The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima is a Warner color feature film made in 1952. It was promoted as a factbased treatment of the events surrounding the apparitions of Our Lady of Ftima in 1917.

It is 1917, and Portugal is feeling the aftereffects of a storm of antireligious sentiment and the violent overthrow of the government in theOctober 1910 revolution. Churches in Lisbon are boarded up. Many priests, nuns, monks and friars are shown being fingerprinted, photographed and registered as possible criminals before being jailed. The rural town of Fatima is small enough to have escaped much of this persecution their church remains open, and most of the people are reasonably devout.Watching their flocks and playing in a field outside town on Maythe actual date of the first apparition was May 13, Lcia Santos Susan Whitney and her cousins Jacinta Marto Sherry Jackson and Francisco Marto Sammy Ogg decide to pray their version of the Rosary by yelling out, Hail Mary but not finishing the prayer. In the midst of this activity they hear a clap of thunder and see a flash of lightning. Thinking it is about to rain, the children gather their sheep and head for home. Another flash of lightning causes them to run straight into an unusual cloud of light surrounding a little tree on which a lady stands. Speaking slowly and gently, the lady asks them to return on the 13th of each month and to offer their sufferings to God for the salvation of sinners. She entreats them to say the Rosary for world peace. Later, they encounter their agnostic friend Hugo Gilbert Roland who tells them it is best not to reveal the vision to anyone else, but of course on returning home, Jacinta immediately divulges her sightings. ........

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