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| | Jacinta and Francisco Marto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | John Paul believes the prayers of people like Jacinta prevented this, and the attempt on his life coming on May 13, 1981, the anniversary of the first apparition at Fatima to be of great significance here, as a sign of the special protection of Mary on that fateful day. |  | | Both lingered for many months, insisting on walking to church to make Eucharistic devotions and prostrating themselves to pray for hours, kneeling with their heads on the ground as instructed by the angel who had first appeared to them. |  | | Following their experiences, their fundamental personalities remained the same; Francisco preferred to pray alone, as he said "to console Jesus for the sins of the world". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinta_and_Francisco_Marto
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| | Independent, The (London): Vatican reveals sinister last secret of Fatima |
 | | Jacinta and Francisco died in childhood from pneumonia and were beatified by the Pope yesterday, but Lucia, who became a nun and is now 93, revealed years later that the first two "secrets" were predictions of the Second World War and the rise and fall of Communism. |  | | The visions of the Virgin attributed to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and their cousin Lucia were controversial from the start. |  | | The shepherds, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, and their cousin, Lucia de Jesus, had said the Virgin told them three secrets. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000514/ai_n14313053
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| | The Defender - Featured Saint |
 | | Francisco's lack of self-interest as well as his secret prayer life are further marks of a true contemplative. |  | | Before she died at the age of 10 she revealed some more of her spiritual and mystical insights. |  | | There is a tendency among devotees of Fatima to think of Jacinta as superior to Francisco, as if Francisco, although Jacinta's elder brother, was spiritually a poor cousin who happened to be present when Our Lady appeared to the girls. |
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http://www.thedefender.org/jun2000saint.html
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| | Messenger of Saint Anthony - The Story of Fatima |
 | | They are Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the younger members of the trio, the brother and sister who died some years after the apparition, when they were respectively nine and eleven years old. |  | | After a long investigation, and having accepted that many people have been cured miraculously through the intercession of Francisco and Jacinta, the Church has concluded that these two children are worthy of being raised to the glory of the altars. |  | | Jacinta was seven years old, Francisco 8 and Lucia 10. |
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http://www.saintanthonyofpadua.net/messaggero/pagina_articolo.asp?R=Documentary&ID=64
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| | Blessed Jacinta and Francisco (Catholic Youth Networking) |
 | | She was particularly struck by the Blessed Virgin's request to pray for sinners, especially after seeing the vision of Hell which Mary showed to the three children. |  | | Seven-year-old Jacinta especially took this request very seriously, even though it had earlier been her idea to save time in reciting the Rosary by only saying the first two words of every prayer! |  | | These apparitions filled the children with a sense of peace and the presence of God, preparing them for the apparitions of Mary which were soon to take place. |
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http://catholicyouth.freeservers.com/saints/jacinta&francisco.htm
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| | Woman Cured by Jacinta and Francisco to Attend Beatification Ceremony |
 | | The Catholic Church accepts officially that this miracle occurred through the divine intercession of Francisco Marto and his sister, Jacinta, then ages nine and seven, who, with their cousin, Lucia, 10, were visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917. |  | | On May 13, 2000, when Pope John Paul II beatifies the two shepherd children of Fatima, a devout woman of 70 will be offering silent prayers of thanks for the fact she can attend the celebration standing on her own feet. |  | | She said one evening in 1987, as she lay in bed, she heard a voice. |
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http://www.fatima.org/news/newsviews/miracle1.asp
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| | Tradition, Family, and Property |
 | | Jacinta and Francisco Marto are the two youngest non-martyrs to be declared blessed in the history of the Church. |  | | Robert Fox, The Faith of the Fatima Shepherds: Spirituality of Blessed Jacinta Marto, part 2, Daily Catholic 2000, May 8, 2000. |  | | Mother Maria of the Purification Godinho, in whom Jacinta confided, wrote down many of the heavenly communications and meditations of the little, young shepherdess which were later published in several books. |
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http://www.tfp.org/magazine/mag46/main.htm
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| | Blessed Francisco Martos (Jacinta and Francisco Marto) - Saint of the Day - American Catholic |
 | | Jacinta died of influenza in Lisbon, offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world and the Holy Father. |  | | Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. |  | | In his homily at their beatification, Pope John Paul II recalled that shortly before Francisco died, Jacinta said to him, Give my greetings to Our Lord and to Our Lady and tell them that I am enduring everything they want for the conversion of sinners. |
