what is "fatima"?

Answer 1

Our Lady of Fatima (pron. IPA ['fa.ti.mɐ]) is the title given to the Virgin Mary by Catholics and others who believe that she appeared monthly, for several months, to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal, in 1917. The title of Our Lady of the Rosary is also used in reference to the same apparition; the children related that the apparition specifically identified herself as "the Lady of the Rosary". It is also common to see a combination of these titles, i.e., Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima).

Between May and October of 1917, three shepherd children, Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto reported visions of the Virgin Mary in the Cova da Iria fields outside the village of Aljustrel, very close to Fatima, Portugal. They had this experience on the 13th day of each month at approximately the same hour.[1] Lúcia described seeing Mary as "more brilliant than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal glass filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun."[1]

According to Lúcia's account, Mary confided to the children three secrets, known as the Three Secrets of Fatima.[1] She exhorted the children to do penance and to make sacrifices to save sinners.[1] The children wore tight cords around their waists to cause pain, abstained from drinking water on hot days, and performed other works of penance.[1] Most important, Lúcia said Mary asked them to say the Rosary every day, reiterating many times that the Rosary was the key to personal and world peace. Many young Portuguese men, including relatives of the visionaries, were then fighting in World War I.

Thousands of people flocked to Fatima and Aljustrel in the ensuing months, drawn by reports of visions and miracles.[1] On August 13, 1917, the provincial administrator Arturo Santos[2] (no relation), believing that the events were politically disruptive, intercepted and jailed the children before they could reach the Cova da Iría that day.[1] Prisoners held with them in the provincial jail later testified that the children, while upset, were consoled by the inmates, and then led the inmates in saying the Rosary.[1] Administrator Santos interrogated the children primarily about the alleged secrets, but was unsuccessful in his attempt to discover what those secrets were.[1] Santos went so far as to feign the preparation of a pot of boiling oil, and then removed the children one by one from his interrogation room, claiming that each removed child had been boiled to death in the oil, and urging the remaining child to divulge the secret so as to avoid a similar fate.[1] That month, instead of the usual apparition in the Cova da Iría on the 13th of the month, the children reported that they saw Mary on the 19th of August at nearby Valinhos.[1]

On October 13, 1917, the final in the series of the apparitions of 1917, a crowd believed to be approximately 70,000 in number[3], including newspaper reporters and photographers, gathered at the Cova da Iría in a torrential rainstorm in response to reports of the children's prior claims that on that day a miracle would occur "so that all may believe".[1] Countless observers reported that the clouds broke, revealing the sun as an opaque disk spinning in the sky and radiating various colors of light upon the surroundings, then appearing to detach itself from the sky and plunge itself towards the earth in a zigzag pattern, finally returning to its normal place, and leaving the people's once wet clothing now completely dry. The event is known as the "Miracle of the Sun".[4].

Answer 2

Fatima (name)
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Fatima, or, in a more exact transliterion, Fāţimah (Arabic: فاطمة ), is originally an Arabic name, meaning "She who weans", being the name of the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad; after the advent of Islam it became a common Muslim name for women. It is also used (as shortened to Mǎ (馬)) as a common family name for Chinese Muslims, and the Persian transliteration is Fatemeh.

The name may also refer to:

Fatimah bint Amr
Fátima, Portugal, a town in Portugal
Our Lady of Fatima, a famous Marian apparition at Fátima, Portugal in 1917
The "Miracle of the Sun", a miracle associated with the 1917 apparition
Three Secrets of Fatima, prophecies associated with the 1917 apparition
Fatima Zahra, daughter of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam
Fatima Jinnah (1893-1967), the sister of Pakistan's first governor-general, Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Fatima bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
Fatima The Gracious (book)

Answer 3

Fatima is a small town in France where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to 3 children, many years ago.

Answer 4

In many languages, it is a female proper name. In a few religions, it is the name of a saint who made an appearance to 3 children and revealed them 3 secrets. Look for 'the three secrets of Fatima' for further information.

Answer 5

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Fatima is a female created by Allah to be a sign of His marvelous and unprecedented might. For, The Almighty Lord created Muhammad (S) as a sign of His might among prophets; and created from him his daughter Fatima Zahra to be a sign of His ability to create a female possessing all moral excellence and talents. In fact, Allah Almighty bestowed Fatima with a vast share of greatness and a high level of majesty, which no other woman can ever claim to have reached.

She is one of the prominent people close to Allah, whose greatness was acknowledged by Heaven before the creation of mankind; and in whose regard verses from the Quran, that are and will be read day and night until the Day of Resurrection, were revealed.

Fatima is a Lady, who as mankind advances in the understanding and realization of facts and secrets, the greatness of her personality will become more apparent, and the deep meanings and characteristics of her actions will be more appreciated.

She is Fatima Zahra (A) whom Allah praises, and is "satisfied with her satisfaction, and is angered when she is angered." And the Messenger of Allah (S) commends her nobility and meritorious personality, while Imam Ali (A) looks to her with respect and admiration and the holy Imams of Ahlul Bayt sanctify and venerate her.

Answer 6

It's a place in Portugal where Our Lady allegedly appeared to some children. She allegedly told them some secrets - the three secrets of Fatima.

Answer 7

Fatima is a lady name which means "faithful".

Answer 8

Fatima is an arabic muslim name for a girl.
the famoust muslim girl who cried this name was the daughter of the prophet (PBUH)

Answer 9

Fatimah Zahra was the daughter of the prophet Mohammed.

Answer 10

it's a place in portugal where the blessed virgin mary mother of Jesus Christ appeard to children namely Francisca, Jacinta, and Lucia in a process known as apperation. Those children are old now and I think two are dead.