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Our Lady of the Rosary, Fatima, Portugal
Commemorated on May 13
While tending sheep in a field called the Cova de Iria, Lucia de Santos (10) and her two cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, reported six apparitions of Mary, who identified herself as "Our Lady of the Rosary." Mary urged prayer of the rosary, penance for the conversion of sinners and consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart. History
Timeline
March 22, 1907
Lucia dos Santos was born on to Antonio and Maria Rosa dos Santos.
1908
Portugal's monarchy is overthrown
June 11, 1908
Francisco Marto was born on to Manuel and Olimpia de Jesus Marto. He was the older brother of Jacinta and the first cousin of Lucia dos Santos.
March 11, 1910
Jacinta Marto was born.
1911-1916
1,700 priests, nuns, and monks were killed by anti-Christian groups and public religious ceremonies were forbidden.
May 5, 1917
Pope Benedict XV sends out pastoral letter to the world asking the faithful to petition Mary "that her most tender and benign solitude may be moved and the peace we ask for be obtained for our agitated world"
May 13, 1917
Date of Eugenio Pacelli's (Pope Pius XII) Episcopal consecration.
May 13, 1917
Three shepherd children, Lucia, Jacinta, & Francisco, see a ball of light near an oak tree and when they approach make out the light to be a beautiful lady. She says she is from Heaven and that she wishes the children to come to the Cova on the 13th of the month for 6 months.
June 13, 1917
Our Lady appears for the second time to the children who came despite their parents' wishes for them to attend the St. Anthony Festival.
July 13, 1917
The parish priest and Lucia's mother think the apparitions are diabolical but she decides to join the others at the Cova with 3,000 onlookers.They are told that a devotion to her Immaculate Heart would bring more souls to salvation. They are given three secrets: a vision of Hell, the consecration of Russia, and a papal assassination.
Aug 13, 1917
The fourth apparition does not occur as planned due to the kidnapping of the children by an anti-Church civil administrator
Aug 19, 1917
The children see Our Lady for the fourth time and she speaks of the need for penance for one's sins and those of the world.
Sept 13, 1917
A crowd of thirty thousand witnesses the sun dim at noon and then a globe of light descending on the oak tree. White roses are seen falling from the sky and the visionaries are reminded of the importance of praying the rosary to end the war. They are told that St. Joseph and the child Jesus will accompany her at the October apparition.
Oct 13, 1917
Our Lady appears to the children for the sixth time. She identified herself as "Our Lady of the Rosary" and the famous dance of the sun took place, witnessed by a crowd of 70,000 people.
Oct 1918
Francisco and Jacinta became seriously ill with the Spanish flu. Our Lady appeared to them and said she would to take them to heaven soon.
April 4, 1919
Bed-ridden, Francisco requested his first Communion. The following day, Francisco died, April 14, 1919.
1919
Dom Jose Alves Correia da Silva, the Bishop of the Diocese of Leiria-Fatima, appointed a commission to study the case and began the official canonical inquiry.
Feb 20, 1920
Jacinta Marto dies after suffering a long illness. She had been transferred to a Lisbon hospital and operated for an abscess in her chest, but her health did not improve.
Oct 13, 1921
The first Mass at Cova da Iria was celebrated.
Nov 17, 1921
A spring began to flow at the site of the apparitions.
1925
At age 18 Lucia became a postulant at the convent of the Dorothean Sisters at Pontevedra, Spain.
Dec 10, 1925
At Pontevedra, Our Lady gave the young postulant nun the promise of the Five First Saturdays.
Oct 3, 1928
Lucia pronounces her first vows.
Oct 13, 1928
The foundation stone for the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary was laid.
June 13, 1929
At Tuy, where, in the presence of the Holy Trinity, Mary further revealed to Lucia the spirit of this great devotion of reparation. "The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means."
Oct 1, 1930
The Sacred Penitentiary under Pius XI granted a partial indulgence to those who individually visited the Shrine and prayed for the intentions of the Holy Father, and a plenary indulgence once a month to those who went there in a group.
Oct 13, 1930
Announcement of Dom Jose Alves Correia da Silva, Bishop of the Diocese of Leiria-Fatima on the results of the Investigative Commission, declaring the apparitions "worthy of belief".
