Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Seers of Fatima

Ex Indumentis (From the Clothing) Relics of the Visionaries of Our Lady of Fatima, Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto.

 

Feast Day: February 20

 

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. From then on they had only one aspiration: to pray and suffer according to the Angel and Our Lady's requests. 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.

Done