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Our Lady of Fátima
Also called: Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima
May 13 (fixed)
Catholic
On 13 May 1917, three shepherd children in Portugal said the Virgin Mary appeared to them with messages of prayer and peace — and 70,000 people later claimed to see the sun dance in the sky. Fátima is now one of the world's most visited shrines, drawing millions of pilgrims each year, especially on the 13th of each month from May to October.
Eden lists pilgrimages to Fátima, Lourdes, and Catholic shrines across Europe.
At a glance
- Type
- memorial
- Date type
- Fixed (same date every year)
- Regions
- Global
- Themes
- Mary
- Liturgical colour
- White
Common questions
Our Lady of Fátima is observed on May 13 (fixed). Moveable feasts shift each year; fixed feasts stay on the same calendar date.
The feast commemorating the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children (Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta) at Fátima, Portugal, on May 13, 1917. The subsequent apparitions and the "Miracle of the Sun" witnessed by 70,000 people on October 13, 1917, made Fátima one of the most celebrated Marian apparition sites in the world. Our Lady of Fátima asked for prayer, penance, consecration
It is associated with Catholic. It falls in the Ordinary Time season of the liturgical year.
