Fatima Children

Fatima Children

The three sheperd children who reportedly witnessend the Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917.
Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Tragically only Lucia lived more than 3 years after the sightings, her cousins were both victims of the Great Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1919

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Once a tiny village in the hills of Santarém between Lisbon and Oporto, Fátima is now town of around 10,000 people globally renowned for the religious visions which took place here in 1917 and which have made it an important pilgrimage centre for the Catholic faith. Interestingly, given its now super strong links to the Catholic Church, name Fátima itself originates from a Moorish girl’s name…