“On December 10, 1925, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Fatima, with the Infant Jesus at her side resting on a bright cloud, appeared to the Venerable Servant of God Lucia dos Santos, the surviving shepherd child of Fatima, who was, at the time, a Postulant with the Sisters of Saint Dorothy in Pontevedra, Spain… To prepare for the celebration of the centennial, I invite you to join me in nine weeks of prayer, beginning on this coming October 8^th and ending on this coming December 10^th, the 100^th Anniversary of the apparition at Pontevedra.”

—Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke