#StJacintaMarto

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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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Sexagesima Sunday, Notre-Dame de Bolougn-sur-Mer / Our Lady of Bolougn-sur-Mer, France (633) and Memorials of the Saints - 20 February

Sexagesima Sunday, Notre-Dame de Bolougn-sur-Mer / Our Lady of Bolougn-sur-Mer, France (633) and Memorials of the Saints – 20 February

Sexagesima Sunday:(Latin – Sexagesima, sixtieth) is the eighth Sunday before Easter and the second before Lent. The Ordo Romanus, St Alcuin and others, count the Sexagesima from this day to Wednesday after Easter. The name was already known to the Fourth Council of Orléans in 541. To the Latins it is also known as “Exsurge” from the beginning of the Introit. The station was at Saint Paul’s…

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Saint Jacinta #stjacintamarto #new #saint #fatima #100years #ourladyoffatima 🙏

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Memorials of the Saints – 20 February St Amata of Assisi St Bolcan of Derken St Colgan St Eleutherius of Tournai St Eucherius of Orleans OSB (c 687-743)