Made possible by the Communal First Saturdays Apostolate
Why is this statue historic and so unique?
This statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Child Jesus from the image above is so unique and historic for several reasons. First of all, it is a real 44-inch statue that the Communal First Saturdays Apostolate (CFSA) helped design and commission. This statue depicts Jesus and Mary’s request for the spread of the First Saturdays devotion. It is also hand-carved and hand-painted. 20 different artists worked on this statue. It was blessed en el first day of the new Vatican-Declared Jubilee, on the 100th Anniversary of the apparition, on December 10, 2025 where the actual apparition took place in Pontevedra, by His Excellency Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic. The blessing took place on the grounds of the apparition site but also in the specific area where the Child Jesus came back 2 months later, on February 15, 1926, to ask all of us through the person of Lucia if the First Saturdays have been spread throughout the world.
CFSA, Jubilee Year, and Historic Statue
The statue was blessed en el first day of the new Vatican-Declared Jubilee (Dec. 10, 2025-December 10, 2026), on the 100th Anniversary of the apparition, on December 10, 2025 in honor of apparition that revealed the First Saturdays devotion of reparation.
(3 apparitions related to the First Saturdays devotion took place in Pontevedra, Spain. All are part of 12 apparitions that make up the Fatima Message. The first 9 took place in Fatima, Portugal).
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The statue was blessed for evangelical and catechetical purposes.
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The blessing took place on the grounds of the apparition site but also in the specific area where the Child Jesus came back 2 months later, on February 15, 1926, to ask all of us through the person of Lucia if the First Saturdays have been spread throughout the world. The CFSA’s mission is to answer this question with a resounding yes!
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To celebrate this Jubilee Year and the 100th Anniversary of the February 15, 1926 Apparition, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church will be the first parish in the United States to welcome this historic statue. All are welcome. See: https://communalfirstsaturdays.org/statue-STAOP/