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Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia, the seers of Fatima (1917)

Many of you readers know this story, I bet. But I’m going to tell it again here because it reveals why I am so interested in the Transcendent, and the unseen sacred order.

In 1993, I became a Catholic. I began at the same time to pray for a wife. I was 26 years old, and tired of being single. I sta…

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