text: catholics: fatima, guadalupe, santo nino? i was wondering about where our lady of fatima and guadalupe originated from, besides that its mary.   also, the same question for santo nino. i went to a catholic school, that's why i know this.. the story about our lady of fatima it's from a town called "fatima" in portugal and it's about three little kids that saw virgin mary and received messages from her. this messages were the "three secrets" and involved some kind of warning for the human race.   the guadalupe story comes from mexico, and involves a mexican indian called juan, who as well saw the virgin mary. he asked her to give him some kind of proof to show everyone that he wasn't lying about seeing her, and thats how he got a paint of a virgin on a "poncho".   i don't know if this is true or not, but for the story of our lady of fatima, the catholic church still keeps the "third secret" as a secret, the only person who was supposed to know the secret was john paul ii.   for the guadalupe story, there's some kind of controversy trying to present the poncho as a miracle. the poncho still exists and there's have been some test done to it to verify the authenticity of the story (don't know the results). the poncho lays at the "guadalupe's basilica" in mexico city, and it's beautiful, i have seen it :)