Pope Francis heads to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in northern Portugal on Friday (May 12) to celebrate the centenary of the first appearances of the Virgin Mary as described by three shepherd children on May 13, 1917.
What were those apparitions and why have they played such a central role in Catholicism over the past 100 years? And what are the so-called “secrets of Fatima,” only some of which have been “revealed” by the Catholic Church? Let us 'Splain …
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