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100-year anniversary of the apparitions seems a good time to honor Our Lady’s request This year is the 100th anniversary of the visions at Fatima. Last week I pointed out that Fatima’s “conversion of sinners” message comes, providentially, a year after the Year of Mercy. This week, I wanted to point out the vital necessity […]

A day when God shouted, and with great humility reached out to us through children… he Blessed Mother appeared to three small-town children in Portugal in 1917, calling on the world to repent and say the Rosary. At first, the only person who believed them was Ti Marto, the father of two of the children.

On “the day the sun danced,” thousands of people bore witness to a miracle that not only proved the validity of the Fatima Marian apparitions but is also said to have shattered the prevalent belief at the time that God was no longer relevant. What crowds witnessed the day of the miracle was “the news