Fatima church plans mission retreat

VERNON — Our Lady of Fatima Church in Vernon will host a spiritual mission led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal from May 11-13 at the church, 184 Breakneck Road.

In 1917 at Fatima in Portugal, a private revelation is said to have been given to three young children by God, a police said. The message was for the children to pray and do acts of mortification for the conversion of sinners and for the end of World War I.

That year, the person of Mary appeared to the children once a month from May through October at the Cova Da Iria, which is 2 kilometers from Fatima. The apparitions were usually on the 13th day of the month about noontime.