Tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims braved cold and rainy weather on Sunday to pay their final respects to the last of three shepherd children who said they had seen the Virgin Mary in ...

The children were tending a flock of sheep outside the tiny village of Fatima, Portugal, when they first saw the angel. He was transparent, they said, and shining like a crystal. Lucia Abobora, 9 ...

FATIMA, Portugal — Pope Francis has canonized two of three Shepherd children who claimed to see the Virgin Mary over 100 years ago. The two girls and a boy from the Portuguese town of Fatima ...

FATIMA, Portugal – Three shepherd children in Portugal were jailed and threatened with being boiled alive in olive oil when they claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to them 100 years ago. The ...

Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima, died on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005, in Lisbon ...

In 1917, three children heard Mary’s urgent plea: embrace her heart, offer sacrifices for souls, and pray the Rosary every day. In 2025, that call is more needed than ever.

Reporting from FATIMA, Portugal — Pope Francis on Saturday added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints, honoring young siblings who reported seeing visions of the ...

The 1917 apparitions of Our Lady to the three children, Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia, at Fatima is one of history’s most dramatic Marian events.

In 1917, the Virgin Mary visited three children in a field outside the village of Fatima, in central Portugal. For six months, Mary appeared regularly to the 10-year-old Lucia dos Santos and her ...

FATIMA, PORTUGAL — Three shepherd children in Portugal were jailed and threatened with being boiled alive in olive oil when they claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to them 100 years ago.

FATIMA, Portugal (AP) — Three shepherd children in Portugal were jailed and threatened with being boiled alive in olive oil when they claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to them 100 years ago. The ...