Books, films and videos about the Rosary and the Virgin Mary

A library to know and love Our Mother more

Here we gather recommendations of books, Church documents, films, documentaries and videos that help to discover the richness of the Holy Rosary and the figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary. An invitation to pray, learn and be accompanied by the Mother of God.

Church documents on the Rosary and Mary

• Rosarium Virus Mariae — San John Paul II (2002)
  Apostolic Letter which proposed the luminous mysteries and presented the Rosary as "contemplative prayer" of the face of Christ with the eyes of Mary. Essential reading.
• Ms Marialis Cultus — San Paul VI (1974)
  Exhortation on the veneration of the Virgin, with beautiful pages on the evangelical sense of the Rosary.
• Redemptoris Mater — San John Paul II (1987)
  Encyclical about the Virgin Mary in the life of the pilgrim Church.
• Ingruentium malorum - Pius XII (1951)
  Encyclical letter on the prayer of the Rosary in the family.

Books about the Rosary and the Virgin Mary

• The admirable secret of the Most Holy Rosary - San Luis María Grignion de Montfort
  The great classic about the power and method of the Rosary, full of fervor and building stories.
• Treaty of true devotion to the Blessed Virgin - San Luis María Grignion de Montfort
  The top work of the consecration to Jesus by Mary, inspired the motto "Totus tuus" of St. John Paul II.
• The glories of Mary - San Alfonso María de Ligorio
  A devoted comment of the Hail and of the virtues and privileges of the Virgin, with abundant examples.
• The first love of the world (The World’s First Love) — Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
  A deep and luminous look at Mary, Mother of God and model of humanity.
• Memories of Sister Lucia - Sister Lucia dos Santos
  The first-hand account of Fatima's major seer about the apparitions and the message.
• Masking gravel / A story of Lourdes and the lives of the seers
  Biographies of Bernadette, Catherine Labouré and the pastoralists, to meet those who the Virgin chose.

Movies

• The song by Bernadette (1943)
  Classic Hollywood, winner of several Oscar, about Santa Bernadette and the apparitions of Lourdes.
• The Lady of Fatima (1951, Rafael Gil)
  Spanish film on the apparitions of Fatima and the three pastoralists.
• The miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
  Hollywood classic version of the events of 1917.
• Fatima (2020)
  Modern recreation of the apparitions, with a good historical setting.
• Bernadette. (1988, Jean Delannoy)
  Careful French film about the seer of Lourdes.
• Guadalupe (2006)
  On the apparitions of the Tepeyac to San Juan Diego and the image of the tylma.
• The miracle of Marcelino (1955)
  Classic Spanish cinema; tenderness, faith and child innocence in the sacred.

Documentales

• Documentaries on the tima of Guadalupe
  Studies on the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico (eyes, conservation, science before the prodigy).
• Fatima: the last mystery / the secrets of Fatima
  Documentaries that review the apparitions of 1917 and the famous "miracle of the sun."
• Lourdes and their cures
  On the sanctuary, the source and the rigour with which the Church and science examine the healing.
• EWTN production
  The Catholic channel EWTN (and EWTN Spain) offers numerous documentaries about Mary, the shrines and the Rosary.

Videos and channels on YouTube

To pray and to form, we select some reliable YouTube searches and channels. (Links open a search on YouTube, so you choose the video you prefer.)

• Holy Rosary prayed (to accompany prayer)
  Ver en YouTube · or pray with us in Begin the Rosary.
• The Mysteries of the Rosary explained
  Ver en YouTube
• The power of the Rosary (catechesis and testimonies)
  Ver en YouTube
• Marian apparitions: Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe
  Ver en YouTube
• Recommended channels
  EWTN Spain, and the official channels of the great Marian shrines (Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe, TorreciCiudad).

Orientation selection of Catholic resources. The works and titles cited are from their respective authors and publishers; YouTube links open searches for you to choose the content you prefer.