THE BODY OF WORK
[28] Apparitions. One Mother. One Story.
For centuries, Mary has appeared to ordinary people: shepherd children, a poor miller’s daughter, a humble farmer. Through them, she has delivered messages of prayer, penance and hope to the world. Marian Apparitions brings those encounters to life in short dramatized episodes, faithful to the dates, places and people of the historical record.
Each series follows one apparition from beginning to end.
New episodes arrive every week, each under two minutes.
Lourdes
FRANCE · 1858
14 episodes · Thursdays
At the grotto of Massabielle, a fourteen-year-old girl sees a Lady dressed in white. Over eighteen apparitions, a spring rises from the earth, and on March 25 the Lady gives her name: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
Fatima
PORTUGAL · 1916–1917
15 episodes · Sundays
First an Angel, then the Lady over the holm oak. Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta face threats, prison and doubt, all the way to the Miracle of the Sun on October 13, 1917.
Zeitoun
EGYPT · 1968
15 episodes · Thursdays
On April 2, 1968, workers in Cairo see a luminous figure on the dome of St. Mary’s Coptic Church. For more than two years she returns, seen by Christians and Muslims alike.
Guadalupe
MEXICO · 1531
15 episodes · Sundays
On the hill of Tepeyac, Mary speaks to Juan Diego in his own language. The bishop asks for a sign: roses in December, and an image on a tilma that endures to this day.
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Barbara Oleynick
Marian Apparitions is created by Barbara Oleynick, author of Blessed Is Her Name, who holds an MFA in Writing Musical Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Barbara wrote and produced the musical Fatima and lived in Fatima, Portugal. Mary’s theme throughout the series comes from her original music.