Crusade Magazine, Vol. 189, May/June, 2024 - Fatima: An Overview to Understand the Message | To understand the set of communications and visions with which Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta were favored, we must first review Catholic doctrine on the communion of saints. The prayers and merits of one person can benefit another. Thus, the prayers, sacrifices and offering of their lives by the three children, especially after spiritually benefiting from the apparitions of the Queen of All Saints, could also benefit a large number of souls and even entire nations. Our Lady came to ask the three seers for prayers and sacrifice. To Jacinta and Francisco, she also asked that they offer their lives as expiatory victims for the sins of men. She asked Lucia to stay in this world to fulfill a mission we will speak about below.
