Relic medal Saint Francisco Marto 3rd class patron Bodily ills Portuguese children Captives People ridiculed for their piety Prisoners Sick people Against sickness Fatima Portugal Blessed Virgin

3rd class Relic 0.5" medal of Blessed Francisco Marto The Saint Francisco Marto (June 11, 1908 - April 4, 1919) and his sister Jacinta Marto (March 11, 1910 - February 20, 1920), also known as Saint Francisco Marto and Saint Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos (1907-2005) were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917. Their reported visions of Our Lady of Fátima proved politically controversial, and gave rise to a major centre of world Christian pilgrimage. Patron of bodily ills; captives; people ridiculed for their piety; prisoners; sick people; against sickness