The Most Famous Visions Of Jesus And Mary In History

In 1916, three poor children herding sheep near Ftima, Portugal, said they were visited by an angel. The trio, including nine-year-oldLcia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, maintained that they were visited by an angel three times, says EWTN. The heavenly being told them to adore the Lord and pray.

In 1916, three poor children herding sheep near Fátima, Portugal, said they were visited by an angel. The trio, including nine-year-old Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, maintained that they were visited by an angel three times, says EWTN. The heavenly being told them to adore the Lord and pray.

In the spring of 1917, the children began to tell others that they had also been visited by a "Lady more brilliant than the sun," reports When the Sun Danced. The "Lady" told them she was from heaven and that she needed them to pray every day in order to end the war. World War I, then ravaging Europe, wouldn't end until late 1918.

Word of the apparitions soon got out to the entire village. This all culminated in what was supposed to be the last apparition on October 13, 1917. A crowd of thousands of people gathered in Fátima. Some witnessed the "miracle of the sun," says When the Sun Danced, where the light turned strange and the sun whirled about the sky. Yet some, including believers, reports EWTN, witnessed only odd lights or nothing at all.

Afterward, says the Catholic News Agency, Francisco and Jacinta died of influenza. Lúcia, who lived be 97, became a Carmelite nun and published her memoirs, Fátima in Lúcia's Own Words.

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