Proof Our Lady of Fatima was NOT Mary

Our Lady of Fatima is a Roman Catholic title given to Mary, the mother of Jesus, after three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal witnessed what was believed to be an apparition of Mary.

A bright vision of a lady, only three feet tall, told the children to pray the rosary every day to bring peace to the world and an end to the war.

This was in 1917, and altogether the vision appeared to them six times between May 13th and October 13th.

During that last appearance, many thousands of people claimed to have witnessed the miracle of the sun, in which the sun appeared to dance or zigzag in the sky.

Thousands of others, even among believers, said they saw nothing at all. The lady prophesied to the children, telling them of future events.

She said two of the children would soon be taken to heaven, and indeed the two younger children died a couple years later of the

Spanish flu. She said World War I would soon end, but if people did not stop offending

God, a second worse war would come. And she gave them a prayer and a vision of hell. The thing is, though, these so -called prophecies were not revealed until long after they happened.

Lucia, the oldest of the children, grew up to become a nun, and she did not reveal these secrets until the 1940s.

Lucia herself wrote that she first believed the apparitions were of the devil. And no wonder, scripture says, for even

Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Italian priest John DeMarchi wrote a book called

The Immaculate Heart, the true story of Our Lady of Fatima. And though he celebrated the story as miraculous, he revealed this false prophecy.

The children insisted that the lady told them World War I would end on October 13, 1917.

But it did not end for another 13 months. Whatever Our Lady of Fatima was, it was not

Mary. For the real Mary would not prophesy falsely, nor would she ever tell anyone to pray to her or build her a shrine.

But millions of people journey every year to visit the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, and the legend has had a huge influence on Marian worship.

Jesus said, it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.