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http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.asp?id=1869
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| | Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta Marto |
 | | Little Francisco had a great desire to atone for the offences of sinners by striving to be good and by offering his sacrifices and prayers. |  | | Jacinta for the sacrifices and prayers offered for the Holy Father, whom she saw suffering greatly. |  | | Later Francisco, one of the three privileged children, exclaimed: "We were burning in that light which is God and we were not consumed. |
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http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/travels/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20000513_beatification-fatima_en.html
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| | Society Saint Pius X Communicantes Nov 1999 Editorial |
 | | It is touching to note that Francisco and Jacinta were declared Venerable together, and will be beatified together: in fact, the two of them form a harmonious ensemble because, though the two spiritual physiognomies are very different, they are also very complementary, and depend directly on the apparitions and the words of Our Lady. |  | | My cousins, Francisco and Jacinta, have sacrificed themselves because they saw the Most Holy Virgin very sad in all her apparitions. |  | | Up until the cause for beatification of Jacinta and Francisco, the Sacred Congregation for the Cause of Saints systematically "filed in the archives'' all the processes concerning non-martyred children, being that it seemed difficult to establish heroism in their virtues. |
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http://www.sspx.ca/Communicantes/Mar2000/Small-Seers-of-Fatima.htm
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| | May 4, 2000: The Faith of the Fatima Shepherds (may4cat.htm) |
 | | It was Jacinta who had the vision at the well of the Holy Father with people throwing stones at him. |  | | Jacinta manifested the love of purity that was so characteristic of the Marto and Santo families. |  | | Jacinta is also the youthful soul for proper respect and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament. |
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http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/archives/may2000/87may4,vol.11,no.87txt/may4fat.htm
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| | Portugal - The Undiscovered Country |
 | | Jacinta and Francisco Marto - two of the children that saw the Virgin in 1917. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/winam/travel/portugal/beira/fatima2.htm
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| | Ave Maris Stella Publications |
 | | Francisco died serenely at home, while Jacinta was hospitalized and ended up dying alone. |  | | In 1916, they witnessed three apparitions of an angel, and then in 1917, had several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary that they are most known for. |  | | Then on May 13, 2000 in the same place at Fatima, he declared them blessed. |
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http://www.avemarisstella.com/ams/marto.htm
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| | A BRIEF HISTORY OF FATIMA |
 | | Jacinta and Francisco seemed to be in that part of the light which rose toward heaven, and I in that part which was poured out on the earth. |  | | Although Francisco saw the angel as did Lucia and Jacinta, he could not hear what the angel said. |  | | Lucia and Jacinta would always tell him later what was said. |
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http://www.ladyofallnations.org/fatimahx.htm
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| | Papal News |
 | | The pope said Francisco was preoccupied with Jesus being sad because of sinners. |  | | Dozens of children in the crowd were dressed in costumes to look like the beatification photographs of Jacinta and Francisco complete with dark scarves for the girls and floppy berets for the boys. |  | | During the beatification Mass, the pope asked children to try to be like Jacinta and Francisco in listening to Mary and following her to Jesus. |
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http://www.cdom.org/wtc/wtc_archives/wtc051800/wtc_pages/papal_news.html
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| | : Blessed Francisco et Jacinta Marto |
 | | Jacinta and Francisco appeared to be in a part which was raised towards Heaven, and I was in that which spread on the earth. |  | | These revelations inspired Jacinta with a love-filled fervor in her prayers for the Holy Father. |  | | My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way which will lead you to God.» While saying these words, Lucia relates, «the Blessed Virgin spread her hands, and for the second time, gave to us the reflection of the intense light which enveloped her, in which we saw ourselves as if immersed in God. |
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http://www.clairval.com/lettres/lettre_1.php?id=2271200
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| | Crusader 6 Page 10 |
 | | One day Jacinta persuaded her mother that she knew enough Catechism to be examined by the parish priest, and Senhora Olimpia finally took her to see Father Pena who asked Jacinta questions on Catechism. |  | | Jacinta asked Lucia many questions about Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. |  | | Thus Lucia became the teacher of a very apt pupil, who was not content to learn by rote, but wanted to know the reason for everything. |
