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You might have noticed a wave of tabloid headlines spread this week claiming the Vatican would be making an announcement about "aliens". “ Pope to hold press conference on aliens and the supernatural — and people are confused,” read one headline in the UK’s Daily Star. Well, you may be woefully disappointed, but it seems to have been a bout of fake news brought on by a misunderstanding over a notice of a press conference to be held in the Holy See Press Office.
That's when the famous apparition occurred in the Portuguese town of Fatima in 1917, of three young shepherd children reporting a series of prophetic visions of the Virgin Mary. Although the church officially recognised the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima as legitimate in 1930, it was not until the centenary of the events that Pope Francis canonised two of the children, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, as saints.
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