Question Regarding Our Lady of Fatima

[Dan_Daly]

I have read many places about visions Blessed Jacinto Marto had after the revelations at Fatima.

Such as:

Jacinta was transferred to Lisbon for a surgical intervention especially painful since the sick girl’s weakness did not permit a total anesthesia. Once the operation was over, the dressings made the child suffer horribly. The Most Blessed Virgin came to visit her and took away all her pain. Mary’s face appeared quite sad. «The sins that lead the greatest number of souls to perdition are the sins of the flesh,» she confided to her privileged one. «People must renounce sin and not persist in it, as has been done until now. It is essential to make great penance.» A few days after the operation, complications arose. The evening of February 20, 1920, she made her confession. The priest thought he could wait until the next day to bring her Holy Communion. However, that same night, around ten-thirty, she died peacefully.

I’ve been question regarding the veracity of these claimed later visions. So:

1. Can anyone point to documentation of these later visions being reported near the time they are supposed to have occured?
2. Are these later visions, approved private revelations by the local Bishop?

Thanks for any help. I’m am trying to learn more about the miracles of Fatima, and know there are much more knowledgable people than me hanging around here. Have a great day and God Bless.

Pax!

 

[barb_finnegan]

When Jacinta was in Lisbon, she stayed for a time in an orphanage run by a Franciscan Sister (who went about in lay clothes due to the anti-religious laws of the day) named Mother Godinho. She was called by the orphans under her care, ‘Godmother’, which was adopted by Jacinta as well.

The words of Our Lady which were given to Jacinta in her last days were written down by Mother Godinho. At least that’s how I read it in the books on Fatima which I’ve seen them.

Since these were more or less private and personal, I don’t think they needed a Bishop’s approval, unlike the more well-known apparitions in 1917.