Virgin Of Fatima Analysis

The Virgin of Fatima is one of the many images of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church. Virgin Fatima was able to send messages to the church by letting three children see her and her messages with them. The Virgin of Fatima’s messages have been kept by the church, but now recently they have been revealed and are said to be visions for the events involving the church. Lady of Fatima is known throughout the world because of her apparitions and messages, especially in a town called Fatima and through the festivities on the anniversary of her first apparition.
The Virgin of Fatima made her first apparition in a small town near Portugal, which is now called Fatima, on May 13, 1917 (Ross 299). The story of her apparition begins with three children seeing a woman’ figure brighter than the sun. Lucia Dos Santos, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto were visited by Lady of Fatima every thirteenth for the next five months. In one of her visits she told them “Do you wish to offer yourselves to God on order to accept all the sufferings he wished to send you, in reparation for sin and for the conversion of sinners?” (Ross 299). Because the children were so young the townspeople would mock the children and their mission from God. One day in disbelief the townsfolk followed the children to the site where the previous apparitions had been happening. With their arrival they were welcomed by a disk “The disk began to spin, throwing off sparks of light. …show more content…
She is celebrated and followed by many. Her messages to Lucia Dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto are being studied and are kept in secrecy to the world. She is the image of world peace. Pope John Paul II had Lady Fatima’s image made great by completing her plea of the consecrating the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady of Fatima has many followers around the world. Her message of peace will continue to live the Roman Catholic Church