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Many Catholics already know that Mary appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.
But did you know the Angel of Portugal visited the children before Mary appeared?
In 1916, the year before Mary appeared to them, the shepherd children Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco were leading their families’ flocks out to pasture when an angel appeared to them.
“We began to see,” Lucia later wrote in her memoirs, “in the distance, above the trees that stretched to the east, a light whiter than snow in the form of a young man, quite transparent, and as brilliant as crystal in the rays of the sun.”
The angel spoke to them:
“Do not be afraid. I am the angel of peace. Pray with me.”
He and the children knelt down, and they repeated after the angel this prayer:
“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love You.”
When they finished, the angel said this before vanishing:
“Pray in this way. The hearts of Jesus and Mary are ready to listen to you.”
Another day, the same angel appeared to them a second time. Again, he exhorted them to prayer: churchpop.com/angel-message-…
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