Lucia And Jacinta's Case: The Story Of Fatima (1917)

Introduction

Miracles are often defined as an event that is unbelievable and unexpected, it can be a series of events and it is usually believed to be caused by godly powers or by unexplainable powers because it doesn’t follow the rules of nature. People who believe in miracles are often people of religion, because they believe its caused by the God they worship whereas people of no religion or strong scientific knowledge would either try to interpret these events with scientific causes or would not even consider them as events but rather as a delusion or events that are made up and had never took place.

The Story of Fatima (1917)

Fig.1 Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta

Source: (Corner, n.d.)

On the 13th of May 1917, an interesting phenomena

The sky flashed with light and the lady appeared. The lady told Lucia to return here on the 13th of next month and to recite the rosary every day and pray for peace and the end of the wars. Lucia asked the lady about her identity and she promised to reveal herself in October and that she will work a miracle that will make the non-believers believe. She had also shared a secret with the children and asked them not to share it with anyway, and the lady had disappeared. Lucia looked sad and people wanted to know what the lady had said, but she insisted on not telling them.

On 13th of August 1917, the civil authourties had prevented the promised meeting and had threatened the children to deny all the pervious events and say that it was an all a lie but the children stood to their promise and kept on insisting that they will only say the truth. They were later released on the 18th of August, and on the next day they have seen the lady when they were pasturing their sheep near the village of Fatima. She asked them to pray constantly and to make sacrifices for the sinners and pray for them and asked them to meet her on the 13th of the next