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Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, pronounced [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲɔɾɐ ðɨ ˈfatimɐ]; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
Lúcia dos Santos (left) with fellow visionaries of Our Lady, Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Between May and October 1917, Lúcia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto reported visions of a luminous lady, who they believed to be the Virgin Mary, in the Cova da Iria fields outside the hamlet of Aljustrel, near Fátima, Portugal. [7]
The title Our Lady of Fátima was given to the Virgin Mary as a result, and the Sanctuary of Fátima became a major centre of global Roman Catholic pilgrimage. The two Marto children were solemnly canonized by Pope Francis at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, in Portugal, on 13 May 2017, the centennial of the first Apparition of Our Lady of ...
"To understand and appreciate Fatima is to understand and appreciate Portuguese Catholicism". [5] Jeffrey S. Bennett takes note of how, starting in the 1930s, the image of Our Lady of Fátima developed into a rallying point for anti-communism, an idea that spread far beyond the Iberian peninsula. [3]
Page from Ilustração Portuguesa, 29 October 1917, showing the people looking at the Sun during the Fátima apparitions attributed to the Virgin Mary. The Miracle of the Sun (Portuguese: Milagre do Sol), also known as the Miracle of Fátima, is a series of events reported to have occurred miraculously on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd who had gathered in Fátima, Portugal, in ...
Fatima died in 11/632, within six months of Muhammad's death. [14] [166] She was 18 or 27 years old at that time according to Shia and Sunni sources, respectively. [33] The exact date of her death is uncertain but the Shia commonly commemorates her death on 13 Jumada II. [167] The Sunni belief is that Fatima died from grief after Muhammad's death.
In 1978, he launched a periodical, the Fatima Crusader, dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, which was at first a journal dedicated to praying the rosary. [citation needed] In the early 1980s the Fatima Crusader began to focus more on Gruner's interpretation of the message of Our Lady of Fatima, [1] particularly regarding the consecration of Russia.
Fatima in Lucia's Own Words [1] (Portuguese: Memórias da Irmã Lúcia, also known as Sister Lucia's Memoirs) is a 1976 collection of memoirs and letters written by Sister Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos (), the last surviving seer of the apparitions Our Lady of Fátima in 1917. [2]