#Jacinta Marto

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINTS FRANCISCO AND JACINTA MARTO The Young Visionaries of Our Lady of Fátima Feast Day: February 20

In the spring of 1916, as World War I raged across Europe and on the eve of Soviet Communism, three children from Fátima, 90 miles north of Lisbon, were watching over the family sheep. The children were 7-year-old Jacinta Marto, her 8-year-old brother Francisco and their 9-year-old cousin Lúcia dos Santos.

A strong wind shook some nearby trees, and above them a white light appeared. It approached them and, as Lúcia related, 'took the form of a young man, transparent and resplendent with light.'

He identified himself as the Angel of Peace, and invited them to pray with him.

He taught them several prayers, including: "My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you. I ask pardon of you for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you."

In a second apparition, he identified himself as the Guardian Angel of Portugal, and told the children: "Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners."

The angel appeared to them a third time, gave them Holy Communion, and said: "Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God."

On May 13, 1917, the children were again tending their sheep about a mile from the family home at the Cova da Iria. A flash of light shot through the sky and there appeared 'a Lady dressed all in white, more brilliant than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal glass filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.'

The Lady told the children she was from heaven. She asked them to pray the Rosary (a beautiful rosary of white pearls hung on her arm), to return to the Cova every 13th of the month until October, and to accept any sufferings God sent in reparation for sin and for the conversion of sinners.

The children returned on June 13 with a crowd of about 70 curious onlookers (only the children could see the apparition, however).

The beautiful Lady again appeared, and taught the children the prayer many Catholics now say as part of their Rosary: "Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of your mercy."

On July 13, the Lady showed the children a horrifying image of hell.

As Lúcia recalled: "We saw huge numbers of devils and lost souls in a vast and fiery ocean. The devils resembled black animals, hideous and unknown, each filling the air with despairing shrieks. The lost souls were in their human bodies and seemed brown in color, tumbling about constantly in the flames and screaming with terror…"

The Lady declared: "You have seen hell, where the souls of sinners go. To save them God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart…"

She told the children that the war would soon be over, but said a worse one would soon begin, along with famine and persecution of the Church and Holy Father.

To prevent this, she asked for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. She promised peace if her requests were granted, and many woes otherwise, including that Russia 'will spread her errors throughout the entire world, provoking wars and persecution of the Church.'

The final apparition was on Oct. 13, 1917. It brought 70,000 onlookers, who were drenched and muddied by heavy rains. The Lady told the children: "I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their live and to ask pardon for their sins… People must say the rosary. Let them continue saying it every day."

As she was about to leave, the clouds parted and the sun appeared in the sky. But rather than its normal appearance, it was a pale silver disc, which people could gaze at without hurting their eyes. It began to whirl about, sending off shafts of multicolored light.

The enthralled crowd watched the spectacle for 12 minutes, when suddenly the sun seemed to plunge down to earth. Shrieks went up from the terrified crowd. Just at the moment when it seemed all would be destroyed, it returned peacefully to its proper location in the sky.

Many in the crowd who were sick and handicapped were miraculously healed; the muddy clothes of the crowd were now clean and dry. During the miracle, the children were privileged with visions of the Christ Child, the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph.

On April 4, 1919, Francisco fell ill and died. Jacinta died the following year - February 20. In 1921, Lúcia entered the convent, where she remained until her death in 2005. In 1930, after careful investigation, the Bishop of Leiria-Fátima approved the apparition.

Pope St. John Paul II met with Sister Lúcia and repeated demonstrated his special devotion to Our Lady of Fátima. After surviving an assassination attempt early in his pontificate on May 13, 1981, the anniversary of the first appearance of Our Lady of Fátima, the Holy Father traveled to Fátima on May 13, 1982, to offer thanks to the Blessed Mother for sparing his life.

Pope St. John Paul II traveled to Fátima to beatify Jacinta and Francisco on May 13, 2000. Pope Francis also traveled to Portugal to canonize the pair on May 13, 2017.

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Blessed Jacinta Marto Illustrated by Primar

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Jacinta Marto

Seherin * 11. März 1910 in Aljustrel bei Fátima in Portugal † 20. Februar 1920 in Lissabon in Portugal

Gedenktag katholisch: 20. Februar Name bedeutet: die Hyazinthe (griech.)

Kanonisation: Jacinta wurde zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Franziskus am 13. Mai 2000 von Papst Johannes Paul II. bei seiner Wallfahrt nach Fátima in Anwesenheit der 93-jährigen Lucia seliggesprochen; die Heiligsprechung erfolgte zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Franziskus am 100. Jahrestag der ersten Erscheinung, dem 13. Mai 2017, durch Papst Franziskus, der dazu nach Fátima gekommen war.

Patronin der Kranken, Gefangenen, um ihres Glaubens willen Verfolgten

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Caroline Perkins | 12 May 2023

Our Lady of Fatima is one of the most revered apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church.

The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima marks the date she first appeared to three shepherd children in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal.

The messages delivered during these apparitions included a call to repentance, prayer and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

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Modern Saint Bracket Announcement

Instead of waiting until Sunday, the modern bracket will open immediately after the post-schism bracket is over. This is the modern bracket, which will be followed by a final four, and then there will be even MORE polls (losers' brackets, Marian apparitions, we're going all summer baby.)

