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Dio CheyenneToday, we celebrate the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, who appeared to three Portuguese children, Francisco and Jacinta Marto and their cousin Lucia dos Santos, between May 13 and October 13, 1917. Mary asked the children to pray the rosary for world peace, for the end of World War I, for sinners, and for the conversion of Russia.
Mary gave the children three secrets. In 1927, following the deaths of Francisco and Jacinta in 1919 and 1920, respectively, Lucia revealed the first secret, which concerned devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The second secret the children received was a vision of hell. In 2000, Saint Pope John Paul II directed the Holy See’s Secretary of State to reveal the third secret, which spoke of a group of soldiers firing bullets and arrows into a “bishop in white.” Some people believe this vision is linked to the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981.
Lucia became a Carmelite nun and died in 2005 at the age of 97. The feast of Our Lady of Fatima was approved by the local bishop in 1930; it was added to the Church’s worldwide calendar in 2002. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