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http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr06/cr06pg10.asp
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| | October 29-November 2, 1999 DAILY CATHOLIC TEXT Section One (oct29dc1.htm) |
 | | What can be noted is that the early pictures of Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, while depicting simple peasant children who underwent the suffering of the skeptics of their own time, their faces developed a serenity that can be seen in their eyes, if not on the entire features of their respective faces. |  | | Those last words from Our Lady to Jacinta just before she died strongly reflect what is happening around the world today, especially here in America where priests, bishops and members of the laity are openly defying what Pope John Paul II is decreeing. |  | | She was devastated by Francisco's death, but nevertheless rejoiced that he was in Heaven. |
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http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/99Oct/oct29dc1.htm
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| | John Paul II Fatima Trip Gallery |
 | | The Declaration of Jacinta and Francisco Marto as Blessed represents the next to last stage in the Church's official recognition of their holiness. |  | | They were beatified by the same Pope on May 13, 2000, to the great joy of the faithful, who now pray earnestly for their canonization. |  | | Parents, especially, should be emboldened to encourage holiness in the young, confident that it is possible for anyone, of whatever age, who follows the spiritual advice of Our Lady of Fátima |
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http://www.religion-cults.com/pope/fatima.htm
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| | CBS News Fatima Sighting Nun Dead At 97 February 14, 2005 06:00:01 |
 | | Lucia and two of her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco, said in 1917 that the Virgin Mary had been appearing to them once a month and predicting events, such as world wars, the reemergence of Christianity in Russia, and one that Church officials say foretold the 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. |  | | Above: with Sister Marto, on the day he beatified her cousins - May 13, 2000. |  | | The attack, on May 13, coincided with the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, and John Paul credits the Virgin's intercession for his survival. |
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http://www.buzztracker.org/2005/02/14/cache/464787.html
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| | Imminent canonisation of first two Fatima seers |
 | | His mother and his grandmother, fervent devotees of Francisco and Jacinta, took the child to the Shrine of Fatima and placed him near the tombs of the two Blesseds. |  | | Bishop Ferreira e Silva explained that the document sent to the Vatican includes the opinions of doctors, theologians and bishops regarding the second miracle attributed to the intercession of the children. |  | | Catholic News Agency reports that the bishop also said the Portuguese bishops are hopeful that “Pope John Paul II can proclaim their canonisation and recommend Blesseds Jacinta and Francisco Marto for public veneration by the entire Catholic world.” |
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| | The Children of Fatima |
 | | Jacinta was known to pout if she did not get her own way; Francisco would rather play his flute than say his Rosary; and Lucia helped invent a shortcut to praying the Rosary by reciting the words “Hail Mary” in lieu of the entire prayer. |  | | But Jacinta was gifted with a pretty face and spiritual understanding far beyond her years, and so became the most loved and revered of the Fatima prophets. |  | | I don’t mind!” She said that if Francisco had lived to manhood, his greatest defect would have been his attitude of “never mind!” |
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 | | I was in Fatima on May 12th and 13th, where the pilgrim Pope had gone to raise to the honor of the altars Jacinta and Francisco Marto. |  | | While the square full of people emotionally say goodbye to the Virgin and the Holy Father, waving thousands of white handkerchiefs and singing, I see the tiny dot that appeared on the horizon at 14 years of age and the boat draws closer bearing an ever greater human dignity. |  | | In the face of the terrors of ideologies, persecutions, and wars, at the beginning of this century God chose once again some children to triumph over history. |
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http://www.traces-cl.com/archive/2000/giugno/take.html
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| | Sister Lucia De Jesus Dos Santos (A Complete Obituary) |
 | | On six occasions between May and October 1917, Lucia claimed, the Virgin Mary appeared to her and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, while they tended the family sheep. |  | | When this failed, he cast them for a night into the county jail, where Francisco led the prisoners in prayer and Jacinta danced the fandango with a thief. |  | | She urged them to pray the rosary daily for world peace and to bear their daily hardships as a sacrifice to ensure that sinners reached heaven. |
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| | Rosary Center Secure Order Page |
