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In April 1917, 9-year-old Lúcia dos Santos and 2 of her cousins were herding sheep near Aljustrel in the parish of Fátima, Portugal, when they began seeing apparitions of the Anjo da Paz (the Angel of Peace). In 3 visitations who instructed them in their religious duties. In May, Mary the mother of Jesus, who "brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun." On 13 July they were shown a vision of Hell and given predictions that the pope would be assassinated and that World War I would end but be followed by a worse one, which would be presaged by a night illuminated by an unknown light. (A month before Adolf Hitler annexed Austria, the widest occurrence of the aurora borealis since 1709 appeared over much of the northern hemisphere.) On 13 October they were joined by thousands, who saw visions of Mary in various guises as well as her husband Joseph and her son Jesus; the sun danced in the sky and cast multicolored lights. The 2 cousins died in the influenza epidemic that followed World War I (they were canonized in 2017). At 14 Lúcia was sent to a Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, Spain, where she experienced 2 new visions on 10 Decemeber 1925 and 15 February 1926, both of which promoted the devotion of Mary on 5 consecutive 1st Saturdays of the month. The 2nd apparition occurred while she was emptying a garbage can outside the convent garden; she began talking to a child she thought she recognized, who then transformed into Jesus and reprimanded her for not doing more to promote the First Saturdays.
In April 1917, 9-year-old Lúcia dos Santos and 2 of her cousins were herding sheep near Aljustrel in the parish of Fátima, Portugal, when they began seeing apparitions of the Anjo da Paz (the Angel of Peace). In 3 visitations who instructed them in their religious duties. In May, Mary the mother of Jesus, who "brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun." On 13 July they were shown a vision of Hell and given predictions that the pope would be assassinated and that World War I would end but be followed by a worse one, which would be presaged by a night illuminated by an unknown light. (A month before Adolf Hitler annexed Austria, the widest occurrence of the aurora borealis since 1709 appeared over much of the northern hemisphere.) On 13 October they were joined by thousands, who saw visions of Mary in various guises as well as her husband Joseph and her son Jesus; the sun danced in the sky and cast multicolored lights. The 2 cousins died in the influenza epidemic that followed World War I (they were canonized in 2017). At 14 Lúcia was sent to a Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, Spain, where she experienced 2 new visions on 10 Decemeber 1925 and 15 February 1926, both of which promoted the devotion of Mary on 5 consecutive 1st Saturdays of the month. The 2nd apparition occurred while she was emptying a garbage can outside the convent garden; she began talking to a child she thought she recognized, who then transformed into Jesus and reprimanded her for not doing more to promote the First Saturdays.
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