A Soon-To-Be Saint Is Honored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                           Yesterday was the Feast Day Of Blessed Jacinta Marto.  She was the holiest child of Fatima, and the first one Mary took to Heaven.

                             Her brother, Francisco, followed shortly thereafter, while their cousin, Lucita Santos, remained on Earth for nearly a century, in religious servitude.  But it was Jacinta, the youngest of the visionaries, who epitomized the spiritual innocence at the core of Fatima, and who endured deprivation, and physical suffering, including an operation minus anaesthesia, the pain of which she offered up to the Mary, the Lord, and the sufferings of others.  All this, before she was ten years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             Yesterday was the anniversary of her death.  And it is said that, next year, which is the Centennial year of Fatima, the three visionaries will be canonized as saints.

                               I hope so.  And I am sorry I did not get to  post this yesterday.

                               So, remember Jacinta, and what she did for us all!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               A remarkable child, indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!