Who were the witnesses of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima?

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Our Lady of Fátima appeared to three shepherd children. Lucia dos Santos (age 10) and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto (ages 8 and 6, respectively) were tending sheep in central Portugal when they had a vision of a woman surrounded by light who identified herself as the Lady of the Rosary.