The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

7/10/2025

It’s quite interesting that this story of post revolutionary Portugal shows the church as a bastion of freedom when barely a generation before it was the epitome of state control and dogmatic domination! Whilst that wheel has definitely turned as far as the state is concerned, this agrarian population remain as loyal to the faith of their forbears, but not faithful enough and so an apparition visits three young children who visit a secluded cove near their village of Fatima. She communicates the displeasure of God in his flock and suggests that they must suffer to expunge some of mankind’s sins. Enthusiastically, these youngsters agree but when word of their vision spreads, the local church are sceptical and the parents are worried that the authoritarian government will learn of their clai