Great Fatima

(On the 97th anniversary of the final vision, Oct. 13)

Why did they build a great basilica,
for what three children told in Portugal,
requested by Our Lady of Fatima,
sealed by a great gigantic miracle?*

St. John Paul’s bullet rests within her crown,
shot her first vision day--thirteenth of May,
the great crowd saw her dancing sun come down
October thirteenth, her last vision day.

Thousands of miracles come to her shrine,
the Church proves most of them, her visions too,
both show her help is by divine design,
as her predictions one-by-one come true.

Your Fatima, O Mary, is so great,
the anniversary days still resonate.

* The miracle of the sun became a story in the N.Y. Times.

                     by Pete Voelz     10/13/14