Our Lady of Fatima Icon on tour
Our Lady of Fatima Icon is on tour. This month the stop is in San Antonio, Texas. Thousands of people will come from all over to see and pray before a replica statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
Mothers and Fathers with their children and people of all walks of life will stop to see the statue.
The statue will be in San Antonio thru January 24th as part of a worldwide tour. Sculpted in 1947, it is the official traveling statue for the Marian devotion, which is experiencing renewed popularity in the United States.
It was in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal that the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to three shepherd children and miraculously revealed a message of personal piety, repentance and prayer. A statue and shrine were built at the site and the traveling statue was fashioned according to the account of one of the shepherd children.
Many people have stated that the statue has shed actual tears. 