May 13, 1931
The Portuguese bishops consecrated their nation to the Immaculate Heart
Aug 1931
Sister Lucia was staying with a friend at Rianjo, Spain to rest and recover while ill. In the chapel there, Our Lord complained to Sister Lucy of the tardiness of the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Feb 6, 1938
Seven months before the declaration of war, Sister Lucy wrote to her bishop, Msgr. da Silva to tell him that war was imminent, but then spoke of a miraculous promise: "in this horrible war, Portugal would be spared because of the national consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary made by the bishops."
May 13, 1938
The Portuguese bishops had vowed in 1936 that if Our Lady protected Portugal from the Communists, they would express their gratitude by renewing the National Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. True to their word, they renewed the Consecration of Portugal to the Immaculate Heart in thanksgiving for Our Lady’s protection. Cardinal Cerejeira acknowledged publicly: "one cannot fail to recognize that the invisible hand of God has protected Portugal, sparing it the scourge of war and the leprosy of atheistic communism."
1940
Pope Pius XII spoke of Fatima for the first time in an official Papal text, his encyclical Saeculo exeunte, which was written to encourage the Church in Portugal to further its foreign missionary activity. In the text he stated: "Let the faithful not forget, especially when they recite the Rosary, so recommended by the Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima, to ask the Virgin Mother of God to obtain missionary vocations, with abundant fruits for the greatest possible number of souls. ..."
1940
The Holy Father granted the new diocese of Nampula, in Mozambique, Our Lady of Fatima as its Patroness.
Aug 31, 1941
Lucia reveals first two secrets in her writings in the “Third Memoir” for the Bishop of Leira-Fatima.
Oct 31, 1942
In honor of the 25th Anniversary of the apparitions, Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) solemnly consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
1943
Sister Lucia explained that the Lord told her that He would accept this Act of Consecration to help speed the end of the World War II, but that it will not obtain worldwide peace. As predicted, this act obtained the end of the war, but did not usher in the reign of peace Our Lady promised, as it was not a consecration of specifically Russia, and the world’s bishops did not participate in it.
1946
Lucia entered the convent of the Carmelite Sisters of Coimbra under the name of Sister Maria Lucia of the Immaculate Heart.
May 13, 1946
Cardinal Masella, Papal Legate, crowned the statue of Our Lady of Fatima on the 300th Anniversary of the consecration of the nation of Portugal to Mary Immaculate.
Sept 1944
Bishop da Silva suggested that Sister Lucy write down the text of the Third Secret and issues a formal order the following month at her request.
Jan 2, 1944
Sr. Lucia finally writes down the Third Secret after previosuly having claimed to have physically been unable to obey the command due to paralysis of a preternatural cause.
Jan 9, 1944
Sr Lucia wrote to Bishop da Silva to tell him that the Third Secret had been written down and placed in a sealed envelope.
May 4, 1944
The Holy See instituted the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
June 17, 1944
The envelope was delivered to Bishop da Silva, by Sr Lucia's bishop confessor in Tuy. (The five month delay had resulted from Sister Lucia's unwillingness to entrust the envelope to anyone but a bishop.)
May 13, 1946
Cardinal Masella, Papal Legate, crowned Our Lady of Fatima "Queen of the World" on the 300th Anniversary of the consecration of the nation of Portugal to Mary Immaculate. The entire Portuguese episcopate and over 600,000 pilgrims gathered at Fatima for the event.
Oct 13, 1951
Pope’s Legate, Cardinal Tedeschini, was sent to Fatima for the closing of the Holy Year. He told the crowd that Pope Pius XII had himself seen, repeated in Rome, the Miracle of the Sun that had occurred at the last Fatima apparition. The Holy Father had, in fact, been graced to see the Miracle of the Sun on four separate occasions the previous year: October 30 and 31, November 1 , and November 8 .
July 7,1952
Pope Pius XII consecrated Russia and her people to the Immaculate Heart. But he did the Consecration in a private ceremony, without inviting the world’s bishops to join him, as Our Lady requested.
Oct 6, 1953
The Basilica was solemnly consecrated by Cardinal Cerejeira, the Patriarch of Lisbon.
