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Exclusive Gift Set 22 – St Jacinta and St Francisco
Exclusive Gift Set 22 – St Jacinta is one of the children Our Lady appeared to at Fatima.
The youngest children of Manuel and Olimpia Marto, Francisco, and Jacinta were typical of Portuguese village children of that time. They were illiterate but had a rich oral tradition. Francisco somewhat musically inclined and liked to be by himself to think. Saint Jacinta was affectionate with a sweet singing voice and a gift for dancing. Following their experiences, their fundamental personalities remained the same.
Their personalities
Francisco preferred to pray alone, saying that this would “console Jesus for the sins of the world”. Jacinta said she deeply affected by a terrifying vision of Hell shown to the children at the third apparition, and deeply convinced of the need to save sinners through penance and sacrifice as the Virgin had told the children to do. All three children, but particularly Francisco and Jacinta, practiced stringent self mortifications to this end.
Apparitions
The brother and sister, who tended to their families’ sheep with their cousin Lúcia in the fields of Fátima, Portugal, are said to have witnessed several apparitions of an angel in 1916. Lúcia later recorded the words of several prayers she said they learned from this angel.[2]
Sister Lúcia wrote in her memoirs that she and her cousins saw the first apparition of Mary on 13 May 1917. At the time of the apparition, Francisco was 8 years old, and Jacinta was 7.
During the first apparition, Mary is said to have asked the three children to say the Rosary and to make sacrifices, offering them for the conversion of sinners.[6] She also asked them to return to that spot on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months.
St Francisco is one of the children Our Lady appeared to at Fatima.
The youngest children of Manuel and Olimpia Marto, Francisco and Jacinta were typical of Portuguese village children of that time. They were illiterate but had a rich oral tradition. Francisco, somewhat musically inclined, and liked to be by himself to think. Jacinta was affectionate with a sweet singing voice and a gift for dancing. Following their experiences, their fundamental personalities remained the same.
Their personalities
Francisco preferred to pray alone, saying that this would “console Jesus for the sins of the world”. Jacinta said she deeply affected by a terrifying vision of Hell shown to the children at the third apparition, and deeply convinced of the need to save sinners through penance and sacrifice as the Virgin had told the children to do. All three children, but particularly St Francisco and Jacinta, practised stringent self mortifications to this end. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the report that confirmed Jacinta as beatified, observed that she seemed to have “an insatiable hunger for immolation.”
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