Fatima visionaries to be made saints

Pope Francis will makes saints of two of the three Portuguese shepherd children believed to have seen a vision of the Madonna 100 years ago at Fatima, the Vatican said on Thursday.

The pope, who is due to visit Fatima in May for the 100th anniversary of the reported apparitions, approved decrees recognising miracles attributed to the intercession of Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto.

They died while they were still children several years after the visions.