Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass of beatification for the two shepherd children, Saturday May 13, 2000, in Fatima, Portugal. Pope John Paul II is on a 24-hours visit to beatify the shepherd children, Francesco and Jacinta Marto, who said the Virgin Mary appeared to them and their cousin Lucia in 1917. The shepherd children died of pneumonia two years after the visions, at the ages of 9 and 11. (AP Photo/Gabriel Bouys, Pool)