 | | In this book she answers the countless questions she is asked about the apparitions, its message, and Jacinta and Francisco. |  | | This is a small booklet of 63 pages on the spiritual message of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, to whom Our Lady of the Rosary appeared at Fatima. |  | | This small booklet of 41 pages contains the decrees of the Holy See verifying the heroic virtues of Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto, and the miraculous cure that came about through their intercession. |
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http://www.pacifier.com/~rosarweb/nresource.htm
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| | Our Lady of Fatima by William T. Walsh - Meditation |
 | | What was important to meditate and pray for nearly 100 years ago is even more needed today, and that is sending loving thoughts to all creation for the transformation of coldness and separation into kindness and caring with all our world family. |  | | May the events in the lives of the children, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco Marto inspire your spiritual life as they have mine - even to the extent that I took the name 'Jacinta' at my confirmation. |
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 | | She said Francisco and Jacinta would soon leave the world for Heaven. |  | | They had come to observe a miracle which had been foretold by the Blessed Virgin to three young visionaries: Lucia dos Santos, and her two cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. |  | | She said to Jacinta before she died, "I can no longer restrain the hand of my Divine Son from striking the world with just punishment for its many crimes." |
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| | Last Seer of Fatima … from Our S |
 | | When the Kingdom comes, it will be the Francisco and Jacinta Martos who will take the places of the monarchs and generals in the halls of glory. |  | | I want to introduce two illiterate peasant children, brother and sister, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, both beatified by the Catholic Church. |  | | The reason why is one of those glorious and simple paradoxes by which heaven confounds our logic and unseats our arrogance. |
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http://www.osv.com/Enewsletter/newsletter021605.htm
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| | Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome |
 | | I also express my appreciation to Blessed Jacinta for the sacrifices and prayers offered for the Holy Father, whom she saw suffer so much. |  | | The Holy Father spoke about Francisco, who constantly thought of Jesus, saddened because of sins, for which he wanted to console him. |  | | She invited them to offer themselves as victims of reparation, saying she was prepared to take them safely to God." |
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| | Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome |
 | | "I can affirm that on February 19 the so-called 'positio' was handed in for the canonization of Jacinta and Francisco Marto," said Bishop Serafim Ferreira e Silva announced Sunday during a liturgical celebration of Blessed Jacinta and Francisco, in the Fatima Shrine, according to the agency Ecclesia. |  | | At the end of the celebration, Bishop Ferreira e Silva explained that the closing of the "position" means "that the documentary process is complete, translated into Italian, definitively closed and handed to His Eminence the cardinal prefect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes. |  | | Jacinta and Francisco were beatified May 13, 2000, the day of the anniversary of the Fatima apparitions. |
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http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=66754
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| | Warnings |
 | | In front of his house, there are many people, and some are throwing stones at him, others are cursing him and saying very foul words to him. |  | | In a reported conversation between two of the Fatima children, Jacinta asked Lucia if she could tell others more about it. |  | | And he is possibly the same, and not-to-distant, pontiff who seems destined for a cruel execution, in the manner of Christ, as foretold in the prophecy of Pope Pius IX: |
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http://www.eclipseofthechurch.com/Warnings.htm
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Three Secrets of Fatima |
 | | From May to October, 1917, three young Portuguese shepherds, Lucia Abobora dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, claimed to have witnessed an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. |  | | A few months later, the text was released by the Vatican, together with a discussion of the meaning of the text. |  | | Finally, during a visit to Portugal for the beatification of the visionaries Francisco and Jacinta (Lucia was still alive), Pope John Paul II announced through his Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, that he had decided to make the text of the third secret public. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/T/TH/THR/Three_Secrets_of_Fatima
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| | Interview with Maria Emilia Santos, who was supposedly cured by the Virgin of Fatima |
 | | At the end of the 1940s, the Jesuit priest Antonio Leite wrote to the bishop of Leiria, reminding him that 30 years had gone by since the death of Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the period which, at that time, the Catholic Church required to begin the process of beatification of the two children. |  | | The cure that Maria Emília talks about occurred in the São Francisco Rest Home, in Leiria, where she still lives. |  | | This was confirmed by the miracle which Maria Emília Santos, 70 years old, alleges to have occurred: after more than two decades paralyzed in her legs, Emília Santos says that the prayer she made to the two seers made her walk again. |
