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Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima! Let us celebrate!

"This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad."
- Psalm 118:24 (Catholic New American Bible)

Below is a brief history of the events that lead to the recognition of today as the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima:

In a mountainous region near the town of Fatima, Portugal, the Mother of God appeared six times between May 13th and October 13th, 1917, to three shepherd children, Lucia Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Mary told the children that she had been sent by God with a message for every man, woman and child in our century. Coming at a time when civilization was torn asunder by war and violence, Mary promised that Heaven would grant peace to all the world if her requests for prayer, reparation and consecration were heard and obeyed.

Mary explained that war is a punishment for sin. She warned that if people continued to disobey God’s Will, they would suffer consequences of war, hunger and persecution of the Church. She also prophesied that Russia would “spread her errors" of atheism and materialism across the earth.

Our Lady of Fatima repeatedly emphasized the necessity of praying the Rosary daily, of wearing the Brown Scapular, and of performing acts of reparation and sacrifice. She also promised a sign as proof of her messages.

On October 13, 1917, a crowd of 50,000 people at Fatima, including many noted skeptics, saw the sun rotating and spinning in the heavens; then, leaving its orbit, it plunged toward the earth. The “Miracle of the Sun” is fully documented. On May 13, 1982, Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter’s Square. He credits his miraculous escape from death to the intervention of Our Lady of Fatima. In November of 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain of Communism fell without a shot being fired. Our Lady of Fatima's words have stood the test of time. Let us continue to pray the Rosary and obey Our Lady's requests as we face new threats in our own time.

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