Catholic Saint Tournament Modern Bracket Round 1 Pairings:

St Therese of Lisieux vs St Elizabeth Ann Seton

St Padre Pio (of Pietrelcina) vs St Charles de Foucauld

St Maximilian Kolbe vs St Benilde Romancon

St John Bosco vs St John Neumann

St Mother Teresa (of Calcutta) vs St Arnold Janssen

St Jacinta Marto vs St Edith Stein

St Maria Goretti vs St Marianne Cope

St Charles Lwanga (& co) vs St John Vianney

St Oscar Romero vs St Josemaria Escriva

St Bernadette vs St Damian of Molokai

St Faustina vs St Catherine Laboure

St Mary MacKillop vs St Katharine Drexel

St Gemma Galgani vs St Frances Xavier Cabrini

St John Henry Cardinal Newman vs Pope St John Paul II

Pope St John XXIII vs St Mark Ji Tianxiang

St Francisco Marto vs Sts Louis & Zelie Martin (package deal)

You can still submit nominations for beatified folks, propaganda for your favorite saints, or other thoughts in the ask box! Or suggestions for future polls, questions, etc.

May the best saint win!

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Saint Francisco Marto 

1908 – 1919

Saint Jacinta Marto 

 1910 – 1920

Feast Day: February 20

Patronage: bodily ills, captives, people ridiculed for their piety, prisoners, sick people, against sickness

Francisco Marto (June 11, 1908 – April 4, 1919), his sister Jacinta Marto (March 11, 1910 – February 20, 1920) and their cousin Lucia Santos( 1907–2005) Known as the children of Fatima witnessed three apparitions of an angel  in 1916 and several apparitions of theBlessed Virgin Mary in 1917. The siblings were victims of the great 1918 influenza epidemic that swept through Europe that year. These 2 little souls suffered much before they died and offered it all for the conversion of sinners.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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Five tiles panels with religious themes: Jesus, Sãozinha de Alenquer (here called Saint Sãozinha), Our Lady of Fátima, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto (two of the shepard-vidents of Fátima), and Our Lady of Conception.

All these panels are from the surf/fishing town of Nazaré.

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Saints Francisco and Jacinta Marto, pray for us!

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The Four Last Things

SO MANY GO TOHELL!

"𝑾𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔! 𝑺𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍!" 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒐

In The True Story of Fatima, Father John de Marchi recounted how Jacinta’s father Ti Marto witnessed the children’s actions in the Cova da Iria that day. He remembered “that Lucia gasped in sudden horror, that her face was white as death, and that all who were there heard her cry in terror to the Virgin Mother, whom she called by name,” wrote Father de Marchi. “The children were looking at their Lady in terror, speechless, and unable to plead for relief from the scene they had witnessed.”

Later at the request of the Bishop of Leiria, Lucia described the vision this way:

“As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, as she had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. Terrified and as if to plead for succour, we looked up at Our Lady, who said to us, so kindly and so sadly: You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.”

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¿Timos y Leyendas?

Cuerpo incorrupto de la Beata Jacinta Marto, vidente en Fátima, Portugal

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SAINTS OF THE DAY (February 20)

Francisco, 11, and Jacinta, 10, are the youngest non-martyrs to be canonized in the history of the Church.

The brother and sister, who tended to their families’ sheep with their cousin Lucia Santo in the fields of Fatima, Portugal, witnessed the apparitions of Mary, now commonly known as Our Lady of Fatima.

During the first apparition, which took place on 13 May 1917, Our Lady asked the three children to say the Rosary and to make sacrifices, offering them for the conversion of sinners.

The children did, praying often, giving their lunch to beggars, and going without food themselves. They offered up their daily crosses and even refrained from drinking water on hot days.

In October 1918, Francisco and Jacinta became seriously ill with the Spanish flu. Our Lady appeared to them and said she would to take them to heaven soon.

Bed-ridden, Francisco requested his first Communion. The following day, Francisco died on 14 April 1919.

Jacinta suffered a long illness as well. She was eventually transferred to a Lisbon hospital and operated for an abscess in her chest, but her health did not improve. She died on 20 February 1920.

Pope John Paul II beatified Francisco and Jacinta on 13 May 2000, on the 83rd anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima.

On 13 May 2017, Pope Francis officially declared Francisco and Jacinta Marto saints of the Catholic Church in front of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at Fatima, Portugal – teaching us that even young children can become saints.

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About St Jacinta Marto (left)

About St Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, right)

Modern Bracket Round 1

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Sts. Francisco & Jacinta Marto

Saint of the Day

St. Francisco (1908-1919) and St. Jacinta Marto (1910–1920) were siblings and the youngest of the three shepherd children, who, along with their cousin, Lúcia Santos, witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and six apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917 while tending sheep in the countryside of Fatima, Portugal. They were entrusted by Our Lady of Fatima with many messages and warnings for the world, and that they were to do penance and pray for the conversion of sinners. Both became prayerful mystics, much wiser than their age, on account of these visits. Although only young children, they faithfully offered up many sacrifices as Our Lady requested, by praying the rosary daily, giving their lunches to the poor, denying themselves water on hot days, wearing a rough rope next to her skin, calmly facing ridicule on account of the apparitions, and bravely enduring the suffering that ended in their deaths. The Blessed Mother told Francisco and Jacinta that they would die young and that she would soon come to take them to heaven. Francisco and Jacinta both fell sick from influenza in 1918. Francisco died first, and Jacinta the next year after a long illness and two hospitalizations. They were canonized by Pope Francis on May 13, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the first Apparition of Our Lady of Fátima. Their feast day is February 20th.