(Photo: Reuters/Agencja Gazeta/Jacek Smoter)An image of Pope John Paul II is projected during a multimedia show a night before his canonization, in Krakow, Poland, April 26, 2014.
Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.
Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, telling tribulations, inspirational progress, and everything in between.
Here are just a few things that happened this week, May 13-19, in Church history. They include the first showing of the musical Godspell, the birth of Pope John Paul II, and the first reported sighting of Our Lady of Fatima.
The First ‘Our Lady of Fatima’ Sighting Reported – May 13, 1917
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(Photo: public domain)Lúcia Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto, and , the three children who claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to in a series of visions in Fátima, Portugal during the First World War.
This week marks the anniversary of when three children in Portugal claimed to have had their first encounter with an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
Lucia Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto explained that they were playing on a property located near Fatima named Cova da…
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