Fatima: the First Hundred Years

On October 13th, 1917, some seventy thousand spectators in Fatima’s Cova de Iria bore witness to what Pio Scatizzi, former professor of astronomy at the Gregorian University, would describe as the “most obvious and colossal miracle of history”—the vision of the sun “dancing” in the heavens.

In Fatima, the First Hundred Years, Barry R. Pearlman bestows a priceless theological and historical framework for understanding this “Miracle of the Sun,” the apparitions that preceded it, and their implications for the modern world.

Drawn extensively from the amazing personal testimony of seer Lucia dos Santos and others, this book reveals the story of three simple shepherd children and the “beautiful lady from Heaven” who visited them as they tended their flocks, amidst the rolling hills of Portugal.

Many books have been written about these events, but ‘Fatima, the First Hundred Years is different. It’s unique, highlighting an often-overlooked feature of the apparitons: the centrality of Our Lady’s emphasis on her Immaculate Heart, which she described to Lucia as “your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”

By properly placing this devotion at the heart of the Fatima message, Pearlman grants his readers not only a detailed overview of the 1917 visions, but a concrete method for carrying out Our Lady’s mission in a troubled world. Newly revised to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the apparitions, Fatima, the First Hundred Years is at once a comprehensive guide for the uninitiated and an invaluable resource for the historian, the skeptic, and the believer.