marian anniversaries     october

October 30

Our Lady of Fatima, Bison, Oklahoma, USA

During the Cold War, devotion to Our Lady of Fatima spread among U.S. Catholics, based on reports that during her 1917 apparition in Portugal she had predicted the Communist takeover of Russia and promised its downfall if her messages were heeded. In 1951, the Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa dedicated a grotto to Our Lady of Fatima outside St. Joseph Church in the unincorporated community of Bison, 78 miles north of Oklahoma City. In 1992, an electrical storm caused a fire that burned the grotto, leaving only the blackened stones and statues. On October 30, 1994, Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran of Oklahoma City consecrated the rebuilt Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Bison. 

Source: Knights of Columbus, council1044.org/OurLadyofFatima.aspx

Also commemorated this date:

Mother of God the Deliverer, New Athos, Gudauta, Abkhazia, Georgia (October 17 old calendar)
Unser Lieben Frau, Dresden, Germany (Our Dear Lady). Rebuilt Lutheran cathedral consecrated, 2005.
Mariä Heimsuchung, Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany (Visitation of Mary). Church dedicated, 1757.
Mother of God "In Giving Birth You Preserved Your Virginity," Moscow, Russia (October 17 old calendar)
 

Where We Walked ~~~ Mary Ann Daly