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  Fatima Secret - Message and Commentary
Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions.
She repeated her conviction that the vision of Fatima concerns above all the struggle of atheistic Communism against the Church and against Christians, and describes the terrible sufferings of the victims of the faith in the twentieth century.
It is clear that in the visions of Lourdes, Fatima and other places it is not a question of normal exterior perception of the senses: the images and forms which are seen are not located spatially, as is the case for example with a tree or a house.
www.ewtn.com /fatima/apparitions/Third_Secret/Fatima.htm   (9020 words)

  
 Fatima
The great fame of Fatima, with more than two million pilgrims arriving a year, is not, however, due to the dogma and support of the dictatorial church by rather due to the place that Fatima holds in the hearts and minds of the common people of Portugal, Spain, France and other countries.
At Fatima, Mary is not generally approached as the idealized chaste Virgin but rather as a down to earth mother figure that understands, deeply loves, and offers assistance with the concerns of women and children.
of 2000, the Pope again visited Fatima and this time revealed that part of the so-called "third secret of Fatima" was that Mary had prophesized the1981 assassination attempt and revealed this in her apparition to Lucia in 1917.
www.sacredsites.com /europe/portugal/fatima.htm   (1893 words)

  
 Fatima Prophecies - Crystalinks
Investigations into the Fatima event have proved that the miracle of October 13, 1917 was seen over an area of 32 miles by 20, an area of over 600 square miles.
As you know, the purpose of his visit to Fatima has been to beatify the two "little shepherds." Nevertheless, he also wishes his pilgrimage to be a renewed gesture of gratitude to Our Lady for her protection during these years of his papacy.
Fatima, like the rest of Portugal, also had fascist links during World War II, when Portugal was neutral under the right-wing dictatorship of António Salazar but traded with the Nazi regime.
www.crystalinks.com /fatima.html   (4171 words)

  
 Fatima Family Apostolate
It was not surprising to the Fatima Family Apostolate to learn that Archbishop Kondrusiewicz spoke with emotion and there were tears in his bidding farewell to Catholics of Russia.
FATIMA: THE FACTS may be obtained free of any charges by anyone wishing to distribute them freely.
It manifested both an ignorance of the spirituality of Fatima, an unhealthy curiosity rather than a depth of spirituality that desires to live the Gospel message for union with Jesus Christ - which every Pope since 1930 has said was reaffirmed at Fatima.
www.fatimafamily.org   (5413 words)

  
 Fatima
Fatima is a town in Portugal famous for the religious visions that are said to have taken place there in 1917.
Fatima is a town (vila) of approximately 10,000 inhabitants located in the district of Santarém in central Portugal, 187 km south of Porto and 123 km north off Lisbon.
Fatima's centerpiece is the shrine called the Sanctuary of Fatima, built to commemorate the events of 1917 when three peasant children claimed to have seen the "Virgin of the Rosary", Our Lady of Fatima.
www.portugal.com /fatima/default.asp   (377 words)

  
 Fatima is Fatima
Fatima is the one who, holding her father's hand, accompanies him into the bazaar, listens to his debates and walks with him to her home.
Fatima, who when she finds injustice and opprssion speaks out with the totality of her being, not fearing the outcome of her words for she knows she speaks with the tongue of Truth.
Ali Shariati's Fatima is Fatima (part xiii) The change from the traditional type of 'mother' to the new type of 'daughter' is inevitable.
www.shia.org /fatima.html   (7128 words)

  
 The Apparitions at Fatima
At this time Fatima was just a small village about seventy miles north of Lisbon; the three children to whom she appeared were Lucia dos Santos, aged ten, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, brother and sister, aged eight and seven respectively.
Her body was returned to Fatima and buried with that of Francisco, until both were later moved to the basilica built at the Cova da Iria.
Fatima received further Papal support when, on 13 May 1979, the Pope declared Jacinta and Francisco "venerable," the first stage in the process of their possible canonisation.
www.theotokos.org.uk /pages/approved/appariti/fatima.html   (3265 words)

  
 Words Without Borders -> Fatima
But something in Fatima, who could not have been more than ten years old, I thought, crippled my thinking and provoked my emotions, and each time I met her, or when she came to my office, I felt the eruption of a muted scream tear at my heart.
I tried to convince myself that Fatima and the likes of her are a fact of life that we should accept just as we accept so many manifestations of social problems.
Fatima, who roams the streets of the city that heaps daily abuse on her as she looks for warmth and love, for a childhood dream that fades away with each passing day, a dream that wears out, gets tattered like those tattered things she puts in her fl sack.
www.wordswithoutborders.org /article.php?lab=Fatima   (3235 words)

