The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared 6 times to 3 shepherd children; Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta; between May 13 and October 13, 1917. She came to the little village of Fatima ...

The month of May holds a cherished place in the heart of the Catholic Church. It is more than just a time of blooming flowers ...

According to her, the Fatima children learned to place God ... I enjoin everyone to deepen our devotion to our Mother Mary, source of our joy and hope,” he said.

(Lucia’s mother, certain she was lying ... a cult of popular devotion to the Virgin of Fatima was born. (Never mind that no one else saw Mary in the field, or that she was evidently mistaken ...