[Campion]

Fatima was the name of Mohammed's daughter, but this is a reference to the Portuguese village where the most famous Marian apparition of modern times occurred in 1917.

The village may have originally been named by the Moslems; I would assume they controlled the place at some point prior to 1492.

[HapaxLegamenon]

Perhaps Our Lady of Fatima is the key to victory over Islamic Terrorists

[I got the rope]

Thanks...makes sense now.

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I haven't tried to verify this, but I was told that a young women who was named after Mohammed's daughter (Fatima) converted to Christianity and married a local landowner/lord (something like that) and he named the town after her.

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[LadyDoc]

The village may have originally been named by the Moslems

Fatima was Mohammed's sister, I believe.

The village of Fatima was named after a beloved wife, a Muslim convert who married a Christian soldier and converted to Christianity hundreds of years before.

I have no problem with rosary crusades, but it will turn off non Catholics.

The reason that the rosary is stressed as a form of prayer in the home is not only because it requires thinking about Christ's life when you say the prayers, but because it was the way poor and illiterate people prayed. Literate people could recite the psalms (the divine office). Illiterate people substituted simple prayers for the 150 psalms, accompanied by a bible verse. After a few hundred years, the present day rosary evolved, along with the (muslim) custom of keeping count with stringed beads (in place of pebbles, the original counting device)

So it would be better to say: Catholics remember that we prayed for victory, and the result was the victory of Vienna and Lepanto.

So if all Americans repented of their sins and prayed to God for peace and asked him to pardon us for the sins of our society and our personal sins, He may grant us victory.