STEPHEN HARRIGAN’S SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

10:00 am - 10:45 am
| Location of Session: Texas Monthly Tent
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 11:00 am
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Acclaimed Texas author Stephen Harrigan writes a part memoir, part history in Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century. In 1917, three shepherd children in Fatima claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared before them and spoke the words, “Do not be afraid.” Harrigan explores what actually happened in Fatima in the early part of the twentieth century – and how it both shaped the world and his own personal faith.

About the Author

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Stephen Harrigan

Stephen Harrigan is the author of the New York Times-bestselling The Gates of the Alamo, Remember Ben Clayton (which, among other awards, won the Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction), Challenger Park, A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas, and The Leopard Is Loose. He is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, as well as a screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives in Austin, Texas, and his latest book is Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century.

Moderator

Sandi Villarreal

Sandi Villarreal is an executive editor at Texas Monthly, where she oversees news, politics, business, energy, and religion coverage. She previously served as editor-in-chief at Sojourners magazine, which covers the intersection of faith, politics, and culture, in Washington, D.C. Sandi is a fifth-generation San Antonian and currently resides here with her husband and three young kids.