Today is the Feast Day of two of the children of Fatima, Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta. In Fatima, Portugal, Our Blessed Mother appeared to them and their cousin Lucia and said, "I am the Lady of the Rosary."
Francisco Marto (June 11,1908-April 4,1919) and Jacinta Marto (March 11,1910-February 20,1920) were born in Aljustrel, a village in the parish of Fatima. In the company of their cousin Lucia, they saw an angel three times, and the Virgin Mary six times who urged them to pray and do penance for the remission of sins, and to obtain the conversion of sinners.
At the first appearance, Mary asked the children to return to that spot on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months. She also asked them to learn to read and write and to pray the rosary “to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.” They were to pray for sinners and for the conversion of Russia, which had recently overthrown Czar Nicholas II and was soon to fall under communism. Up to 90,000 people gathered for Mary’s final apparition on October 13, 1917. From then on they had only one aspiration: to pray and suffer according to the Angel and Our Lady's requests.
Less than two years later, Francisco died of influenza in his family home. He was buried in the parish cemetery and then re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1952. Jacinta died of influenza in Lisbon, offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world and the Holy Father. She was re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1951. Their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, became a Carmelite nun and was still living when Jacinta and Francisco were beatified in 2000. Sister Lucia died five years later. The shrine of Our Lady of Fatima is visited by up to 20 million people a year. In Fatima on 13th May 2000, Pope John Paul II inscribed their names among the Beatified.
PRAYER FOR THEIR CANONIZATION
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore
Thee profoundly and I thank Thee for the Apparitions
of the Most Holy Virgin in Fatima.
By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary I implore Thee - if it should be for Thy greater
glory and the good of our souls - to glorify in the
spirit of Thy Holy Church blessed Francisco and
Jacinta, granting us through their intercession the
grace which we implore. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us and all the names we receive through this ministry for the babies and little ones.
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