Our Lady of Fátima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. José Alves Correia da Silva, Bishop of Leiria, declared the events worthy of belief on 13 October 1930.
The canonically crowned image enshrined within the Chapel of the Apparitions
Lúcia dos Santos (left) with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, 1917
Monument of the Guardian Angel of Portugal apparition to the three little shepherd children of Fátima.
The Parish Church of Fátima where the three children who saw the apparition were baptized.
Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles, epithets, invocations, and several names associated with places.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Byzantine icon, possibly 13th or 14th century
Dormition of the Mother of God 10th c. ivory plaque, Cluny
Madonna and Child among Ethiopian saints, Ethiopia mid 17th c.
Copy of Our Lady of Mercy from Lwów Cathedral before which John II Casimir Vasa first made vows to Mary, "Queen of Poland and Lithuania in 1656
