NYT

Betcha didn't know there was a Specialty Occupation of this description, deciding.. say..

Mental problems? ... Ineffable Vetted? ... Ineffable maybe; iffy or insufficient corroboration? however you Do that.

The Rev. René Laurentin, a prominent Roman Catholic theologian who devoted his career to investigating reports of supernatural religious visions, died on Sunday in Evry, a suburb of Paris. He was 99.

His death was announced by the Catholic Church in France.

Often compared to the French philosophers Henri-Louis Bergson and Jacques Maritain, Father Laurentin was one of the world’s foremost students of Mariology, the theological exploration of the Virgin Mary; an expert on historic religious apparitions; and an investigator of celestial sightings reported everywhere from a hill in the Balkans to a Texas backyard.

The author of more than 150 books, he wrote six volumes on Our Lady of Lourdes alone, perhaps the world’s best known account of a Virgin Mary apparition.

In that episode, in the French town of Lourdes in the mid-19th century, a miller’s daughter, Bernadette Soubirous, reported that a woman who later identified herself as the Virgin Mary had appeared to her. After a church investigation, the girl’s account, detailing multiple encounters with the apparition, was deemed authentic and Lourdes became a shrine. Bernadette was canonized in 1933. Father Laurentin concurred in the vision’s authenticity.

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'Course for those who have Decided that it's just a clockwork [Puce, maybe?] universe overseen by St. Boole and there Can't Be
... any parallel-ones-for-amusement and other things, this could be moved --> Oh Pun. Right?

Bon Appetít

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