TALK: The Eyes of the Beholders: Spanish and Central European Visions of the Christ of Limpias, 1919-1936
William A. Christian, Jr.
Monday, April 28 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Starting in 1919, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims went to the parish church of Limpias, in northern Spain, where it was said that the crucifix could be see to move. On the order of one in fifteen pilgrims said they saw it come to life in some way. Based on their written testimony, one can examine what kinds of people reported what kinds of movement, and how the visions as a whole evolved over time.
William A. Christian Jr. is an independent scholar who writes about Catholicism in Spain and Southern Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, combining archival research with anthropological fieldwork. His most recent book is Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ.
Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and the IHC’s Catholic Studies RFG
