{"id":5811,"date":"2026-06-23T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rezaelrosario.org\/our-lady-of-fatima"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:01:20","slug":"our-lady-of-fatima","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rezaelrosario.org\/pl\/our-lady-of-fatima","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of F\u00e1tima"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rr-om\">\n<style>\n.rr-om{max-width:880px;margin:0 auto;font-family:Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1E2A36}\n.rr-om h1{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;text-align:center;font-size:2.1rem;margin:.4rem 0 .2rem}\n.rr-om .rr-sub{text-align:center;color:#8A6D1D;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:1.15rem;margin:0 0 1.2rem}\n.rr-om .rr-lead{color:#344054;line-height:1.75;max-width:720px;margin:0 auto 1.2rem}\n.rr-om h2{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;font-size:1.45rem;border-bottom:2px solid #C9A227;padding-bottom:.35rem;margin:2.2rem 0 .9rem}\n.rr-om h3{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;font-size:1.1rem;margin:1.4rem 0 .5rem}\n.rr-om p{color:#344054;line-height:1.75}\n.rr-om .rr-card{background:#fff;border:1px solid #E6E1D8;border-radius:14px;box-shadow:0 4px 14px rgba(30,42,54,.06);padding:1.2rem 1.4rem;margin:0 0 1rem}\n.rr-om .rr-datos{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(240px,1fr));gap:10px;margin:.6rem 0}\n.rr-om .rr-dato{background:#F8F5EF;border:1px solid #E6E1D8;border-radius:10px;padding:.6rem .9rem;font-size:.95rem}\n.rr-om .rr-dato b{color:#1F4E79}\n.rr-om .rr-cita{background:#F8F5EF;border-left:3px solid #C9A227;padding:.8rem 1.1rem;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;margin:1rem 0;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;color:#41506b}\n.rr-om .rr-cita .rr-quien{display:block;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-size:.8rem;color:#8A6D1D;margin-top:.4rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em}\n.rr-om .rr-nota{background:#F3E7BD66;border:1px solid #E6D9A8;border-radius:10px;padding:.6rem .9rem;color:#6B5512;font-size:.92rem;margin:.4rem 0 .9rem}\n.rr-om .rr-btns{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;justify-content:center;margin:1.6rem 0}\n.rr-om .rr-btn{background:#1F4E79;color:#fff;border-radius:999px;padding:.6rem 1.2rem;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:.92rem}\n.rr-om .rr-btn:hover{background:#183B5C;color:#F3E7BD}\n.rr-om .rr-flor{background:linear-gradient(135deg,#1F4E79,#183B5C);border-radius:16px;padding:1.6rem 1.4rem;color:#fff;margin:2rem 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid #C9A22755}\n.rr-om .rr-flor h3{color:#F3E7BD;margin-top:0}\n.rr-om .rr-flor p{color:#E8EDF3}\n.rr-om .rr-flor a{display:inline-block;background:#C9A227;color:#1E2A36;border-radius:999px;padding:.7rem 1.5rem;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;margin-top:.6rem}\n.rr-om .rr-fuentes{font-size:.88rem;color:#667085;border-top:1px solid #E6E1D8;padding-top:1rem;margin-top:2rem}\n@media(max-width:560px){.rr-om h1{font-size:1.7rem}}\n<\/style>\n\n<h1>Our Lady of F\u00e1tima<\/h1>\n<p class=\"rr-sub\">The Lady of the Rosary at the Cova da Iria<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"rr-lead\">Our Lady of F\u00e1tima, formally Our Lady of the Rosary of F\u00e1tima, is a devotion under which the Virgin Mary is venerated. It originated in the testimonies of three shepherd children \u2014L\u00facia dos Santos, Francisco and Jacinta Marto\u2014 who said they had witnessed several apparitions at the Cova da Iria, in F\u00e1tima (Portugal), between 13 May and 13 October 1917. Since then this devotion has spread its renown throughout the world, and its shrine is one of the most important centres of Catholic pilgrimage.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Key facts<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rr-datos\">\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Feast:<\/b> 13 May<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Place:<\/b> Cova da Iria, F\u00e1tima (Portugal)<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Seers:<\/b> Saint Francisco and Saint Jacinta Marto, and the Servant of God L\u00facia dos Santos<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Year:<\/b> 1917 (six apparitions)<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Sign:<\/b> the \u00abMiracle of the Sun\u00bb (13 October 1917)<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Approval of the cult:<\/b> 1930 (Bishop of Leiria)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Central message:<\/strong> the Virgin called for the praying of the Rosary, for penance and for conversion, and asked for devotion to her Immaculate Heart.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The Angel and the little shepherds<\/h2>\n<p>According to the testimony of those who lived it, in 1916 the three shepherd children \u2014L\u00facia dos Santos, ten years old, and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, aged six and nine\u2014 experienced on three occasions, during the spring and summer, the presence of an angel while they tended their sheep, whom they called the Angel of Portugal or the Angel of Peace. As they recounted, the angel taught them to pray for the conversion of sinners and counselled them to practise daily sacrifice and the adoration of God in the Eucharist. The children understood this as a preparation for the apparitions of the Virgin that would take place the following year.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The six apparitions<\/h2>\n<p>On Sunday 13 May 1917, the three children went to graze their flock at the Cova da Iria, near F\u00e1tima. L\u00facia described having seen, above a holm oak, a woman \u00abbrighter than the sun,\u00bb dressed in white, with a mantle edged in gold and a rosary in her hands, who asked them to return on the same day and at the same hour for six consecutive months, entrusting them with the praying of the Rosary. Astonished, they ran to announce it to their village, where they met with the disbelief of many of their neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The apparitions followed one another on the thirteenth day of each month. In the messages the children conveyed, the Virgin exhorted them to repentance, to conversion and to the practice of prayer and penance in reparation for sins. On 13 July 1917, according to L\u00facia&#8217;s account, they were entrusted with the so-called \u00absecret of F\u00e1tima,\u00bb made known by the Holy See during the pontificate of Saint John Paul II. On their returns, the children were followed by thousands of people; the Virgin insisted on the importance of the Rosary for the conversion of sinners and asked that a chapel be built on the spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rr-nota\">Francisco and Jacinta Marto fell ill during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Francisco died on 4 April 1919 and Jacinta on 20 February 1920; both were canonized. L\u00facia dos Santos lived many years as a religious sister.