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| | Search:Fatima - OXiDE |
 | | Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto - Feast is February 20. |  | | She was adopted at the age of 14. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto: Shepherds of Fatima: Books |
 | | Amazon.ca: Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto: Shepherds of Fatima: Books |  | | Look for books like Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto: Shepherds of Fatima by subject: |  | | Top of Page : Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto: Shepherds of Fatima |
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| | BBC News EUROPE Pope blesses Fatima children |
 | | Jacinta and Francisco Marto are the first children to be proclaimed blessed, which is the first step towards canonisation. |  | | Pope John Paul II has conducted an historic ceremony in Portugal to beatify two shepherd children who in 1917 reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary on a hillside near the town of Fatima. |  | | They both died from influenza before they reached the age of 11. |
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| | Astrology Software for Research - Francisco Marto - astrology chart |
 | | On a spring day in 1916, three peasant children, Lucia dos Santos and her two cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, ages nine, eight and six, were tending sheep when they first began to see the visions. |  | | Due to the contagious nature of the disease, their remains were covered with quicklime: nonetheless, when the bodies were examined in 1951, Jacinta's body was found to be in perfect condition. |  | | This chart is presented in combination with The Miracle of Fatima, and the three children who saw the visions: Lucia dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and |
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| | Vatican to reveal the ‘Third Secret’ 5-29-2000 |
 | | Lucy dos Santos was 10 at the time, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto were aged nine and seven. |  | | Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano announced this at the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal following the Mass during which Pope John Paul II beatified Jacinta and Francisco Marto, two of the three famed shepherd children who saw the apparitions. |  | | The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the children six times between May 13 and Oct. 13, 1917, at the Cova da Iria near the village of Fatima in Portugal. |
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| | The Truth, Newsletter of Les Femmes |
 | | The brave little soldier revealed to Lucia the last suffering the Blessed Mother would ask of her. |  | | Vision of Hell revealed to Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia: |  | | So many!" Readers, please pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy daily for the world's conversion and dedicate yourselves to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. |
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| | Marto - Princesses of the Kingdom, Jacinta Marto & Nellie Organ - Leo |
 | | Amazon.com: The Children of Fatima: Blessed Francisco and Blessed |  | | Jacinta Marto is well known as one of the visionaries of Fatima. |  | | Amazon.com: The Children of Fatima: Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta Marto (Children of Fatima): Books: Leo Madigan by Leo Madigan. |
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 | | On May 13, 2000, Pope John Paul II beatified Jacinta and Francisco, raising them to the honors of the altar. |  | | This section acquaints the reader with the three children - Lucia dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto - to whom Our Lady appeared at Fatima, and describes their unique characters, family life and heroic faith. |  | | Read the many interesting eyewitness accounts of the Miracle of the Sun, which took place during Our Lady's final apparition at Fatima. |
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| | OurLady'sSufferingMessenger:SisterLucia |
 | | Sister Lucia has been reunited in Heaven with her cousins, Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto. |  | | Father Mason was tenderly devoted to Our Lady, teaching us early on about the message of Our Lady of Fatima and the lives of the shepherd children to whom she had appeared in 1917, Jacinta and Francisco Marto and their cousin, Lucia dos Santos. |  | | Father Mason stressed the fact that Our Lady had appeared to simple children, who believed in all simplicity that they had been visited by the Mother of God. |
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| | Fatima on Encyclopedia.com |
 | | The children say they saw the Virgin Mary six times in 1917. |  | | The gift shops of Fatima sell souvenir medallions of the beatified children, Francisco and Jacinta Marto. |
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| | Center of Scientific Divulgation about Consciousness |
 | | Fátima was named for a 12th-century Moorish princess and since 1917 has been one of the greatest Marian shrines in the world, visited by thousands of pilgrims annually. |  | | On May 13, 1917, and in each subsequent month until October of that year, three young peasant children, Lucia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, reportedly saw a lady who identified herself as the Lady of the Rosary. |  | | On October 13, a crowd (generally estimated at about 70,000) gathered at Fátima witnessed a "miraculous solar phenomenon" immediately after the lady had appeared to the children. |
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