Today, May 13, is the memorial of Our Lady of Fatima.
“… and I saw Our Lady once more, this time resembling the Glorious Virgin of Carmel…” (Servant of God Lucia dos Santos)
The apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three children in Fatima, Portugal took place on the 13th of each month from May to October in 1917.
Our Lady appeared to Servant of God Lucia dos Santos, age 9; Saint Francisco Marto, age 8; and Saint Jacinta Marto, age 6, while they were tending sheep. Asked what the mysterious lady looked like, the children described her as “a woman all in white, more brilliant than the sun,” and her message was to do reparation for sins that offend God, and to pray constantly for the conversion of sinners.
She asked for devotion to the Holy Trinity, and for praying the Rosary daily for world peace. Word spread, and by the final apparition on October 13, 70,000 people showed up to witness the Lady and the sign that she had promised; they witnessed the sun make three circles and zigzag around in the sky.