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The message: Rosary, penance and the Immaculate Heart<\/h2>\n<p>According to the children&#8217;s testimonies, the Virgin stressed three appeals that sum up the message of F\u00e1tima:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcff <strong>The praying of the Holy Rosary<\/strong> each day, for the conversion of sinners and for the peace of the world.<br>\n\ud83d\ude4f <strong>Penance and conversion,<\/strong> as a path of reparation for the sins of humanity.<br>\n\ud83d\udc97 <strong>Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,<\/strong> which gave rise to successive consecrations by the popes.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The Miracle of the Sun (13 October 1917)<\/h2>\n<p>According to L\u00facia&#8217;s writings, the last apparition of the Virgin to the three little shepherds took place on 13 October 1917, the day on which the so-called \u00abMiracle of the Sun\u00bb occurred, witnessed by a great multitude \u2014the chronicles of the time speak of tens of thousands of people\u2014, among them journalists and public figures. The journalist Avelino de Almeida, of the newspaper <em>O S\u00e9culo<\/em>, reported the event, which he described as an unusual movement or \u00abdance\u00bb of the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rr-nota\">Various researchers have proposed natural explanations of the phenomenon (optical effects from looking at the sun, atmospheric phenomena). The Church does not require belief in the apparitions as an article of faith; the discernment of their authenticity belongs to the sense of the faithful guided by the Magisterium.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Approval by the Church (1930)<\/h2>\n<p>On 13 October 1930, the Bishop of Leiria declared the apparitions worthy of belief and authorized the cult of Our Lady of F\u00e1tima. The later chronology records milestones such as the beginning of the construction of the Chapel of the Apparitions (1919), the first consecration of Portugal to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1931) and the canonical coronation of the image (1946). The Church recalls that recognized private revelations do not belong to the deposit of faith, but help us to live more fully the definitive Revelation of Christ in a particular age.<\/p>\n\n<h2>F\u00e1tima and the popes<\/h2>\n<p>The message of F\u00e1tima has marked the magisterium of several pontiffs in a singular way. On 31 October 1942, Pius XII consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Paul VI made a pilgrimage to F\u00e1tima in 1967, on the fiftieth anniversary of the first apparition. Saint John Paul II closely linked his pontificate to F\u00e1tima: he travelled there as a pilgrim after surviving the assassination attempt of 1981 \u2014one of whose bullets was set into the crown of the image\u2014, renewed the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1984 and, on his visit in the year 2000, beatified Francisco and Jacinta and revealed the third part of the secret. In 2017, Pope Francis visited F\u00e1tima on the centenary of the first apparition and canonized the two little seers.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The spiritual message of F\u00e1tima<\/h2>\n<p>The event of F\u00e1tima still speaks to us today with simplicity:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcff <strong>The Rosary is a path of peace.<\/strong> Mary presented it as a simple and powerful prayer for the world.<br>\n\ud83d\ude4f <strong>Conversion begins in the heart.<\/strong> Penance and prayer make reparation and transform.<br>\n\ud83d\udc67 <strong>God speaks through the little ones.<\/strong> Three shepherd children were the bearers of a universal message.<br>\n\ud83d\udc97 <strong>The Immaculate Heart of Mary<\/strong> is a refuge and a sure path to her Son.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Prayer to Our Lady of F\u00e1tima<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rr-card\">\n<p>O most holy Virgin,<br>who appeared again and again to the children of F\u00e1tima:<br>I too would wish to see you, to hear your voice and to say to you:<br>My Mother, lead me to Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Trusting in your love, I ask you to obtain for me from your Son Jesus<br>a living faith, understanding to know him and to love him,<br>patience and grace to serve him and my brothers and sisters,<br>and one day to be united with you there in Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for my family, that it may live united in love;<br>for the conversion of sinners and the peace of the world;<br>and for children, that they may never lack the help of God.<\/p>\n<p>O my Mother, I know that you will hear me<br>and will obtain for me these and all the graces I ask of you,<br>for I ask them through the love you bear your Son Jesus.<br>Amen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pray also the <a href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">Litany of Our Lady of F\u00e1tima<\/a> and prepare her feast with the <a href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">novena to Our Lady of F\u00e1tima<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"rr-flor\">\n<h3>\ud83c\udf39 A flower for the Virgin<\/h3>\n<p>Pray a Hail Mary for the peace of the world, joining in the petition that the Virgin entrusted to the little shepherds of F\u00e1tima.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">Pray a Hail Mary<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rr-btns\">\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">\ud83d\ude4f Marian prayers<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">\ud83d\udcff Her novena<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">\ud83d\udcdc Her litany<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-calendar\/\">\ud83d\udcc5 Marian calendar<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/how-to-pray-the-rosary\/\">\ud83d\udcff Pray the Rosary<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/pray-the-rosary\/\">\ud83c\udf39 More devotions<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rr-fuentes\">\n<strong>Sources:<\/strong> \u00abOur Lady of F\u00e1tima,\u00bb Spanish Wikipedia (verified article) \u00b7 Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of F\u00e1tima (fatima.pt) \u00b7 Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 67 (on private revelations). 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