The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

 An excerpt from Finding Grace;  Grace's musings on  Fatima after she learns that her elderly neighbors  are Holocaust survivors:
          And something was nagging at the back of her mind.  What dire warning had Mary given to Francisco and Jacinta Marto and Lucy Santos, the three peasant children to whom She'd appeared at Fatima?  Wasn't it that there would be a terrible war, worse than the most recent one the world had witnessed?  Our Blessed Mother had appeared to the three Portuguese children in 1917, not long after the Great War, the "War to End All Wars": World War I.  Through three poor, humble, young shepherds, the Mother of God had sought to warn the people of the world that if they didn't change their ways and consecrate themselves to Her Immaculate Heart, an even more terrible holocaust would be visited on the earth.
          The horrible chastisement to which She referred was World War II!
          Aside from just the testimonies of the three children, there was tangible physical evidence that the visions were authentic: Mary had promised and then performed a spectacular miracle, "The Miracle of the Sun," and it had been seen by at least 70,000 people.  The sun had turned colors and danced in the sky, and then appeared to be crashing toward the earth as these awestruck witnesses cowered in fear.  After that irrefutable proof that the children had been telling the truth, how could anyone still insist on disregarding the words that Our Lady had communicated to the world through the three little seers?
          And if only people had heeded Mary's words!  Click here to read the full post.