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Silent apparitions of the Angel to Lucia and other friends.
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Three apparitions of the Angel of Portugal to Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta;
twice at Loca do Cabeco when he gave the children Holy Communion, and once
at the Well behind Lucia’s home.
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Six apparitions of Our Lady from May through October to Lucia, Francisco,
and Jacinta.
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April 4th , Francisco dies at 10:00 in the morning in his home in Aljustrel.
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February 20th, Jacinta dies alone in Estefania Hospital in Lisbon, as Our Lady
predicted in 1917.
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June 15th, one final apparition in Fatima to Lucia by Our Lady when Lucia was
secretly on her way out of town to Porto.
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December 10th , Our Lady and Jesus appeared to Sr. Lucia in Pontevedre,
Spain to give her the First Saturday Devotion.
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February 15th, in the courtyard in her convent in Pontevedre, Jesus appears
to Sr. Lucia to discuss if she has done what Our Lady requested, to spread in
the world a devotion to the Immaculate Heart of His Mother.
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June 13th, Sister Lucia receives the vision of the Holy Trinity and Our Lady
asks for the Consecration in the Dorothean Convent in Tuy, Spain.
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September 12th, Jacinta’s body is exhumed from the Vila Nova de Ourem
Cemetery and found to be incorrupt. This fact moved the Bishop to order
Sister Lucia to write everything she could remember about Jacinta’s life.
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November 7th through 21st, the Bishop of Leiria, became convinced that the
Fatima events of 1917 had to be studied more deeply and ordered Sister
Lucia to write the history of her life and the apparitions just as they
happened. This manuscript is the Second Memoir.
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August 31st, the Third Memoir appears in obedience to elucidate some details
of Jacinta’s life.
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December 8th, the Fourth Memoir of Sister Lucia is presented in writing in
response to the order of the Bishop on October 7th.
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May 13th, Pius XII crowns the image of Our Lady of Fatima and proclaims her
“Queen of the World.”
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March 25th, Sister Lucia enters the cloistered Carmelite Convent of St.
Teresa in Coimbra, Portugal.
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December 13th, Pope John XXIII institutes the feast of Our Lady of the
Rosary, in honor of Our Lady of Fatima.
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May 13th, Paul VI sends a Golden Rose to Fatima, confiding the “entire
Church” to Our Lady’s protection.
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March 25th, in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II,
performs a valid Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as was
requested by Our Lady to Sr. Lucia in 1929 in her convent in Tuy, Spain.
Sister Lucia has confirmed that heaven accepted this consecration.
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May 13th, Jacinta and Francisco are declared venerable by the Holy See.
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May 13th, Pope John Paul II beatifies Jacinta and Francisco in Fatima and
declares that February 20th, the day of Jacinta’s death, will be the
Liturgical Feast Day of Blessed Jacinta and Blessed Francisco.
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February 13th, Sister Lucia dies in her convent in Coimbra at the age of 97.
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February 19th, Sister Lucia’s body is moved from the convent in Coimbra to
the Basilica in Fatima, one day before the feast of her cousins, Blessed
Jacinta and Blessed Francisco.
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On February 13th, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will dispense with
the five year waiting period established by Canon Law to open the cause of
beatification of Sister Lucia. The news was announced in the Cathedral of
Coimbra, Portugal by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the
Congregation for Saints’ Causes, on the third anniversary of Sister Lucia’s
death.
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