Historical Event · 1917

What Did 70,000 People See at Fátima in 1917?

It is the morning of October 13th, 1917, in a muddy pasture in central Portugal. Seventy thousand people are standing in cold rain, looking up at a sky they cannot see. They are there because three children — aged ten, nine, and seven — have predicted that today, at noon, a miracle will happen.

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