Marpingen
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Marpingen is a village and a municipality in the district of Sankt Wendel , in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approx. 8 km west of Sankt Wendel, and 25 km north of Saarbrücken.
In 1876, at the height of the Kulturkampf, Marpingen was claimed to be the site of an apparition of the Virgin Mary, leading to a major conflict between the Prussian Government and the believers who flocked to Marpingen as a result.
[edit] References
- Blackbourn, David (1994). Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany. New York: Alfred A Knopf. ISBN 0-67-941843-1.
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