Aug
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Akita and the Fatima apparations: a message of hope against the present evils
Our Lady of Fatima known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary refers to the Marian apparitions to the three shepherd children in 1917, in Fatima, Portugal. The children were Lucia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Bishop Jose Alves Correia da Silva officially approved the events on October 13, 1930. About the Message of Fatima Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who became Pope Benedict XVI said of the apparitions:
... Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are bound to be disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way, just as Christian faith in general cannot be reduced to an object of mere curiosity.
... Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are bound to be disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way, just as Christian faith in general cannot be reduced to an object of mere curiosity.