The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared 6 times to 3 shepherd children; Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta; between May 13 and October 13, 1917. She came to the little village of Fatima ...

Fatima, Portugal: The three shepherd children said the Virgin Mary appeared to them six times in 1917 and confided to them three secrets. The first two described an apocalyptic image of hell ...

The other main stop for pilgrims to Fatima is the Chapel of Apparitions ... over the site of a small holm oak tree over which the Virgin Mary appeared on May 13, 1917. That oak fell victim ...

Portugal who report seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. Their revelations inspire believers but anger officials of both the Church and secular government, who try to force them to recant their story.

That has been the case for the purported apparitions of Mary that turned Fatima ... to an Indigenous man in Mexico in 1531, and Our Lady of Fatima, who believers say appeared to three illiterate ...