Our Lady came to Fatima [antikvár]

AUTHOR'S NOTEHistory is filled with wonderful events that have left discouragingly few or undependable written records behind them. We have to piece them together with guesswork and question marks. This is not true of the Fatima story. What happened there happened so recently, as history goes, that many of the people involved are still alive, and the whole story has been investigated by many excellent writers using the most modern methods of scholarly research.Of the many books written about Fatima, I found the indispensable source to be The Immaculate Heart by Father John De Marchi (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952), who spent so many years tracking down the minutest details of the story at its source. I am also indebted to George Boehrer and Costa Brochado's Fatima: In the Light of History (Bruce, 1954) for a searching account of the Portuguese political scene and for a fascinating survey of the newspaper coverage given to Our Lady's appearances in the Cova da Iria.The charming incident related on page 12 8 was found in April Oursler Armstrong's Fatima: Pil-Aim^