Miracles at both shrines show how God uses simple elements — just as he did in Scripture — to bring healing and conversion.

Between May and October 1917, Our Lady appeared six times to three young Portuguese children in a field called the Cova de Iria, near the small village of Fatima, about seventy miles north of Lisbon.

Then, on May 13, 1917, a shining Lady appeared to three little shepherds ... On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, the ecclesiastical authority judged the ...

The children were told by Our Lady that God would perform a miracle so that people would believe in the apparitions. The date the children was October 13, 1917, in Fatima. On that date ...