Our Lady of Fatima - Virgin of Fatima

Image of Our Lady of Fatima

• Manufactured pulp wood.
• Our Lady of Fatima for sale in 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 80 cm.
• Cristal eyes.
• Imitation marble base.
• Sale price includes golden metal halo.
• Does not include seers.
• Made according to the artisan methods of the image makers of the end of the s. XIX.

Our Lady of Fatima, image information

The Virgin of Fátima (also known as Our Lady of Fátima, Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima, or Nossa Senhora de Fátima in Portuguese) is a Marian dedication of great tradition and devotion throughout the Iberian Peninsula, both in Spain and in Portugal. numerous temples dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima.
The image of Nossa Senhora de Fátima appeared to three shepherd children in Fátima, Lucía dos Santos, ten years old, and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, six and nine years old respectively, for the first time on May 13, the date that in which the festivity of the Virgin of Fatima was established.
After the first apparition, Our Lady of Fatima told the three shepherds to return to the same place on the thirteenth of each month for six consecutive months, from May 13 to October 13, 1917.
On the following occasions that they visited the place where the image appeared, the children were followed by thousands of people who went to the place to admire the Virgin.
During the period that the apparitions took place, Our Lady of Fátima offered the pastors and the devotees who accompanied them numerous prophecies and recommendations and three messages known as The Three Secrets of Fátima .
Among the most important predictions, Nossa Senhora de Fátima announced the end of the First World War and the death of Francisco and Jacinta, who died a few years after the first apparition of the Virgin. Both are blessed of the Catholic Church.
Among the recommendations, the Virgin gave special importance to the prayer of the Rosary for the conversion of the sinners of the world. Our Lady of Fatima also requested the construction of a chapel on the site of the apparition. This small chapel, over time, became the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary , which can currently be visited in the town of Fátima.

The Three Secrets of the Virgin of Fatima

The messages that the Virgin of Fatima delivered to the children, known as The Three Secrets of Fatima, were:

• First Secret of the Virgin of Fatima

The first secret of Fatima showed a vision of hell.

• Second Secret of the Virgin of Fatima

The second secret talks about the reconversion of the world to Christianity. Secret that many scholars have related to the progressive conversion that occurred in Russia following the fall of the USSR in 1990.

• Third Secret of the Virgin of Fatima

The third secret was not made public until June 26, 2000 when Pope John Paul II made it known precisely in Fatima. In the text appears "a Bishop dressed in White" that "a group of soldiers who fired several shots at him", which is related to the attack that Pope John Paul II suffered at the hands of Ali Agca on May 13 1981. (64th anniversary of the first apparition of Fatima).

Third Secret of Fatima, transcribed by Sister Lucia on January 3, 1944 and made public by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, on May 13, 2000.
"I write in obedience to You, my God, who ordained it through His Most Reverend Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and your and mine Most Holy Mother.
"After the two parts that I have already exposed, we have seen on the left side of Our Lady, a little higher up, an Angel with a sword of fire in his left hand; sparkling, he emitted flames that seemed to set the world on fire; but they were extinguished in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated with her right hand directed towards him; the Angel, pointing to the earth with his right hand, said with a loud voice: Penance, Penance, Penance! And we saw in an immense light what God is : "something similar to how people look in a mirror when they pass before it" to a Bishop dressed in White "we had the feeling that it was the Holy Father". Also to other Bishops, priests, men and women religious climbing a mountain steep, on whose summit there was a great Cross of rough timbers as if they were cork oaks with the bark; the Holy Father, before reaching it, crossed a great city half in ruins and half trembling with unsteady steps, sorrowful of pain. prayer and sorrow, praying for the souls of the corpses he found along the way; reached the top of the mountain, prostrate on his knees at the foot of the great Cross, he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired several shots at him from firearms and arrows; and in the same way, Bishops, priests, men and women religious, and various lay people, men and women of various classes and positions, died one after another. Under the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a glass jug in hand, in which they collected the blood of the Martyrs and sprinkled with it the souls that approached God.