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One Message One Truth is a look at various Marian apparitions fully approved by the Catholic Church. Examined are the messages of the Blessed Virgin, the words of the visionaries, and also comments made by several popes about the events including Benedict XVI, John Paul II and Paul VI. "This is a well written, thought provoking, account of historically well-documented apparitions of Mary, the Mother of God." - Katherine

The illustrations of the Benedictine monk, artist, and chronicler Matthew Paris offer a gateway into the thirteenth-century world. This new study of his cartography emphasises the striking innovations he brought to it, and shows how the maps became an investment and repository of certain medieval spatial practices: travel through the world, the occurrence of history in that world, and the religious practices and devotional attitudes that were assiduously cultivated within the larger visual culture of St. Albans abbey (in great measure produced by Matthew's own images). Travel (i.e. space),...