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Portugal Wins the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest!
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Please vote for the Portuguese song in Eurovision
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The Portuguese song this year is really incredible. Written by Luísa Sobral and sung by her brother Salvador Sobral, "Amar pelos dois" (Love for the both of us), makes us fly in space and time, feeling the true power of love. If you enjoy the sound and the voice of #Salvadorable, please vote, using the number below, according to the country you're in. Thank you very much!
100 Years of Our Lady of Fátima Apparitions
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Today is a very special day, 100 years ago, three shepherd children experienced the apparition of Our Lady, the
Virgin Mary, at Fátima. The three children were Lúcia Santos and her cousins
Jacinta and Francisco Marto. The apparitions at Fátima were officially declared
worthy of belief by the Catholic Church. Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI,
John Paul II and Benedict XVI voiced their acceptance of the supernatural
origin of the Fátima events. John Paul II credited Our Lady of Fátima with
saving his life following an assassination attempt on the Feast of Our Lady of
Fátima, 1981. He donated the bullet that wounded him to the Roman Catholic
sanctuary at Fátima, Portugal and it was placed in the crown of the Virgin's
statue. On May 13, 1917, Lúcia described
seeing a lady "brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and
stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced
by the burning rays of the sun". While they had never spoken to a…