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On Saturday 18^th February 2017, the Westminster Cathedral, in London, received the visit of the national Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima and the relics of Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto. This event promoted by the World Apostolate of Fatima in England and Wales marked the beginning of the Fatima Centennial celebrations and the journey of Our Lady’s statue around the cathedrals of the country, during this year.    

On this occasion, the Pilgrim Virgin Statue, blessed in 1967 by Pope

The Bishops of Panama have consecrated on March 5, their country to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in the presence of one of the Pilgrim Virgin Statues coming from the Shrine of Fatima to visit the country for a month.

The visitation program was assisted by the World Apostolate of Fatima of the country that considered this to be a great privilege and also an opportunity to begin preparing the World Youth Day of year 2019, that will be hosted in Panama.

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The so called “United Nations Statue of Our Lady of Fatima” under custody of the World Apostolate of Fatima, is visiting, on May 12, 2017 the United Nations headquarters, in New York, as part of an event to mark the Centennial of Our Lady’ Apparitions. This is the second time this particular statue goes to the United Nations. The first time was on December 8, 1952

Pope Francis, meeting with the cardinals in a consistory, announced that the canonization of Francisco and Jacinta Marto would take place on the 13^th of May 2017, in Fatima, on the celebration of the centennial of the apparitions and during the pilgrimage of His Holiness to the Shrine of Fatima.

The World Apostolate of Fatima rejoices with the gift of sanctity of the first two non-martyr children to be proclaimed saints in the whole of Church

The confirmation that Pope Francis had accepted the invitation to come on pilgrimage to Fatima on the 12th and 13th of May, to mark the celebration of the centennial of Our Lady’s first apparition in Fatima, was received with much joy. It will be a short pilgrimage that will include the canonization of Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto.

The theme of the Pope’s visit is: “With Mary, I go on pilgrimage in hope and peace”. The Shrine of Fatima has created an official site with relevant