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Apparitions of the Angel
 

 In rural Portugal of 1916 it would not have been unusual to see children leading their family flocks to pasture. This is what the children of the Marto and Santos families, cousins all, did on many days. Often it was Lucia Santos, Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta, who gladly undertook this chore, grateful for the chance to be outdoors and to play as the sheep silently grazed. They would take their families few sheep to graze on small plots of land owned by their parents in different parts of the sera, the mountainous plateau on which was located the village of Fátima (where the parish church was) and Aljustrel (where the children actually resided). Two favorite grazing areas were the hillside facing Aljustrel, near an outcropping called Loca do Cabeco (Place of the Head) and the Cova da Iria (Cove of Irene) at some distance beyond Fátima. At first one, then the other, would occur the apparitions which would change the course of the children's lives and the history of the 20th century.

First Apparition of the Angel of Portugal

Second Apparition of the Angel of Portugal

Third Apparition of the Angel of Portugal

 

The Fátima Children

Lucia Santos

Bl. Jacinta Marto

Bl. Francisco Marto

The Apparitions

The Theology of Apparitions

Apparitions of the Angel of Portugal - 1916

Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 1917

Text of the Secret of Fátima with Commentary

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