Weekend Marian Day in Rome
October 11, 2013 - Some 150 thousand faithful are converging on Rome this weekend
for a two day Marian Day in the current Year of Faith with Pope Francis, in the presence
of the original statue of the Virgin Mary from the renowned Marian sanctuary of Fatima,
Portugal. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council
for Promoting New Evangelization, held a press conference in the Vatican providing
details of the Oct. 12-13 celebration on the theme “You are Blessed because You Believed!”
The two-day event coincides with the anniversary of the 1st Marian apparition
in Fatima to the 3 shepherd children, Lucy, Jacinta and Francis, on Oct. 13, 1917.
Saturday morning there will be a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Peter in St. Peter’s
Basilica and in the afternoon Pope Francis will preach a homily to participants.
A solemn procession with the statue of Fatima will be held in the evening in the square
and the Vatican and end up in the Divina Amore (Divine Love) Church, on the outskirts
of Rome. Sunday morning the statue will make is way back to St. Peter’s Square in
a procession for an open-air Mass by the Pope, which will include a pledge of trust
to the Virgin Mary and the ‘Angelus’ prayer. 
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