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Sorrowful Mysteries
Part memoir, part mystery: a powerful exploration of the three secrets of Fatima and a man’s journey grappling with his own faith
A “sober and engaging history-memoir . . . The mystery of the Fatima Letter, also known as the Third Part of the Secret, is the anguished heart of “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the hinge between Harrigan’s thoughtful (and appropriately skeptical) history of the alleged miracles and his own moving recollections about the terror he felt growing up in the double shadow of nuclear and theological apocalypse.”
—Robert P. Baird, The New York Times Book Review
"Harrigan looks to the story of the Fatima apparitions as a vehicle for telling his own tale of struggling with faith and especially with his Roman Catholic upbringing. . . . Well-researched and interesting. . . . A profound exploration of faith. . . " —Kirkus Reviews
“Harrigan uses the events of Fatima to paint a vivid portrait of Catholicism as an all-consuming faith that played on 20th-century anxieties with supernatural visions, apocalyptic imagery, and tales of eternal torment for sinners. Rendered in novelistic detail, this is a fascinating history of a mysterious event and its complicated legacy." —Publishers Weekly
“Well researched and beautifully written. . . Sure to fascinate both the faithful and skeptical alike." —Booklist
