13 May

Two events sixty-four years apart occurred on 13 May. While these events are separated by three generations, they are interconnected due to the person involved in the latter. It was a Sunday in 1917 when three children were shepherding in the hills of Fatima, Portugal when one of the three, a ten year old girl, saw a shining figure in an oak tree, which she claimed was the Virgin Mary. The apparition on that date told the children to come to this area on the 13th day of each of the next five months; hence making six total appearances. 

Fatima, 13 Oct 1917
Univ of Dayton

The children received, so it is said, three statements, two of which were made public many years ago. The two initially made public were (1) a vision of hell, and (2) that WWI would soon end, but it would be followed by a worse war (WWII) if humanity did not stop offending God. The third secret was kept hidden from most all eyes (only popes and close associates saw it) until 2000, and predicted the martyrdom of a "bishop dressed in white" (the pope), and is often connected to the assassination attempt on John Paul II which occurred on 13 May 1981. This is the second historical event on this rather odd day. I refer to it as odd since one event was supernatural and spectacular, an apparition, and the other sinister and calculated--attempt at killing a person. There exist few diametrically opposed occurrences than an apparition of the Virgin Mary and an attempt at murder. On the other hand, would she have appeared on Friday the thirteenth? 

Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, abt age 10
Google images

John Paul II was shot twice two into his body and an additional two deflected shots that hit other persons. One bullet hit him within an inch or so of his heart and aorta. Picking up on the extremes of this day, John Paul believed that "one hand fired the bullet, another guided it." The bullet removed from his body rests inside the crown of the main statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima; it was placed there in 1982. Information found in the former East Germany laid the planning of the attempt on JPII's life with the Soviet Union, which of course Russia denied. 

13 May 1981, JPII one moment after being shot
Vatican News Service

There was no denying that some celestial event occurred on 13 Oct 1917 on the sixth and final appearance of the Virgin Mary to the three children. A large crowd, said to number over 50,000 persons by an anti-religious Portuguese news reporter who was in the crowd. It is termed the miracle of the sun. In 1992, the BBC, in an interview with Rosa, who was at that October 1917 event, quotes one woman as saying:  "All I saw was the planets in the sky in many colours. It was a miracle." Going on the person said-- "Then there seemed to be a shower of flowers falling from the sky. It was like a snowfall. And then the Sun started spinning faster and faster like a wheel of fire. It lasted for about half a minute. By the end, it was going very fast." In a 11 May 2026 article on Fatima, the BBC further provided this which included another quote from Rosa who witnessed the "miracle of the Sun":

Whether it was a miracle or a mass hallucination – or a meteorological event – is debated. But it seemed to have had a profound effect on some of the people who were present. "Everyone knows I already had faith. But after that, I began to believe even more strongly," Rosa told the BBC in 1992. "I wasn't afraid, but many people, when they saw the Sun spinning like that, they were afraid. When something like that happens, you have to believe and have faith."

Couple Moments after being shot
Vintag.es

If it was not a miracle it certainly was very coincidental with date and time, and perhaps location. I am not sure if others in the region reported the same type of event. if limited to small area that says something, too.

Two of the three children died a few years later during the flu epidemic. Lucia, who first saw the Virgin Mary died in 2005 at the age of 97. She became a discalced Carmelite sister. If Trump thinks Pope Leo is political it makes me wonder what he thinks of the political nature of Fatima appearance and its call for the conversion of Russia. The appearance became to be coveted in political terms in the 1920's, and hit its zenith during the pontificate of John Paul II. The political nature of John Paul II cannot be denied: he favored the Solidarity labor rights movement in Poland, and helped the west in order to bring down the Soviet Union. These two events of 13 May are intertwined and show a connection between faith and politics that has occurred in the past. 

As an aside, some Protestant ministers have said that Donald Trump understands the bible better than Pope Leo. That is not only an insult to the pope, but also to his teachers. One of his teachers was Sr Dianne Bergant, now of Fond du Lac, who taught Robert Prevost as part of Master's of Divinity studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Her specialty was the bible. I suspect the pope respects the words in Romans, referenced by the minister, but the Leo has been clear saying he is following the Gospel. Blessed are the Peace Makers.