Religious painting - The secrets of the Virgin of Fatima

Religious painting - The secrets of Fatima

• Marian-themed painting.
• 22cm Wide.
• Memory of Fatima with 33.50 cm. Tall.
• Contour decorated with gold leaf and bas-relief elements.
• Box with a rectangular bottom topped with a red circle.
• Ogival arch-shaped top.

Fatima Painting - The Secrets of Fatima are revealed

The central part of the painting is decorated with a plate that reproduces the classic scene of the appearance of the image of the Virgin of Fátima .

In the scene we can highlight three elements:

The image of the Virgin of Fatima

The apparition of the Virgin in Fatima is one of the most important throughout the s. XX. The Virgin Mary appears in the Cova da Iria, in the parish of Fátima, municipality of Ourém, Portugal.

In this painting the Virgin of Fatima is represented with a white dress and a white mantle with golden embroidery. Mary is barefoot on a cloud and looks tenderly at the little shepherds she has chosen to show herself. To the three shepherds he will reveal what is known as the Secret of Fatima.

The three seer shepherds of the Virgin of Fatima

The three seer shepherds of the Virgin of Fatima were of very humble condition. Lucía de Jesús de los Santos, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto witnessed the apparitions of the Virgin in Fatima on numerous occasions during the year 1917.

Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto , they were brothers, they died a few years after having seen the Virgin Mary. Francisco died in the year 1919. Jacinta passed away on February 20, 1920. Francisco and Jacinta were beatified by John Paul II on May 13, 2000 during their visit to the Sanctuary of Fatima.

Lucía de Jesús de los Santos , was the longest-lived seer. He lived until 2005. After the apparitions of the Virgin in Fatima, he entered the Order of the Discalced Carmelites. Throughout his life he wrote about the Secrets of the Virgin Mary revealed to them in her apparitions in Fatima: The First Secret and the Second Secret were made public in the year 1941. While the Third Secret of Fatima was not revealed until the year 2000.

The Sanctuary of the Virgin of Fatima

The Sanctuary of Fátima , also known as the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima , is located in the Cova da Iria, in the place where the Virgin Mary, during her apparitions, asked the three shepherds to build a church.

The Sanctuary of Fátima is made up of several buildings, among which the Chapel of the Apparitions (or Capelinha das Aparições in Portuguese), the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima , the Church of the Holy Trinity , etc...

Every year thousands of pilgrims walk with devotion to the Sanctuary of Fátima. Especially on May 13, the day of the Virgin of Fátima, the date on which the first apparition of the Virgin is celebrated in the Cova da Iria in 1917.