By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register, August 20, 2024
Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper. His articles have appeared in a number of national publications including Columbia magazine, Soul, Faith and Family, Catholic Digest, Catholic Exchange, and Marian Helper. …
‘It is the message of Fatima,’ Bishop John Shojiro Ito, who formally approved the 1973 Marian apparitions, told the Japanese nun, who died this month.
When Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the visionary of Akita, Japan, died at age 93 on Aug. 15, on the Solemnity of the Assumption, the messages she was purportedly given and their connection to those of Fatima again came into the spotlight.
The connections between Akita and Fatima are striking, beginning with Akita’s major message and Fatima’s “Miracle of the Sun” both taking place on Oct. 13. The day of the week was also the same — a Saturday, our Blessed Mother’s special day. Our Lady’s apparitions ended at Fatima with the Miracle of the Sun on this date in 1917; and on this same date and same day of the week in 1973, she gave her third in a series of four messages to Sister Agnes….
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