You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.

This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,

an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute, and joining me today, we have a very special guest,

Sister Marie Stella, and from the Sisters of Life. And they me today, we have a very special guest, Sister Marie Stella,

and from the Sisters of Life. And they have a wonderful house here in Denver. They're also,

their mother houses in New York. And we're blessed to have six of them here in Denver. And we have

a special topic today. Of course, today is the anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima and the events that happened in Fatima

103 years ago. It's hard to believe that it was that long ago, but what happened in Fatima,

basically in 1917 was going to be the key revelation, the key date that Our lady appeared to these three young children who

were under the age of 10 and these three young children are given an incredible

prophecy and an incredible revelation and Mary the Blessed Mother appears to these

three children with a very important message and of course the setting for

Fatima is going to be these apparitions are going to start

on May 13th, of 1917, and they're going to last for the next six months.

On the 13th day of each of those next six months, our lady is going to appear to these children

with important messages for the world, not just for these children, not just for what happens

to these children in Portugal just for what happens these children

in Portugal, because Fatima is a small, humble little town in Portugal.

And so when you think about that part of, you know, Portugal, which borders Spain, right

there in Europe, what was happening at that time was the First World War, had been raging

for a number of years. And it was the First World War, had been raging for a number of years,

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