Our Lady of Fatima Bracelet

Our Lady of Fatima Bracelet — Single Italian Silver-Tone Medal, Medjugorje Handwoven Cord

The Our Lady of Fatima bracelet centers a small oval Our Lady of Fatima medal in silver tone on a handwoven cord — a devotional bracelet honoring the Marian apparitions at Fátima, Portugal, in 1917, when the Blessed Virgin appeared to three shepherd children over six successive months. Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, Mary appeared at the Cova da Iria to Lúcia dos Santos and her younger cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, calling for prayer, penance, and the daily Rosary. Identifying herself as “Our Lady of the Rosary,” she entrusted the children with the three secrets of Fatima and asked for devotion to her Immaculate Heart. On October 13, 1917, an estimated seventy thousand people gathered at the Cova da Iria witnessed the Miracle of the Sun, when the sun appeared to spin and plunge toward the earth — a public sign reported even in the secular Portuguese press. Francisco and Jacinta Marto, who died young in the years after the apparitions, were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000 and canonized by Pope Francis on May 13, 2017, the centenary of the first apparition. The feast of Our Lady of Fatima falls each May 13 — the very day in 1981 that Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt in St. Peter’s Square and afterward credited Our Lady of Fatima with sparing his life, later placing the bullet in the crown of the venerated statue at the Fatima shrine. The best-known Our Lady of Fatima prayer, taught at the apparitions and prayed after each Rosary decade, begins: “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins…”

Each Our Lady of Fatima bracelet features a single oval medal in silver tone, produced in Italy and hand-knotted onto a woven Medjugorje cord. Available in 15 cord colors for parishes, Marian pilgrimage agencies, Portuguese-speaking communities, Rosary apostolates, Catholic schools, First Communion and Confirmation gifts, and devotional wholesalers. Supplied in packs of 10.

Handwoven in Medjugorje by women who pray as they tie each knot, every Our Lady of Fatima bracelet from MIRJAM DOO carries devotion at its source — Italian medal, Bosnian hands, in honour of the Lady of the Rosary who, at Fátima, asked the world to pray.