Celebrating Our Lady of Fatima in the Diocese of Providence

By RICK SNIZEK, Executive Editor, RI Catholic

PROVIDENCE - On Saturday, as Pope Francis canonized at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, Portugal, two of the local shepherd children who first witnessed the appearance of the Blessed Mother at the site in 1917, more than 1,000 pilgrims joined in a grand procession into the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Providence as Bishop Thomas J. Tobin marked the centenary of the Fatima apparitions. More.