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One reason the movie was made was that four of the predictions made by the woman from heaven had come true by that time.
One was that Jacinto would go to heaven shortly (she died about 1919). The second one was that her brother Francesco would join her in heaven. He also died about 1919. But the woman from Heaven said that Lucia Santos would have to remain on earth for a while to perform work that heaven wanted done (she died almost 85 years after the apparitions, and just weeks before Pope John Paul II).
The third prediction of the woman from heaven was that Russia would spread its errors through the world. This made the three kids the laughing stock of people in 1917, and the last apparition occurred in October of 1917 -- the month of Red October -- the Russian Revolution.
Russia had been knocked out early in World War I because it was falling apart. So the fact Russia would spread its errors throughout the world seemed like a joke at the time.
But the warning was about atheistic communism, which Russia did spread in the 1920's until the fall of Communism in Russia in 1990...
The last prediction (that people would know about it) was that if people did not repent, an even worse war would come upon the earth than the War going on then (World War I). This was the prediction for World War II -- but it was a conditional prediction.
Lastly, the children were mocked by the freemason government of Portugal, and since the children predicted a miracle on October 13, 1917, this event was going to be covered by the Lisbon newspaper -- because the freemasons knew the miracle would not occur (which it did).
If you can read Portugese, you can read the article about the Miracle of the Sun that occurred that day -- October 13, 1917 -- at the Cove de Iria (Cove of Peace) at Fatima, Portugal.
There were many predictions that did came true. One prediction the children muffed was because they did not understand time and heaven. The woman from heaven said that World War I would end soon. It ended over a year later... But the children thought that it would be over in days or a few weeks...
That is sort of like what the womand from heaven said about Lucia Santos staying on earth -- for a while longer. That for a while longer was over 85 years and almost 90 years...