Our Lady of Fatima. Credit: Ricardo Perna / Shutterstock.

Our Lady of Fatima. Credit: Ricardo Perna / Shutterstock.

It’s the most popular and well-known Marian apparition in the recent history of the Church.

Here is a ZENIT translation of the address Pope Francis gave today before praying the midday Regina Coeli in St. Peter’s Square. He spoke these words at the end of the audience with the “Azione Cattolica Italiana” on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its foundation.

Every local bishop since has approved the apparitions and deemed them worthy of belief, the highest recognition a Marian apparition can receive from the Church.

Miracle researcher Michael O’Neill told CNA that the Fatima apparitions could be considered the “gold standard of Marian apparitions.”

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