  
 Fatima, Portugal " Our Lady of Fatima "
She came to the little village of Fatima which had remained faithful to the Catholic Church during the recent persecutions by the government.
Our Lady of Fatima promised that the whole world would be in peace, and that many souls would go to Heaven if Her requests were listened to and obeyed.
She told us that war is a punishment for sin; that God would punish the world for its sins in our time by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and persecution of the Holy Father, the Pope, unless we listened to and obeyed the command of God.
www.christusrex.org /www1/apparitions/pr00011.htm   (646 words)

  
 Fatima
Though every pope since has read it, and Fatima is viewed as an "official" miracle by the church, the contents of the 3rd and final message had remained unknown to the public - until June 26, 2000.
On Saturday, May 13th, 2000, as Pope John Paul II visited the Fatima shrine, the Vatican announced that the remaining secret was a "prophetic vision" of Christian suffering and martyrdom that foresaw, among other events, the 1981 assassination attempt that left John Paul wounded by gunfire in St. Peter's Square.
Though every pope since has read it, and Fatima is viewed as an "official" miracle by the church, the contents of the final message remain unknown to the public.
home.att.net /~thehessians/fatima.html   (1102 words)

  
 Fatima az-Zahra'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fatima az-Zahra' was one of the three daughters of the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h) and whose mother, Khadija, was the Prophet’s first wife.
The Prophet commended Fatima’s character, once saying to her, "Thou art the highest of the women of the people of Paradise, excepting only the Virgin Mary, daughter of Imran" (Lings M, Muhammad; his life based on the earliest sources 1988, p332).
Today she is held in great reverence by Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims alike and a sepulchre called Fatima’s Tomb is located near the tomb of the Prophet in the Prophet’s mosque.
www.kinghussein.gov.jo /hash_fatima.html   (161 words)

  
 Fatima
Fatima's (A.S.) Youth: The Prophet (s.a.w.) taught Fatimah (A.S.) divine knowledge and endowed her with special intelligence, so that she realized the true meaning of faith, piety, and the reality of Islam.
But Fatima (A.S.) also was a witness of sorrow and a life of anguish from the very beginning of her life.
One day, the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) of I came to the house of his daughter, Fatima (A.S.), and told her that he was very tired and asked her to cover him with his cloak.
www.ummah.net /khoei/fatima.htm   (524 words)

  
 Our Lady of Fatima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As with other modern miracles, Catholics are not required to believe in a miraculous origin for the events at Fatima, however the events at Fatima were officially declared "worthy of belief" by the Roman Catholic Church on October 13, 1930.
Fatima is originally an Arabic name, and was used by Muslims to name daughters in honour of prophet Muhammad's daughter, who had that name - see"Fatima Zahra".
Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII (and "Pope of Fatima" as he had also become known as) was being consecrated a Bishop in the Sistine Chapel by Pope Benedict XV on May 13, 1917, the day "the Lady of the Rosary" is said to have first appeared at Fatima, Portugal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fatima   (3685 words)

  
 Fatima Shrine in Russia
The statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary which is a focus of devotion in the Russian Fatima Shrine was blessed by the Bishop of Fatima in Portugal, then taken to Sister Lucia in her Carmelite Monastery where she venerated it, standing by it during the Sacrifice of the Mass.
The Fatima Shrine in Russia is located 1/2 block from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, which the Communists had seized for decades and used as headquarters to spread atheism throughout Russia and the Soviet Union.
Russia’s Fatima Shrine is within a three minute walk to the Czar’s Winter Palace where the Revolution for world domination by Communism began with the storming of the Palace in 1917.
www.fatimafamily.org /rushrine.html   (468 words)

  
 World Mysteries - Mystic Places - Fatima
On May 13, 1917, in a field called Cova da Iria near the Portuguese village of Fatima, "a beautiful lady from Heaven", shining like the sun and standing on a cloud over a beech tree, appeared to three children: Lucia Dos Santos (age 10) and her two cousins, Francisco (9) and Jacinta Marti (7).
The prophecies of Fatima are almost as well known -- and respected -- as those of the famous French seer Nostradamus.In l9l7 three children had repeated visions of the Virgin Mary in Portugal.
Fatima has become the most important destination for pilgrims in Portugal, attracting over a million and a half travelers yearly.
www.world-mysteries.com /mpl_12.htm   (6533 words)

  
 THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS & FATIMA
The apparitions at Fatima were preceded for two years by the visitations of the Angel of Portugal, also referred to sometimes as the Angel of Peace.
But if we choose to offer our sufferings as sacrifices, as the little children of Fatima did, we would be taking the right road, the road of the Cross by which we receive the grace of salvation for our own souls and through which a waterfall of graces is shed upon sinners for their salvation.
It is at Fatima that we hear for the first time about "the infinite merits of the Immaculate Heart of Mary" united with the "infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus" as illustrated on the back of the Miraculous Medal.
www.ladyofallnations.org /fatima.htm   (8737 words)

