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Radio Veritas is inviting the public to venerate the first class relics “ex ossibus” (from the bones) of Blessed Jacinta and Blessed Francisco, the “x sanguine” (from the blood) relic of Saint Padre Pio from the Vatican as well as the image of Our Lady of Fatima on October 14, 2016 at the Our Lady of Veritas Chapel in Quezon City.
Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto together with their cousin Lúcia Santos were children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said to witnessed six apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary from May 13 to October 13, 1917. As a result of these apparitions, Mary was given the title Our Lady of Fátima and Fátima became a major center of world Christian pilgrimage.
Blessed Virgin told them that she had been sent by God with a message for every man, woman and child living in our century. Coming at a time when civilization was torn asunder by war and bloody violence, she promised that Heaven would grant peace to all the world if her requests for prayer, reparation and consecration were heard and obeyed.
In all her appearances at Fatima, the Blessed Mother repeatedly emphasized the necessity of praying the Rosary daily, of wearing the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel and of performing acts of reparation and sacrifice. She also asked that the faithful must practice a new devotion of reparation on the first Saturday of five consecutive months (“The Five First Saturdays”).
In 1918, Francisco and Jacinta succumbed to the flu epidemic. Francisco died on April 4, 1919, at the age of ten and Jacinta died at the age of nine on February 20,1920. Olímpia Marto said that her children happily predicted their own deaths many times to her and to curious pilgrims. They were beatified by Pope John Paul II on May 13, 2000.
Meanwhile, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina was a friar, priest and mystic famous of bearing the stigmata for most of his life. He was beatified in 1999 and was declared as saint on June 16, 2002 by then Pope now Saint John Paul II. Padre Pio is the patron of civil defense volunteers, adolescents, and the village of Pietrelcina. His feast day is commemorated every September 23.
Devotees seeking healing and other petitions may visit the image and relics from 10:00am to 5:00pm at the Radio Veritas Chapel located at the second floor of Veritas Tower, 162 West Avenue cor EDSA in Quezon City. For inquiries, please call Ms. Renee Jose or Mr. Rey Isabela at (02) 925-7932 to 39 local 129.
Radio Veritas 846, the number one faith-based Radio in the Philippines, is owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Manila. Established in 1969, the Ramon Magsaysay recipient Catholic radio station continues to be the leading social communications ministry for truth and new evangelization in the country today.
