The original statue of Our Lady of Fatima will make a rare journey from its shrine in Portugal to Rome in October 2025 for a Jubilee celebration of Marian spirituality.
The statue will be present in St Peter’s Square 12 October for the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality, the Vatican announced 27 February.
The statue has embedded in its crown one of the bullets from the attempted assassination of St John Paul II in 1981. A Turkish gunman shot the pope on 13 May, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, and the Polish pope credited her with saving his life.
He travelled to Fatima the next year to offer his thanks in person. The Marian jubilee will offer pilgrims the chance to cross the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica and partake in a prayer vigil at the Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome—considered the oldest Marian shrine in the West.
The Jubilee will be only the fourth time the statue has left the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima for Rome.
first occasion was in 1984 when St John Paul II consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
It returned during the Holy Year 2000 and again in 2013 for the Year of Faith, which marked 50 years since the opening of the Second Vatican Council.
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