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 Virgin Mary visited three children in a field outside the village of Fatima, in central Portugal. For six months, Mary appeared regularly to the 10-year-old Lucia dos Santos and her younger ...

Fatima, Portugal: The three shepherd children said the Virgin Mary appeared to them six times in 1917 and confided to them three secrets. The first two described an apocalyptic image of hell ...

More: Pope proclaims 2 Fatima children saints 100 years after visions of Virgin Mary The Roman Catholic Church teaches the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917 in Fatima ...

Friend researched the sixteen Vatican-approved Marian-apparition sites—places where the Virgin Mary has been deemed by the Catholic Church to have shown herself—looking for patches of earth wh ...

The other main stop for pilgrims to Fatima is the Chapel of Apparitions ... the site of a small holm oak tree over which the Virgin Mary appeared on May 13, 1917. That oak fell victim to souvenir ...