As the answers to these and similar queries show, Fatima trivia are anything but trivial. St. Francisco and his younger sister St. Jacintha were canonized by Pope Francis when he visited Fatima on the centenary of the first apparition this past May 13. In his unique sanctity, St. Francisco lamented the sadness he saw in the unsmiling Blessed Virgin and in God Himself. In June, when the seers went with several dozen people, the girl asked that the Blessed Virgin take all three of them to heaven. But instead of taking them to the Cova, he confined them elsewhere, where he tried to force them to reveal the three secrets the Blessed Virgin confided in July.

Source: Manila Times September 23, 2017 16:30 UTC