The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.
There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.
A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.
I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917. . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.