Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500–1960

Addresses the relation of people to divine personalities in contemporary and historical communities, as exemplified in visions of mysterious wayfarers in rural Spain, the seeming vivification of religious images - pictures, statues and other objects - in Spanish homes and churches throughout Europe to express divine-human relations.

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A few selected cases of visions and apparitions are detected and analyzed, including personal interviews with some of the witnesses. Of special interest is the final third of the book: the transposition of medieval and early modern representations of the relations between humans and the divine into the modern art of photography. Christian presents a pictorial examination of the phenomenon, commenting a large number of images, including commercial postcards and family photographs from the first half of past century Europe.