The Fátima Movement of Priests is a
Roman Catholic
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movement organized by priests who follow the
Marian devotion
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to
Our Lady of Fátima, and was founded under the auspices of the Fatima Center.
History
Fatima Center
The Fatima Center was founded in 1978 by the
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
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priest
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Father
Nicholas Gruner
Nicholas Nightingale Gruner (May 4, 1942April 29, 2015) was a Roman Catholic priest and a promoter of the message of Our Lady of Fátima, a recognized apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fátima, Portugal, in 1917. Father Gruner's interpretat ...
. It is a self-described "grass roots association of Catholic priests and lay people whose mission is to make known the full Message of Our Lady of Fatima, and promote devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary".
Fátima Movement of Priests
The movement was founded following a series of meetings among priests at three international Fátima Peace Congresses held by the Fátima Center:
Tuy, Spain, and
Fátima, Portugal
Fátima () is a city in the municipality of Ourém and district of Santarém in the Central Region of Portugal, with 71.29 km2 of area and 13,212 inhabitants (2021). The homonymous civil parish encompasses several villages and localities o ...
, in October 2006;
São Paulo
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,
Brazil
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, in July 2007; and
Madras,
India
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, in late January, early February 2008.
The organization's stated focus is to implement the messages of
Our Lady of Fátima to affect people's lives, parishes and dioceses. It is also a loose confederation of Catholic priests and bishops the world over who have resolved to make the Fátima Message more central in their own priestly lives and in their work.
Fatima Network
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The group's parent organization is the Fatima Center, founded by the Canadian priest Father Nicholas Gruner.
References
External links
The Fatima Movement of Priests
– Free PDF booklet
The True Story of Fatima
– Free online version of the book by Fr. John de Marchi, I.M.C.
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Our Lady of Fátima
Visions of Jesus and Mary