Our lady oF Fatima Series

The First Apparition of Our Lady

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Eight days later, on May 13, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, were tending their sheep,

Lucia, age 10

Francisco, age 9

and Jacinta, age 7,

““Shall I go to Heaven too?” asked Lucia.Shall I go to Heaven too?” asked Lucia.““Yes, you will.”Yes, you will.”““And Jacinta?”And Jacinta?”““Also.”Also.”““And Francisco?”And Francisco?”““Also. But he will have to say many Rosaries!”Also. But he will have to say many Rosaries!”

Lucia then asked about two friends who recently died.“Is Maria da Neves now in Heaven?”“Yes, she is.”“And Amelia?”“She will be in Purgatory until the end of the world.”“Do you wish to offer yourselves to God, to endure all the suffering that He may be pleased to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and to ask the conversion of sinners?”“Yes we do,” replied Lucia.

“But the grace of God will be your comfort.”Marienfried.com“Then you will have much to suffer.”

After saying this, she disappeared.

“Say the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war.”