Pope Francis canonized Francisco and his sister Jacinta together in 2017 during the centennial celebration of the Fatima apparitions. The three children of Fátima — from left to right: St. Jacinta ...

The two young children, along with their cousin Lucia, witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary beginning on May 13, 1917. Above, the canonization Mass for Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto on May 13, ...

I've often wondered why Jacinta and Francisco, the young shepherd children who witnessed Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima, were always so sullen in photos. I mean, they got to meet Jesus’ Mother ...

FATIMA, Portugal -- Pope Francis added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints Saturday, honoring young siblings whose reported visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago ...

FATIMA, Portugal – Three shepherd children in Portugal were jailed and threatened with being boiled alive in olive oil when they claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to them 100 years ago. The Catholic ...

The two Fatima saints — Sts. Jacinta and Francisco Marto — worked miracles while they were alive. We know about some of the miracles that came through the intercession of this sister and brother, ...

Pope Francis has canonised two shepherd children at the Fatima shrine in Portugal, watched by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. “We declare the blissful Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto saints,” the ...

At Mass on the solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima for the centenary of the apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima today, Pope Francis proclaimed Blessed Jacinta and Francisco ...

When the Lady opened her hands, light from it penetrated the earth. Lucia de Jesus dos Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, saw a sea of fire. Devils and souls with human forms emerged ...