Red Hats and Hinges

May 13 is the day on which Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is said to have appeared in a vision to three children in the poor and remote village of Fatima, in Portugal, in 1917, in a series of apparitions that predicted the bloodshed of the coming decades of this century.

In those apparitions in 1917, six months before the Bolshevik Revolution, Our Lady was reported already to be focusing upon terrible events to occur in Russia, upon a mortal threat to the human race, and upon —surprisingly to some—an impending spiritual renewal within Russia.

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Michael Novak

Michael Novak was a Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.

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May 13 is the day on which Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is said to have appeared in a vision to three children in the poor and remote village of Fatima, in Portugal, in 1917, in a series of apparitions that predicted the bloodshed of the coming decades of this century.

In those apparitions in 1917, six months before the Bolshevik Revolution, Our Lady was reported already to be focusing upon terrible events to occur in Russia, upon a mortal threat to the human race, and upon —surprisingly to some—an impending spiritual renewal within Russia.