ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 20th of February WELCOME! SAINTS FRANCISCO AND JACINTA MARTO Saint Francisco Marto, born 1908 and his sister Saint Jacinta, two years his junior together with Lucia dos Santos, their cousin, from the Fatima area in Portugal, witnessed several apparitions of an angel and of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1916/17 while tending their parents' sheep. THEY COMMENCED A LIFE OF PRAYER AND PENANCE Following the onset of the apparitions, the two siblings commenced a life of prayer and penance to console the Lord Jesus for the sins of the world, and for the conversion of poor sinners. In August 1918, Francisco and his sister both became gravely ill during the dreaded influenza epidemic, and died not long after. They had been prepared for this by Our Lady during one of her apparitions. The siblings were canonised in 2017. *********** THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC THAT SWEPT THE WORLD IN 1918 “I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon,” our ...