In Coptic tradition, she bathes her child first in a spring so that a sickly child may bathe afterwards and be cured, and the cave where she nurses becomes a source of renewed milk for the breasts of dry mothers who make pilgrimage there.
She keeps secrets deep in her heart, when shepherds, kings, and prophets tell her mysteries of her son’s destiny. In the Gospel of Luke, she rushes off to visit her pregnant cousin Elizabeth, and aids her through her pregnancy.
She becomes the mother of the “Beloved Disciples”, who takes her into his home upon Christ’s final instruction from the cross.
She also stands at the foot of the cross, bearing the full brunt of her Son’s agony. In the Gospel of John, Mary famously urges Jesus to perform the miracle of the Wedding Feast, turning water into wine, urging the servers to do whatever He tells them, so that the young couple would not be embarrassed. There are countless stories about both offering what they have to others. In this they share a common archetypal place in the spiritual imagination, distinct from the goddess traditions within paganism in that they claim no divinity for themselves, but rather reflect an intimate union with the Creator as His creations. Given the multi-layered cultural history of the Iberian Peninsula, with various cases of conversion and intermarriage as control shifted back and forth between Christians and Muslims, this is easy to believe.īut the main connection that jumps to mind for me is just the way in which both Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and Fatima, the Daughter of Muhammad, are seen as these feminine vessels of grace and piety by their respective traditions, and how both are visited by angels and serve as conduits of wholeness and holiness for others. When she died, he named the area in her memory. Legend has it town itself was named for after Arab woman who converted from Islam to Christianity, married a Portuguese man, and settled down in the region.
Famously, at the conclusion of the final apparition, a crowd of thousands saw the “miracle of the sun”, in which the great orb in the sky seemed to spin from its axis before returning to its place in the heavens.Īs has been brought up elsewhere, there is an interesting tie-in between the name of this town and the name of Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad. Her core message was to call for people to repent from sin and turn back to God, as well as urge the faithful to prayer for the conversion of sinners everywhere and a lasting world peace. On May 13th, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima is observed, commemorating the first apparition to three shepherd children in a small town of Fatima in Po rtugal. In the month of May, Catholics focus particular attention on the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life of faith.
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