South Africa urgently needs to hear the prophetic messages of Our Lady given at Fatima in Portugal.

In 1917, Our Lady appeared to three young shepherd children with a serious message both of warning and hope for humanity.

If the world did not convert, the Blessed Virgin said there would be many famines, wars, and much suffering.

She prophesied that Russia would unleash its “errors” upon the world.

To avert such disasters, Our Lady asked for prayer, penance and amendment of life.

She also promised that Russia would finally convert and that “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

South Africa Needs Our Lady promotes this urgent and important Message particularly through the Public Square Rosary Rally Crusade and the Fatima Home Visitation Program, through the distribution of rosaries, excellent Catholic literature and various devotional items. Other activities include mailings, publications, e-mail campaigns and protests against blasphemies and more.

Who can deny that today we are facing a complete breakdown in society?

The admonitions, requests, and warnings of the Blessed Virgin can rightly be called a heaven-sent survival manual and we ignore these at our peril!

Please join us in this battle for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of souls.

ROSES AND BANNER DELIVERED TO FATIMA!

A big Thank You to all the Rosary Rally Captains and Sponsors who made it possible for South Africa Needs Our Lady to send this big banner and more than 100 roses to Our Lady’s shrine at Fatima in Portugal for 13 October 2024.

Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima

Abbot Franz Pfanner

The Apostle of South Africa

Born in Vorarlberg, Austria, to a good Catholic family in 1825, Wendelin Pfanner decided to dedicate his life to serving God by nurturing the Faith in the lives of the youth and reviving it in families who had lapsed into religious indifference.

He was a true evangelist and a trusted confessor, but his frail health made him choose a life of prayer and penance as a Trappist where he was given the name of Franz.

God called him to active duty once again as a missionary and a monk in Bosnia and South Africa where he founded Mariannhill in 1882 near Durban, as a centre of Catholic Faith and outreach.

ln response to his invitation, brave women dedicated their lives to God to do missionary work amongst the people of South Africa – the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood (1885).

They, along with the Missionaries of Mariannhill, have since lived and worked in many countries of the world in the service of God doing what Abbot Pfanner described as “the flame of your zeal – let it soar!”

He retired to a mission station at Emaus, down the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast where he died on 24 May 1909. He was buried in the cemetery at Mariannhill.

Without Abbot Francis’s zeal and devotion to serving God, the church in South Africa would not be what it is today.

Many love and honour him as their friend, father and guide and many are the favours obtained through prayer to him.

We pray that the Church will raise him soon to the status She bestows on Her heroes and heroines – the Saints.

Read the posts below to discover more about the Apostle of South Africa.