century of apparitions is the apparition that took place in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. It occurred over a several-month period. The Virgin Mary supposedly appeared to three children during that time period, and she promised that in October of 1917, the same month of the Bolshevik Revolution, on the 13th of that month that she would return and perform a miracle so that everyone that wanted to believe that the messages that she had left with the three children could believe them and that they were genuine. And for the preceding months, first the children who had met an angel and then began meeting with the Virgin Mary thereafter, the children were disbelieved that they were having any kind of supernatural encounter, and each month as they would go to the appointed place in the Cova del Vaira in Fatima, Portugal, they would meet with the Virgin Mary and she would commune with them and give them information and they received three secret messages, and we'll talk about those messages briefly here in a moment. But on the 13th of October, there had been so much contention about these ongoing miracles that there was a crowd of between 50 and 100,000 people that showed up to see if the Virgin was really going to perform a miracle. Now this is 1917 and it was in Portugal. It's not paved roads, it's dirt roads. And when the time came for this miracle to be performed, you need to remember one other factor. Portugal at that time was a communist country. Communism was the opposing force to Catholicism at that time. They were in a struggle and the communist government had no sympathy for the supposed miracles that were taking place with these Catholic people. So early on they even tried to incarcerate the children to prevent them from meeting with the Virgin Mary and they were released. But by the time October 13th, 1917 arrived, the children were free and they were going to meet at the place and see the miracle that the Virgin had promised them. And there was between 50 and 100,000 people there to witness this event. But there was also reporters from every newspaper in Portugal, which were Catholic-controlled newspapers because it was a Catholic country. And of course those reporters were there to debunk this supposed miracle. And on the day that the miracle was supposed to take place, it had been raining and raining and raining and it was muddy and wet and there was mud and water standing in the road. And the people went out to the place where the miracle was supposed to occur. And at the time of day that the miracle was supposed to occur, the clouds parted.