VT - Extraordinary, isn't it, that people who in the first place claim to have faith in God (or something else along that line) will react to anyone else's account of a direct encounter with the same thing by labelling it as "blashphemy"! If they believe in it at all, then why can't they believe in the possibility of someone else they know experiencing it?

That happened a lot in the past too. Many saints were at first condemend as "heretics" and often put to death merely for claiming to have had a religious experience, despite the fact that virtually everyone around them at the time believed that you could have a religious experience....they just apparently couldn't accept anyone else making a claim to having had one.

Joan of Arc suffered on that account, yet was later elevated to sainthood.

Sounds like jealousy to me (and superstitious fear of the unknown). Those darned priests and other authorities just couldn't bear someone else getting more recognition from whatever is sacred than they were getting themselves...specially if that someone else was from a humble social origin.

No one would have questioned such a vision if the Pope or the King had had it! ;-)