The apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima and the secret prophecies that three shepherd children say she vouchsafed to them are 100 years old this year — but they are getting more attention than ever.
First, Pope Francis traveled to the shrine in central Portugal earlier this month to mark the May 13 anniversary and centenary by canonizing two of the three children, a brother and sister who died in the flu epidemic two years after the 1917 events.
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