Saint Who?
Saints Who Promoted Marian Devotion
Our Lady of Fatima
Feast: May 13
In July of 1917, after the three children of Fatima saw a vision of hell, the Virgin Mary told them: “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…. I shall come to ask for the Communion of Reparation on the first Saturdays.”
When Mary appeared to Lúcia—now a Dorothean novice—in 1925, she asked for a devotion to be practiced over five consecutive first Saturdays—a number corresponding to five particular offenses: those against her Immaculate Conception, perpetual virginity, and motherhood, both of God and man, as well as attempts to make Mary’s children turn against her and insults to her in her images.
Eager to help her children onto the right path, she told Lúcia, “Announce in my name that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturday for five consecutive months go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the rosary, with intention of making reparation.”
Beloved Lord, inspire in our hearts the same fervor which you feel for your Mother and help us
to make her known, loved, and honored.
