The circuit of the marian apparitions

Abstract

In this presentation, we intend to analyze some manifestations of Our Lady called extraordinary - apparitions, phrases and miraculous images - from the circulation of actors and groups among Marian phenomena, capturing the regularities of this circulation - the networks or circuits. For that, we started from the analysis of three cases - the apparitions of the Virgin in Jacareí, the cenacles of the MSM and the pilgrimage of the Virgin of Honey - describing the scenarios and the actors to, then, understand the circuits established by them. We note the recurrence of manifestations today and, despite being a very old phenomenon within the scope of Catholicism, it acquires new characteristics, which bring them closer to postmodernity - especially the deterritorialization of apparitions and the volatility of the sacralization of space.