Jacinta Marto
1910-1920 20th century Feast day: February 20
A child's prayer for the world, the simple offering of small sorrows.
Who was Jacinta Marto?
The youngest of the three shepherd children of Fátima. After the apparitions of 1917 she multiplied prayers and small sacrifices for sinners and for peace. Taken by the influenza epidemic, she died alone in a Lisbon hospital, at nine years old.
In their own words
If people only knew what eternity is, they would do everything to change their lives.
I so love to tell Jesus that I love him. When I tell him often, I seem to have a fire in my breast, yet it does not burn me.
Console your Lord, and pray much for sinners.