{"id":1780,"date":"2017-05-12T23:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T23:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:21:27","slug":"fatima-sister-lucia-on-how-mary-appeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Fatima &#8211; Sister Lucia on how Mary appeared"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>This is actually off an ad from Crisis magazine &#8211;<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>&#8220;How old did our<br> Lady appear to be?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><strong>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> &#8220;Perhaps seventeen,&#8221;<\/strong><br> said Sister Lucia, the last<br> surviving visionary of the<br> apparitions at Fatima. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Father Thomas McGlynn was visiting<br> the girl (now a nun) who had spoken<br> with Mary, the Mother of God.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He had sculpted a statue of<br> Our Lady of Fatima and was<br> seeking Lucia&#8217;s approval&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8230;but she wouldn&#8217;t grant it! <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d281fcb0970c-300wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13324\" title=\"Sr Lucia and statue\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d281fcb0970c-300wi.jpg 261w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d281fcb0970c-300wi-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> <br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Lucia invited him to remain in Portugal and work with her to create a statue that reflected the reality of what she saw.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She showed how Our Lady appeared by pulling a Rosary from the pocket of her habit, draping it over the palm of her right hand, and joining her hands together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She would make corrections as Fr. Tom worked, and at times would even take one of the tools and make changes to his model.<br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually off an ad from Crisis magazine &#8211; &#8220;How old did our Lady appear to be?&#8221; &#8220;Perhaps seventeen,&#8221; said Sister Lucia, the last surviving visionary of the apparitions at Fatima. Father Thomas McGlynn was visiting the girl (now a nun) who had spoken with Mary, the Mother of God. He had sculpted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13325,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/13325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}