All content on this page was researched and written by Fr. Frank Lomica and Claudia Williams in 2017. Permission to reproduce must be requested from Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Parish in Lakewood, CO.

1. All the time Our Lady was visiting the children, they really weren't sure exactly who she was. They called her "the Beautiful Lady from Heaven". During Our Lady's last visit, Lucia asked her, "Won't you tell us who you are?" What did the Lady answer?
ANSWER: I am the Lady of the Rosary.

2. On Our Lady's final visit to the children at Fatima, she kept the promise she made to Lucia to work a great miracle to help the people believe. What was the date of Our Lady's last visit and the great miracle?
ANSWER: October 13th

3. The Blessed Mother made the sun spin like a huge top! As the sun turned round, it radiated beautiful colors of every sort like a sparkler on the 4th of July. Then the sun began to move back and forth across the sky like a great pendulum. What do we call this great miracle today?
ANSWER: "The Day the Sun Danced", or "The Miracle of the Sun"

4. What work of art in our church shows what happened to the sun on that day?
ANSWER: The stained glass across the west side of the church.

5. There were many thousands of people at Fatima that day to see the great miracle Our Lady promised to perform. While the huge crowd of people was watching the sun, the three children, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, saw something very special just for them! What did they see?
ANSWER: They saw living pictures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

6. Jesus' Mother, the Virgin Mary, is Our Lady of the Rosary, and she asks us to pray the Rosary every day to bring peace to the world. While we pray the Rosary we are to think about all the things Jesus and Mary did while they were here with us on earth. These are called the Mysteries of the Rosary. What are 2 of these Mysteries?
ANSWER: Name any of the 20

1. The "3 Secrets of Fatima" were told to the children by Our Lady during the July apparition. The first secret is a vision of hell she showed to the children. She wants us to know that hell is real and that, sadly, many people go there. Our Lady makes it very clear that peace in the world is directly tied to the conversion of sinners. This is why it is so important that we pray and offer sacrifices for the conversion of sinners. What chastisement did she say was the result of sin?
ANSWER: War

2. The second secret has two parts. In the first part, Our Lady told them something would prevent another war (World War II) and prevent the spread of Russian errors. In 1925, she appeared to Sister Lucia with the Christ Child to ask for the spread of what devotion?
ANSWER: Devotion of the 5 First Saturdays

3. The second part of the second secret is that Our Lady would come again to ask for the Holy Father, in union with all the bishops of the world, to make a consecration to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart in order to prevent Russia "from spreading her errors". She appeared to Sister Lucia in 1929 as she promised. What did Our Lady say would be the fruit of the consecration?
ANSWER: The conversion of Russia and a time of peace.

4. What were the errors that Our Lord and Our Lady were so concerned about?
ANSWER: Communism

5. The consecration to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart was not done until 1984. The Holy Father lived under Russian rule and was therefore well aware of the dangers to humanity of "Russian errors". Who was this Holy Father?
ANSWER: Pope John Paul II

6. The third secret of Fatima was another vision that Our Lady gave to Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco during the July apparition. The beginning of the vision shows an angel with a flaming sword threatening the earth with chastisement and calling out "Penance. Penance. Penance." But the flames are extinguished by what occurrence?
ANSWER: The intercession of the Blessed Mother.

1. As we saw in the last set of questions, Our Lord and Our Lady were very concerned about the spread of Russian errors throughout the world and gave us two ways to prevent that spread: the 5 First Saturday Devotion, and the consecration of Russia to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart. It is significant to note that the Bolshevik Revolution began in October 1917 during the time when Our Lady was visiting Fatima. Name the philosophy, and briefly define it, to which Our Lord and Our Lady refer as "errors". Contemplate how these errors have affected your life.
ANSWER: Communism - a materialistic philosophy that denies the existence of God and therefore rejects the God-given freedom and dignity of every human person, reducing man to a slave of the state.

2. Consistent with this dangerous philosophy, in 1920, Russia became the first country in the world to legalize what horrendous practice?
ANSWER: Abortion

3. At Fatima, Our Lady predicted "this war will end but, if my requests are not heard and men do not amend their lives, not much time will pass and another more terrible war will begin". What war was ongoing at the time of the Fatima apparitions, when did it begin and end, and what was the death toll?
ANSWER: World War I began in the summer of 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, with a death toll of 20 million.

4. Our Lady told the children that a great sign would appear in the night sky announcing the beginning of the next chastisement (War). The sign was great indeed. All over Europe, a "crimson fire" filled the night sky causing people to call out the fire brigades in fear that something huge was burning. The world called it an aurora borealis, but Sister Lucia wrote that this was the sign that chastisement was near. When did it occur and what happened 3 months later setting into motion the next war?
ANSWER: It occurred on the night of January 25, 1938. On March 12, 1938, Hitler declared the annexation of Austria into Germany.

5. What was the next war, when did it begin and end, what was the death toll, and what is the significance of the ending date?
ANSWER: World War II began when Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1938 and ended on August 15, 1945. The death toll surpassed 65 million. August 15th is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.

6. The Lord God never leaves pain and tragedy as the final word. He always ends on a hope-filled note. What was Our Lady's final prediction at Fatima? Do you think this has happened, or are we still to look forward to it?
ANSWER: "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph."