Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni says Pope Francis' apparently last-minute decision to skip the speech had nothing to do with his eyesight.
visited the revered Catholic Shrine of Fatima in Portugal on Saturday, August 5, praying the rosary for world peace with about 200,000 people at the site where the Church says the Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in 1917.
He stopped often to kiss babies and comfort the sick as he made his way back to a helicopter transporting him to the next event on his five-day trip to Portugal. Later, on Francis’ account on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, the Vatican published part of the unread speech, which before the trip had been billed by Vatican media as an appeal for an end the war in Ukraine.
Siblings Francisco and Jacinta Marto died several years later and were declared saints in 2017. The third, Lucia Dos Santos, became a nun and died in 2005 at the age of 97. Efforts are underway to make her a saint too.The children said the Madonna gave them three messages, the so-called Secrets of Fatima.
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