{"product_id":"sorrowful-mysteries-the-shepherd-children-of-fatima-and-the-fate-of-the-twentieth-century-hardcover","title":"Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Harrigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart memoir, part mystery: a powerful exploration of the three secrets of Fatima and a man's journey grappling with his own faith\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1917, in Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared before them and spoke the words, \"Do not be afraid.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen Harrigan first heard the story of Our Lady of Fatima when he was a young boy attending a Catholic school in Texas in the 1950s, struggling to come to grips with a religion that simultaneously soothed and terrified him. The question of what actually happened in Fatima in the early part of the twentieth century, one of the most important, and most mysterious, events in the church's history, captured his young imagination and has stayed with him ever since. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSorrowful Mysteries\u003c\/i\u003e is a detailed and extraordinarily compassionate examination of the phenomenon of Our Lady of Fatima, an attempt to unravel and put into perspective the lives of the three children, how this life-altering event changed them and the world they knew, and how it intersected with so many of the signal moments of the twentieth century--pandemics, revolutions, world wars, assassinations, and even skyjackings. It is a sweeping story, but also at its heart a very personal one, about Harrigan's own relationship with Catholicism and his lifelong struggle to break free from a religion that in so many paradoxical ways shaped and defined him.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTEPHEN HARRIGAN is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of the Alamo, Remember Ben Clayton\u003c\/i\u003e (which, among other awards, won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians for best historical novel), \u003ci\u003eChallenger Park, A Friend of Mr. Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBig Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard Is Loose\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a writer at large for \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as a screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives in Austin, TX.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.44 x 6.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966541725997,"sku":"9780593534281","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/cTaNT7W3yA9780593534281.webp?v=1775534476","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/sorrowful-mysteries-the-shepherd-children-of-fatima-and-the-fate-of-the-twentieth-century-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}