The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared 6 times to 3 shepherd ... would believe in the apparitions. The date the children was October 13, 1917, in Fatima. On that date, 70,000 people ...

The Statue of Our Lady of Fatima has made another stop in the Valley — this time in Hermitage. The statue travels around the ...

The other main stop for pilgrims to Fatima is the Chapel of Apparitions, an open-air chapel ... then blown up on the night of March 6, 1922, by those who suspected the church of staging the ...

A national shrine was designated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2016, making it the only national ...

In May, I visited the Portuguese village of Fatima, which is famous for its 1917 apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Today, it is a major shrine and a pilgrimage destination for millions of Catholics ...

What earned the apparitions their worldwide fame, however — the reason he learned about them as a boy, and one of the reasons millions of people still visit Fatima each year — was a prophecy ...