Our lady of Fatima

Our Lady of Fatima.

Our Lady of Fatima is a Catholic title for the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. 

In 1917, she appeared six times to three shepherd children in the village of Fatima, Portugal. 

The children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. 

The Virgin Mary identified herself as the Lady of the Rosary. 

The Roman Catholic Church officially recognized the Fátima events as worthy of belief in 1930. The feast day for Our Lady of Fatima is May 13, the anniversary of the first appearance. 

The Virgin Mary told the children that she would appear on the 13th of each month for the next five months. She also told them that Francisco and Jacinta would be taken to Heaven soon, but that Lúcia would live a long life. As she predicted, Jacinta and Francisco died during the Spanish flu epidemic.