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Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto – The Youngest Canonized Saints, but Not the Least
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Pilgrims from Poland dominate the pilgrimages to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, where solemn celebrations of St. Francisco and St. Jacinta Marto are taking place on Friday. Young children of Fatima farmers, along with their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, participated in the Marian apparitions that occurred in this Portuguese town between May 13 and 13. The article "Polish pilgrims in Fatima remembered St. Francisco and St. Jacinta…
Saints Jacinta and Francisco Marto
Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, in the midst of World War I and national political upheaval following the overthrow of Portugal’s monarchy in 1910, three young shepherds from Aljustrel, a small village near Fatima, approximately 110 miles north of Lisbon, witnessed a series of extraordinary events. They reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Cova da Iria, who entrusted them with messages of peace and prayer during a time of great global…
Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto – The Youngest Canonized Saints, but Not the Least
On this day in 1920, February 20th, nine-year old Jacinta Marto died after great suffering, as she lay alone in a hospital bed. She had endured for weeks, including a vain attempt to alleviate her symptoms by removing two of her ribs, without proper anesthetic. The same illness had claimed her ten-year old brother, Francisco, in April of the preceding year. Both had received numerous visitations from the Blessed Virgin, along with their cousin, …
One morning, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto left home on their way to the countryside, like so many other times, without imagining that their ordinary life was about to break. As they took care of the flock in the hills of Fatima, the light of the sky seemed to concentrate before them and, in the midst of that glow, they distinguished a Lady “brighter than the sun.” From that moment on, the shepherd routine became history: questions, disbelie…
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