Rosaries By Vivian - Apparition of the Virgin Mary

As a child I had no power to return myself after the camping trip to the Wildlife Refuge which was some 25 miles from my house. Was the Blessed Mother waiting for us to venture back that afternoon or perhaps the next day?

I had not realized this possibility until just a few years ago. I had wanted, as an adult to make a trip to that spot, but at that time I was battling the beginning of thyroid disease and pituitary problems that left me chronically fatigued and unable to take such a trip, even though it was less than 70 miles than where I currently live.

Throughout my life, since then, I have tried to make sense of the experience. I also learned from all of my fascination and personal studies of apparition, that at that time in history, 1968, the Virgin Mary was appearing regularly to millions in Zeitun, Egypt.

Was her appearance to me and my companion anything to do with her appearance to those throngs in Egypt? Or was her appearance just as a hello blessing to 2 young girls at a make-shift shrine in an isolated area?

Or, was her appearance in anyway as a message or warning about the nuclear power plant under construction???

Or was her appearance to encourage me to become her handmaiden, as I have as an adult, where I have succeeded in creating several online web-businesses that sell rosaries, and promote the rosary prayer, and sell Catholic goods?

Of course I do not know, but having been born on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary myself, August 15th, coupled with that sighting, I have often wondered if that apparition was to push me to choose selling rosaries as a way of making a living?

I can probably say that this apparition did have some influence in my wanting to become a nun when I was 13 years of age, but even then early