Mormon Miracle Pageant

Mormon Miracle Pageant
Written by	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Date premiered	1967
Subject	Book of Mormon, First Vision, Mormon pioneers
Genre	Religion
Setting	South lawn of Temple Hill, Manti Temple, Manti, Utah
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The Mormon Miracle Pageant is a Latter-day Saint Pageant (an annual outdoor theatrical performance) held in Manti, Utah. It is produced by an amateur cast of over five hundred members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The nightly program takes place on the south lawn of temple hill at the Manti Temple. The two-week pageant typically draws an average of 15,000 people per night over an eight-night performance.

For LDS Church members, the pageant is a faith-promoting family event. The pageant portrays the relationship and chronology of three separate, but related, faith-promoting accounts from an LDS perspective. Opening with the experiences of the first LDS prophet, Joseph Smith, during his young-adulthood in the burned-over district of New York in the 1820s. Including the recovery and translation of the Book of Mormon, the restoration of the "Church of Jesus Christ" in 1830 (which was renamed "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" in 1838) and its infancy, and the death of Smith in 1844. During the dramatization of the translation of the Book of Mormon an overview of its contents it presented. The wars and contentions of the native Israelite inhabitants of North America are represented, along with their teachings of Jesus Christ, leading to his post-resurrection appearance in the first century A.D. The pageant concludes with the persecution of the Mormon pioneers in the East and their subsequent exodus to Utah, led by the second LDS prophet, Brigham Young, and the group of pioneers sent to central Utah (now Sanpete Valley), where the Manti Temple stands.

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