Writes Tim McGraw:
Today is the feast day of the Apparition of Mary to the three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, 108 years ago. A parade of over 100 faithful just went by our house. They were all holding lights, maybe their smartphones, and singing Ave Maria. They stood in the middle of Tucker Street in front of the entrance to the school and listened to a prayer. More praying. Then, more singing.
We’ve never seen this before here in Healdsburg. All this is happening 30 yards from our door. We’ve seen the Mexicans carrying the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe around the block and singing on that feast day, but not for the Apparition of Mary.
Back in May of 1917, Mary told the three children that people had to pray the rosary to end WWI. There was the usual controversy. One official even locked up the children for a while. Typical. The first Portuguese soldiers were just then going off to war, and the bureaucrat thought the children were being political.
Two of the children died soon after in the flu epidemic. Lucy became a nun and lived to 97. She had visions all her life. After Lucy died, her cell was walled up as part of her canonization as a saint.
Our Lady of Fatima, May 13th, 1917
12:24 pm on May 14, 2025