The Marian Era

The Marian Era

A serial by Carmelo Pistorio

Beginning on the Solemnity of the Assumption · 15 August 2026

The tilma of San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin bearing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe: the Virgin standing on a crescent moon, wrapped in a rayed golden mandorla, her mantle blue-green and strewn with stars, her hands joined in prayer, her expression serene, the four-petalled Nahui Ollin at her waist.
Our Lady of Guadalupe tilma of San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin · 12 December 1531 Basilica of Guadalupe · Mexico City

In the wake of my 60th birthday, and on the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, I am embarking on what is my most challenging project so far, and one which will hopefully prove to be the most important.

The Marian Era is a work of spiritual, philosophical, and historical argument. It reads modernity through the lens of the Blessed Virgin’s action in history, and argues — polemically, with the receipts — that every claim modernity makes for itself is Marian in genealogy.

The project begins on 15 August 2026, the Solemnity of the Assumption, and moves feast by feast through the year to come. The pilot manifesto is free to read. Most chapters will sit behind a small paywall; each will open in public.

Read the pilot manifesto → The Marian Era · a manifesto for the Feast of the Assumption Subscribe to the series → New instalments published fortnightly on Substack