Blessed is Her Name is a prose adaptation of an “inspired” screenplay written by Barbara Oleynick in 2000. It is based on the spiritual writings of Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, a devout Franciscan nun from Agreda, Spain, commonly known as Maria de Ágreda (1602– 1665). Born into a family dedicated to God, her mother and she entered the convent of The Immaculate Conception in January 1619 while her father and two brothers became Franciscan friars - she was unexpectedly made Abbess at twenty-five by papal dispensation. Dying with a reputation for sanctity, her cause for canonization was introduced just seven years later, on June 21, 1672, by the Congregation of Rites at the Court of Spain. Her lasting prominence stems not merely from her holy life but from her work “The Mystical City of God”. Conceived in 1627, nine years after joining the convent, it was initiated at her confessor’s command and the first 400 pages were produced in only twenty days. Although she initially sought to suppress its publication, a copy was sent to Philip IV - who had long expressed interest in it. Later, following another confessor’s instruction, she burned all her writings, only to restart the work in 1655 and complete it by 1660; it was printed posthumously in Madrid in 1670. Claiming to record divine revelations, The Mystical City of God details the mysteries of the Divine Life and Death of the Virgin Mary, celebrated as Mother of Humanity and Queen of  Heaven. Originally a 4000-page Spanish text divided into four volumes, it was later translated into German in 1885 by the Redemptorist Fathers. Inspired by the German edition, Chicago priest Father George J. Blatter learned Spanish to produce an English translation, first published in 1912. In September of 1999, Barbara began work-shopping her thesis from NYU a musical called The Miracle of Fatima. While visiting a local Catholic book store she experienced a serendipitous encounter when The Mystical City of God literally fell off a bookstore shelf onto her foot. Struck by the work, she read it throughout the year, often rereading chapters of the 1000-page tome. She began writing a screenplay, something she had never done before on December 8, 2000, and finishing on December 25th. This new narrative adaptation of that screenplay brings the history and divine life of the Virgin Mother of God to a wider audience. For the time has come for Her to Triumph.