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ADDOLORATA

Our Lady of Sorrows. Popular title of the Blessed Virgin, and object of special devotion among the faithful.

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Easter

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of Our Lady of Fatima; Minor Rogation Day

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Today the Church celebrates an Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, which is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary following apparitions to three shepherd children — Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco — in Portugal in 1917. The message of Fatima includes a call to conversion of heart, repentance from sin and a…

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