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...strike of lightning, illuminating everything.") His devotion to the Virgin Mary, to whom his personal motto--Totus tuus (All yours)--referred, was lifelong, and he was known to prostrate himself before her statues. Since the shooting occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin near Fatima in Portugal, he was convinced he owed his life to her. He made a pilgrimage of thanks to Fatima, and the near fatal bullet was fitted into a jeweled crown worn by her statue. In 1983, out of the same wellspring of faith, emerged an act of stunning virtue: his forgiveness...
...WONDERFUL TO SEE MARY ON TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place of Jesus. Discussing her role as intercessor, however, without mentioning her apparitions and the miracles associated with her at Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe and other locations is akin to discussing Christ without mentioning his Passion...
McCaffery’s three with 15:53 left—just the second Harvard field goal of the half—pulled the Crimson within five at 34-29. And when the Dartmouth lead swelled to 47-33 on two free throws by guard Fatima Kamara, McCaffery again bailed out the struggling Crimson offense with a big three-pointer...
DIED. SISTER LUCIA DE JESUS DOS SANTOS, 97, the last survivor of three children who claimed in 1917 to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary near the Portuguese village of Fatima, which has become a pilgrimage site for millions annually; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. At age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th day of every month from May through October. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them...
...DIED. SISTER LUCIA DE JESUS DOS SANTOS, 97, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in apparitions near the Portugese village of Fatima, since then a pilgrimage site for millions; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1917, at age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th of every month for five months. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them "worthy of belief...