  
 Santuário de Fátima - Página Oficial
The Shrine of Fátima will present on the 11th of October of this year the Oratorio ´Fátima, sign of hope for mankind´, another cultural initiative included in the celebrations of the 90th Anniversary of the Apparitions of Fátima The second performance is scheduled for the afternoon of October 13, day...
Made according indications by Sister Lúcia, the image of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima was a gift made by the Bishop of Leiria and it was solemnly crowned by the Archbishop of Évora on May 13, 1947.
Pipe Organ Concert at the Shrine of Fatima
www.santuario-fatima.pt /portal/index.php?lang=EN   (333 words)

  
 Apparitions of Mary: Fatima, Portuagl
May 13, 1982: Pope John Paul II, in a visit to Fatima to thank Mary for saving his life, stated that the 'message of Fatima is still more relevant than it was sixty-five years ago.
Fatima is the key Marian apparition of the Twentieth Century.
Pope Pius XII noted that the message of Fatima is one of the greatest interventions of God through Mary in world history since the death of the Apostles.
www.apparitions.org /fatima.html   (563 words)

  
 Our Lady of Fatima: Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima
The three young visionaries of Fatima were tending to their sheep when, in 1916, the so-called "Angel of Peace" appeared to them.
Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.
He had just leaned down to kiss a miniature statue of Our Lady of Fatima that a little girl was wearing around her neck, when the shots were fired, narrowly missing his head.
www.medjugorje-online.com /apparitions/fatima.php   (1815 words)

  
 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Fatima
Let it bear to her the anguished cry of mothers and wives, the wailing of innocent little ones, the sighs of every generous heart; that her most tender and benign solicitude may be moved and the peace we ask for be obtained for our agitated world.
A condensed version of the events at Fatima was reported in a number of newspapers around the world despite the fact that astronomers reported nothing unusual had happened to the sun.
Mary's message of repentance, prayer and conversion to the ways of her Son, transmitted at Fatima, seemed to lose its immediacy in the early 1960's when the third Secret was not revealed.
members.aol.com /bjw1106/marian6.htm   (3527 words)

  
 MYFATIMA2
Our Lady of Fatima explained to the children that war is a punishment for sin and warned that God would further castigate the world for its disobedience to His Will by means of war, hunger and the persecution of the Church, the Holy Father and the Catholic Faithful.
esides the Message of Fatima given by Our Lady to the general public in the series of apparitions from May 13th to October 13th, She confided on July 13th, 1917, a Secret which was to be given later to all the faithful by Sister Lucy and the Church authorities.
The message of Fatima is a heavenly light and occasion of grace and salvation for the 20th century, a Message and an event unparalleled in Church History, the most momentous and important event of our time, which is still unfolding to this day.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/7771/fatimasecrets.htm   (8376 words)

  
 Fatima - October 13 Fatima Miracle - Mary Sighted October 13 Oct. 13 Marian Apparition Virgin Mary Sighting
The Fatima case can certainly be added to this continuum, but I would suggest that it constitutes an outlying point that is quite far removed from the majority of other cases reported in the existing UFO literature.
In his discussion of the Fatima revelations, Francis Johnston made it clear that they have caused a great deal of controversy within the Catholic Church, and the new material (including, for example, the idea of consecrating Russia to the Heart of Mary) has not been immediately and universally acceptable.
It would seem that at Fatima a new revelation was made in the context of an older tradition, and this has also been done many times in the past.
www.mt.net /~watcher/october13maryfatima.html   (3305 words)

  
 The Fatima Apparitions   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first secret of Fatima is the vision of hell, the WWII prophecies and the rise of communism.
The second secret of Fatima is the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Mary's purpose "is, through (the children of Fatima), to call the world back to simplicity, that is to the essentials: conversion, prayer and the sacraments," he said.
users.ev1.net /~seektress/fatima1.htm   (3963 words)

  
 The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje
Given the importance of the Fatima and Medjugorje events, we may legitimately ask, "Is there a very special connection between the two?" Posing this question to myself and striving to find the answer has given rise to my writing of this book.
At Fatima, Mary draws attention to her sinlessness--the fact that she is the Immaculate One--in reference to her Heart.
The message of Fatima is centered in the request for consecration to the Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
www.sofc.org /FATIMA/spiritf.htm   (22490 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Fatima's 'third secret' revealed
While two of the so-called "secrets of Fatima" are well known, the third has never been revealed to anyone but Popes and a few top Vatican officials.
Pope John Paul II is reported to have had a special fondness for Fatima since the 1981 assassination attempt, which occurred on 13 May - the anniversary of the first apparition.
The secrets were written down by Sister Lucia in 1944, at a time she thought she was dying, and sent to Rome where they were locked away in the Vatican archives.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/747312.stm   (658 words)

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