Mary's miracle

Ephesus may have been the place where Mary spent her final days, but by many accounts it wasn’t the last that the world saw of her.

- BERNARD OSHEA

Of all the Vatican’s 16 officially recognised ‘Marian apparitions’ that have occurred between 1531 and 1989, the grandest, surely, must have taken place at Fátima in central Portugal on October 13, 1917.