Happy Feast of Our Lady of Fatima!

In 2017, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima!  That August, my husband Nate and I were able to visit Portugal and receive a Plenary Indulgence as part of our honeymoon! 

I filmed 4 short videos during our visit to Fatima…I was able to visit the places where Mary and the Angel appeared to the children over 100 years ago! What a blessing!

Follow along with our adventure through the videos below!

Part I: Map of Fatima

We didn’t realize before we went just how much distance was between every location. The children lived in Aljustrel, but they took the sheep to different places to graze. And the Blessed Mother appeared usually in the Cova de Iria, but in August she appeared in another location, Valinhos.

NOTE: These little kids were TOUGH!  It is a loooong walk from their home to the Cova!

Part II: Aljustrel – Lucia’s Family House!

Here’s a better picture of Lucia’s home! Later on, you’ll get to see Francisco and Lucia’s family home as well.

Part III: The Chapel of Apparitions, the Holmoak Tree, and the Basilica of the Holy Rosary

Here’s a tiny picture of the Chapel of the Apparitions (in the Cova de Iria).

After the August apparition, Jacinta tore off the branch of the tree upon which the Blessed Mother had stood while she spoke to them. She ran back to Lucia’s home and gave the branch to Lucia’s mother to prove that what they were saying was true. The branch gave off a beautiful scent that was not natural to the plant–guess you could say it was “Heaven-scent” (!).

Part IV: Aljustrel – Jacinta and Francisco’s Family Home

Here’s a better picture of Francisco and Jacinta’s home.

Look at the picture of the children below…anything look familiar! Yep, that wall behind them is the Marto’s house! What a blessing to be able to visit the home where two saints actually lived!

With that, we left to see other sites on our honeymoon (including the catacombs and the Vatican)! Check out our blog archive to see those videos.

You can check out the Glory Story Volume 13 on the Children of Fatima (which I wrote!), coloring pages for your little ones, a Fatima Mysteries book for your older kids, and more.

Click here to browse all of them!  

Now, Nate and I have been happily married for over 2 years, and we have a beautiful daughter together (whom we named Lucia!). Follow Holy Heroes on Facebook or Instagram to see adorable photos of her!

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Virginia has her M.A. in Counseling and currently works as a therapist at a Catholic counseling agency, specializing in working with children (and their parents), teenage girls, and mothers. She also gets some very "hands-on" experience parenting her two young children - who have become Holy Heroes fans! As the eldest of the "Adventure Guides," she has played a big part in developing so many Holy Heroes products and adventures. She wrote the scripts for lots of "Adventure" videos, as well as writing and directing the first "Inside the Sacraments" video (The Holy Eucharist). She wrote Glory Stories Volume 8, "Best-loved Catholic Prayers and Prayers of the Mass," and Volume 13, "Secrets from Heaven - The Story of the Children of Fatima" (her favorite!). Most recently, she co-created the Holy Heroes Spiritual Adoption Adventure with her former college roommate. She continues to enjoy blogging for Holy Heroes.

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