Our Lady of Fatima Centennial Celebration

October 15th 

 One hundred years ago, on October 13, 1917 God worked a spectacular miracle in Fatima, Portugal to prove that Our Lady was appearing to three young shepherd children with an important everlasting message. This miracle took place in front of 70,000 people including government officials and newspaper reporters, all of whom testified to the  miracle’s authenticity. Two secular newspapers gave complete accounts of the miracle as witnessed by their reporters. In celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Our Lady’s Fatima apparitions and “The Miracle of the Sun”, the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima Statue will be touring our Archdiocese. This historic centennial event is being sponsored by the World Apostolate of Fatima. 

The Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima statue was designed as she appeared in 1929 to Sr. Lucia in Tuy, Spain. It was during this apparition that Our Lady asked for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart. This statue was blessed by Pope Francis on October 23, 2013, 10 days after his consecration of the world to Our Lady of Fatima on October 13th. It was formally introduced at the 2014 March for Life in Washington, D.C., and was present soon after in Oregon at the consecration of the Archdiocese of Portland on June 28th, 2014, by Archbishop Alexander Sample. 

On Sunday October 15th, 2017, the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima statue will be at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Aloha, Oregon from 7:30AM – 6:00PM. All are invited and encouraged to come see this beautiful Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima and to learn Our Lady's message of Peace and Hope.  For more information on the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima Statue Tour visit www.materdeiradio.com, email: brenda.wafpdx@frontier.com, or call 503-914-8411.