Oct 11, 1954
Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical on the Queenship of Mary, and in it he referred to Her miraculous appearance at Fatima.
1956
The church on the apparition site was elevated to the rank of Basilica.
1964
At the closing ceremonies at the end of the third session of the Second Vatican Council, before all the Catholic bishops of the world, Pope Paul VI renewed Pius XII’s consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He also announced that a special envoy was to be sent to Fatima. In the Pope’s name the Papal Legate would carry, as a symbolic gift, a Golden Rose to the Fatima Shrine. The inscription on it would say that Pope Paul was entrusting the entire Church to the care of Our Lady of Fatima.
May 13, 1965
Pope Paul through his Papal Legate presented the Golden Rose at Fatima, commending the whole Church to Our Lady of Fatima’s care.
May 13, 1967
50th Anniversary of the apparitions, on May 13, 1967, Pope Paul VI went to Fatima on a pilgrimage of prayer and peace. On that occasion, he published an Apostolic Exhortation, Signum Magnum, in which he invited "all members of the Church to consecrate themselves to Mary Immaculate and to put this pious act into concrete action in their daily lives."
May 13, 1981
A young Turk, Mehmet Alì Agca, shoots the Pope John Paul II in the abdomen and hand while he circles St. Peter's Square. The pope later attributes being saved from the point blank assasination attempt to the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima: "It was a motherly hand that guided the bullet's path."
May 13, 1982
Pope John Paul II offered Mass in Fatima to give thanks for Mary's intercession in saving his life a year earlier. He reminded the faithful that "the message of Fatima is a call to conversion and repentance, the nucleus of the message of the Gospel." He re-consecrated the world to Mary's Immaculate Heart and called all to prayer, especially the Rosary.
March 25, 1984
Pope John Paul II consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in response to the request of Our Lady of Fatima.
May 13, 2000
Pope John Paul II beatified the two deceased seers, Jacinta and Francisco. He has also made the Feast day of Our Lady of Fatima universal by ordering it to be included in the Roman Missal. Francisco, 11, and Jacinta, 10, are the youngest non-martyrs to be beatified in the history of the Church.
June 26, 2000
The third secret of Fatima is revealed by Pope John Paul II with Sr. Lucia in attendance. Commentary by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Nov. 17, 2001
Sr. Lucia makes a statement to the secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone that the Fatima secret has been totally revealed by the Vatican, and Russia has already been consecrated as Mary requested.
Feb 21, 2005
Lucia dos Santos dies at age 97.
2008
Pope Benedict XVI lifted the normal five-year waiting period to begin her canonization process.
Description
"It was a lady dressed all in white, more brilliant than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal glass filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun."
Approval
On October 13, 1930, Dom Jose Alves Correia da Silva, Bishop of the Diocese of Leiria-Fatima announced the results of the Investigative Commission, declaring the apparitions "worthy of belief". Every Pope since the apparitions has expressed approval of the supernatural character and stressed the importance of the messages of Fatima.
Click here to read the 1930 statement of approval.
On May 13, 2000, Pope John Paul II beatified the two deceased seers, Jacinta and Francisco. He has also made the Feast day of Our Lady of Fatima universal by ordering it to be included in the Roman Missal. In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the normal five-year waiting period to begin the canonization process of Sr. Lucia dos Santos.
In Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II expressed his belief in Fatima this way: "And what are we to say of the three children from Fatima? …They could not have invented these predictions. They did not know enough about history or geography, much less about social movements and ideological developments. And nevertheless it happened just as they said."
The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima is May 13th.
Prayers
Dearest Mother, Queen of the Holy Rosary, who came to Fatima to reveal to all mankind the Divine plan for true Christian peace, of prayer, penance, and consecration, grant an abundance of grace, strength, and guidance to the members of Thy Fatima Crusade, here present and throughout the world. Inspire us to great zeal, oh great Mediatrix of All Graces, that we may be effective instruments in spreading devotion to Thy Rosary; that we may be faithful in wearing Thy scapular; that we may inspire our brothers in Christ to a life of sacrifice, penance, and modesty, and finally, that we may help to bring about that wonderful day when all men, through consecration to Thy Immaculate Heart, shall be one in Christ. Amen.