Next year we mark a major anniversary. May 1917 is the centenary of Our Lady’s first apparition to Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, the three shepherd children of Fatima. In all, there were six apparitions in 1917, which culminated on 13 October, 99 years ago today, when a vast crowd which had accompanied the three children witnessed what is known as “the miracle of the sun”.
In CTS's new booklet, The Message and Prayers of Fatima, Timothy Tindal-Robertson introduces the reader to the message and meaning of those remarkable events. I asked Tindal-Robertson, national president of the World Apostolate of Fatima, England and Wales, why he thought Lucia and Blessed Francisco and Jacinta were chosen: having visited their tombs in Fatima, and having witnessed the great devotion to them, I was curious. For Tindal-Robertson, it is because “their hearts and minds were completely open to what was asked of them.”
