Statue of Our Lady of Fatima going to Marian Day in Rome on the same Day as the Rosary Crusade in London!
In response to the desire of Holy
Father Francis, the Statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima,
venerated in the Little Chapel of Apparitions, will be brought to Rome
on October 12/13 to be present at the Marian Day promoted by the
Pontifical Council for the
Promotion of the New Evangelization.
On October 13, next to the Statue of Our Lady, Pope Francis will make
the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Marian Day is one of the great
pontifical events marked down on the calendar of celebrations of the
Year of Faith which will bring to Rome hundreds of movements and
institutions connoted with Marian devotion.
In a letter addressed to Bishop
Antonio Marto, of Leiria-Fatima, the President of the Pontifical Council
for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Cardinal Rino Fisichella,
informs that “all ecclesial entities of Marian spirituality” are invited
to take part in this Marian day, a gathering which includes, on the
12th, a pilgrimage to the tomb of Apostle St. Peter and other moments of
prayer and meditation and, on the 13th, a Mass presided over by Pope
Francis, in St. Peter’s Square.
In that letter, Cardinal Fisichella
wrote: “The Holy Father strongly desires that the Marian Day may have
present, as a special sign, one of the most significant Marian icons for
Christians throughout the world and, for that reason, we thought of the
beloved original Statue of Our Lady of Fatima”.
Therefore, the Statue of Our Lady will
depart from the Shrine of Fatima on the morning of October 12 and
return on the afternoon of October 13. Scheduled to take its place in
the Little Chapel of Apparitions is the first Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady
of Fatima, which is enthroned in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary
since December 8, 2003.
(information published on the Official website of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal
by LeopolDina Simões)
A good opportunity to join our prayers to those of the Holy Father!
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