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Jacinta Marto
Portuguese visionary and Roman Catholic saint
Feast: 20 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Francisco de Jesus Marto (11 June 1908 – 4 April 1919) and Jacinta de Jesus Marto (5 March 1910 – 20 February 1920) were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reportedly witnessed three apparitions of the Angel of Peace in 1916, and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Cova da Iria in 1917. The title Our Lady of Fátima was given to the Virgin Mary as a result, and the Sanctuary of Fátima became a major centre of global Catholic pilgrimage.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Francisco Marto Saint Brother or sister
- Dominic Savio Saint“Savio was canonised a saint on 12 June 1954 by Pope Pius XII, making him the youngest non-martyr to be canonised in the Catholic Church, until the canonisations of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, the pious visionaries of Fatima (aged 10 and 9 respectively), in 2017.” — Wikipedia
- Manuel Nunes Formigão Venerable“Formigão was one of the first people to look into the phenomenon of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima, having been the clergyman sent by the Diocese of Leiria in 1917 to question the three little shepherd children Lúcia dos Santos and Francisco and Jacinta Marto to ascertain the veracity of the apparitions.” — Wikipedia
- Sister Lúcia Venerable“Sister Lúcia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto claimed to have witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917.” — Wikipedia
- Santi, beati e testimoni - SantaGiacinta Marto — Santiebeati.it, the Italian Catholic saints dictionary, carries a full entry: SantaGiacinta Marto - Fanciulla | Aljustrel, Portogallo, 11 marzo 1910 - Lisbona, Portogalo, 20 febbraio 1920.
- Wikidata Q206278 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Jacinta Marto (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.