Apparitions Of The Virgin Mary: Fatima & Garabandal
This four-week seminar, taught by D. W. Pasulka and Christopher Moreland, with a presentation by Mark Burchick, examines two of the most consequential modern Marian apparition traditions—Fátima (Portugal, 1917) and Garabandal (Spain, 1961–1965)—through a historical, religious-studies lens. Students engage primary sources (memoirs, episcopal statements, press accounts, Vatican documents), scholarly analyses, and selected documentaries. We will outline Catholic discernment procedures for alleged supernatural phenomena and attention is also given to the impact of these cases beyond Catholic communities—how they shape wider cultural beliefs about visions, prophecy, and the miraculous.
Course•By Diana Heath
