Miracles at both shrines show how God uses simple elements — just as he did in Scripture — to bring healing and conversion.
Between May and October 1917, Our Lady appeared six times to three young Portuguese children in a field called the Cova de Iria, near the small village of Fatima, about seventy miles north of Lisbon.
Brothers and sisters, in this place it is amazing to think how three children entrusted themselves to the interior force which had enflamed them in the apparitions ... of Our Lady of Fatima ...
Sister Lúcia dos Santos, who lived to age 97, is our primary source for the Marian apparitions and communications ... and the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, drew 6.3 million visitors in ...
“The papal approval not only celebrates Our Lady of Fatima as a powerful intercessor ... a message that has resonated globally since her apparitions,” De Sagun said. “The coronation will ...
The children were told by Our Lady that God would perform a miracle so that people would believe in the apparitions. The date the children was October 13, 1917, in Fatima. On that date ...