The Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, after last Saturday’s announcement from the Vatican Newsroom, officially reported that Pope Francis will be visiting the sanctuary of Fatima on May 12^th and 13^th 2017, to coincide with the celebrations for the 100^th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin. He will be the fourth Pope to go to Portugal in recent times. Pope Paul VI wanted to go to Fatima as a simple pilgrim, on May 13^th 1967, for the 50^th anniversary, landing with his plane in Monte Real and sleeping in the diocese of Leiria. John Paul II, having been injured in the terrorist attack in St Peter’s Square on May 13^th 1981, visited Cova da Iria the year after, “to thank Mary for helping save his life in a place that God’s Mother seems to have chosen in such a special way”. Karol Wojtyla went back to Portugal nine years later, on May 10^th 1991, officiating Mass in the stadium of Restelo, in Lisbon, and writing a letter to the bishops of all over Europe in preparation for the Synod about the Old Continent. On May 12^th and 13^th 2000, the Polish Pope, already in poor health, reached the Marian sanctuary for the last time to attend the beatification of the little shepherds Francisco and Jacinta Marto and announce the publication of the “Third Secret of Fatima”. Benedict XIV stayed on Portuguese soil from May 11^th to 14^th 2010, celebrating Mass in Lisbon, in the extremely crowded Terreiro do Paço, then again in Porto, where he was welcomed by another cheerful crowd in the central Avenida dos Aliados.