guiding light for modern times, as she explains how to solve problems that are surfacing throughout the world.

Janice T. Connell’s newest collection of stories includes:

• Saint Augustine’s discovery of Mary’s power

• Insight from the world-famous children of Medjugorje in Bosnia

• A famous Washington, D.C. media anchor’s touching encounter with the Blessed Mother

• The author’s own awe-inspiring experience with Mary in Japan

• And much more.

Filled with beauty, wonder, and joy, The Secrets of Mary provides comfort and inspiration to all those who desire Mary’s gifts.

Library Journal

Connell, the author of many prior books about Mary, here offers one that, but for the dates of the events and apparitions described, might have been written 100 years ago. A capable and persuasive writer, she takes the conservative and literalist Catholic line, moving swiftly away from the Mary of the Scriptures to the post-Scriptural Mother and comforter. Connell fervently embraces not only medieval and post-medieval Marian mysticism but 19th- through 21st-century apparitions. VERDICT While she may well disappoint readers of China Galland's Longing for Darkness: Black Madonna or Marina Warner's Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, she will please a now somewhat neglected constituency of traditional Catholic readers.