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10 Facts About Fatima Every Catholic Should Know

This is the essence of Our Lady’s messages: Repent, pray the Rosary daily, have devotion to her Immaculate Heart, pray and sacrifice for sinners and do the First Saturday devotion.

Joseph Pronechen Blogs May 13, 2021

Fatima, the Consecration and the First Saturday Devotion

Christians have always honored the Blessed Virgin on Saturdays because of her constant faith in Jesus on that first Holy Saturday before the Resurrection.

John Preiss Blogs May 13, 2021

Pope John Paul II celebrates a mass May 12, 1991 in the Chapel of the Apparition in front of the statue of Virgin of Fatima in Fatima where about a million believers attended the Procession of Candles. In 1997, the pope dedicated a shrine in a Polish church to the Virgin of Fatima, thanking her for intervening to save him from an assassination attempt in 1981.

40 Years After Fatima’s Third Secret: God Is Still Working Within Us

COMMENTARY: The 40th anniversary is a fitting time to dwell on God’s providence throughout the 20th century, which was the most violent, chaotic, and murderous 100-year period in human history.

Tim Busch Commentaries May 13, 2021

‘Mary, my mother; Mary, my mother.’ Bodyguards hold Pope John Paul II after he was shot May 13, 1981, in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca. After he was shot, the Pope appealed to the intercession of the Blessed Mother. Agca was jailed for 19 years in Italy for the attack on the Pope, which left the Holy Father seriously wounded. Agca was pardoned by the Italian president in June 2000 and extradited back to Turkey, where he was jailed for a 1979 murder.

May 13 Connects Fatima Apparitions, John Paul II Shooting

COMMENTARY: The saint was convinced he was saved by the Blessed Mother’s intercession in 1981.

Paul Kengor Commentaries May 13, 2021

Pope John Paul II prays in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary at the Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima on May 13, 1982. The Pope visited the shrine to give thanks for surviving the 1981 assassination attempt, when he was shot in St. Peter’s Square.

‘Mary’s Maternal Love’: St. John Paul II and Fatima

The Polish Pope encapsulated Our Lady’s message when he gave his 1982 homily at the Portugal shrine.

Joseph Pronechen Features May 13, 2021

Jorge Lamelas, Alejandra Howard and Stephanie Gil star in ‘Fatima.’

‘Fatima’ Movie Finally Comes to Theaters This Friday

More than a year after COVID-19 put the damper on Fatima’s nationwide debut, the film will open as it was always intended to, on the big screen, at AMC Theatres nationwide

Joseph Pronechen Blogs May 5, 2021

Procession of Our Lady of Fatima statue.

Annual Fatima Pilgrimage to be Virtual Due to Pandemic

Cardinal Marto asked the faithful to make a generous commitment to make “this extraordinary spiritual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima,” and said he has prepared the children of the diocese with catechesis to take part in it.

CNA World March 15, 2021

Our Lady and the Conversion of Muslims

Our Lady protects us by perpetually praying for us with the urgency of a mother, with a love so ferocious that it causes the hounds of hell to whimper.

Zubair Simonson Blogs December 12, 2020