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The Capelinha Statue
In 1917, from May to October, in Cova da Iria, the three piffling shepherds, Lúcia, Jacinta and Francisco, saw above a small holm oak "a Lady brighter than the sun" who gave them the "message of Fatima". Since that twelvemonth, 1917, driven by the Catholic faith, the phenomenon of the apparitions and the inspiring message of Fatima are spread worldwide, with the main ambassador the Prototype of Our Lady of Fatima Peregrina, that has traveled the v continents.
| Withal, the image of Our Lady of Fatima which is venerated in the Chapel of the Apparitions of Fatima' Sanctuary, work of the saint maker José Ferreira Thedim, and offered in 1920, by Gilberto Fernandes dos Santos, leaves very rarely, only on special occasions. It is protected by a bong jar, on a column located in the verbal spot where it was the holm oak in which Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta saw and heard Our Lady. Shortly before midnight, every 24-hour interval, is removed and taken to another location, returning only in the morn before the first commemoration. |  |
The most attentive have already noticed that the Lady of Fatima "Capelinha" has two crowns. The silver gold crown, used daily and the "Precious Crown" too called "Rich" crown, in gold and precious stones, for the days with great celebrations, particularly on the 13th day, from May to October.
The symbol of the power of the Crown, which Our Lady of Fatima displays, didn't announced with Her at the time of the bogeyman to the little shepherds of Fatima.
The creation of these crowns, only copies, dates back to 1941, when a group of Portuguese women carried out a national entrada jewelry gathering to manufacture a queen's crown intended to be offered to Our Lady of Fatima, in thanksgiving for the fact that Portugal didn't entered the Second World War. They asked for jewelry and not money, to materialize the crown direct with the gifts of each person.
This gathering resulted in coming together with a significant number of jewels in gilded, silverish and precious stones that were delivered to Casa Leitão & Irmão, the sometime crown jewelers, for its product. As the generosity of the offers was so groovy, in the year of 1942, take been prepared for free, ii crowns: 1 in silver gilt and another in gold and precious stones. Both queen's crowns, as Our Lady had been crowned Queen of Portugal in 1646, by D. João Four.
For three months, worked on the crowns 12 jewelers/goldsmiths, that from the total or partial butchering of the jewelry, fused gold and dug 2,992 precious stones, according to drawings created by Casa Leitão, which highlight 8 rods of gold, corresponding heraldically to a queen's crown.
This grand and glorious work resulted in a precious work of the Portuguese Jewelery known as the "Crown of Our Lady of Fatima", which is the virtually remarkable work of the twentieth century portuguese jewelery and simultaneously the best known worldwide.
The golden crown, that weights 1200g it is enriched by 2,992 precious stones, including 1400 diamonds, 950 rhinestones, 313 pearls, 260 turquoises, 33 sapphires, 17 rubies, 13 small emerald, a big emerald, a amethyst and iv aquamarines that form the four large rectangular transparent buds at the base of the crown.
The Rich Crown of Our Lady of Fatima became an important gemological testimony, in improver to its devotional value at the Marian cult that would larn over the years.
The Coronation of Our Lady of Fatima
 | On 13th October, 1942, a grouping of Portuguese women in representation of the Portuguese people offers the golden crown to the sculpture of the Chapel of the Apparitions in gratitude for their husbands and children were spared the drama of the 2d World War. But it is merely on 13th May, 1946, at Fatima, that Primal Benedict Aloisi Masella, Pontifical Legate, formally crown for the first time the sculture of Our Lady of Fatima. |
The coronation of Our Lady of Fatima is reflected in a tombstone, by the entrance of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary's presbytery, in Fatima' Sanctuary.
Pope John Paul II and the bullet assault
On 13th May, 1981, Pope John Paul 2 suffers an attack at St. Peter's Foursquare, at the Vatican, attributing their salvation to the intervention of Our Lady of Fatima, which had him protected.
On March 25th, 1984, Karol Wojtyla does at St. Peter'southward Foursquare, at the Vatican, the World Induction to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, earlier the sculpture of Virgin of Fatima, which traveled at the request of the Pope, purposely from the Chapel of the Apparitions at Fatima.
The deceased Supreme Pontiff met with the then Bishop of Fatima, D. Alberto Cosme do Amaral, and offered the bullet fired by the Turkish Ali Agca and pierced his body in the assault that was victim, every bit gratitude to the Virgin for salvage his life, and said at the fourth dimension "I have here a gift to Our Lady".
The "Mystery" of the Crown
After some time looking for the best place to store such precious object, the Bishop and the Canctuary's Parson decided to imbed information technology in the Rich Crown of Our Lady, used only in the most solemn ceremonies.
Casa Gomes, from Póvoa de Varzim, was entrusted to bear out its placement. When the experts were placing the bullet in the Virgin'south Crown and were looking for a place to fit it without compromising the art of the Crown, plant out that, interestingly in the inside of the original manufacture of the crown, in 1942, and on the place where are joined the 8 queen rods, immediately beneath the sky bluish orb, was forming a void that was the perfect fit and adequated to the bullet's quotient, so it was placed there by crimping in 1989, where information technology remains today.
And the astonishing coincidence contributed to the mystery surrounding the crown of Our Lady of Fatima and the special relationship that John Paul Two had with Mariano miracle.
The crown of Our Lady of Fatima is probably "the virtually important jewelry fabricated in Portugal".
Known as "precious crown", is placed on the sculpture of Our Lady only in the peregrination aniversaries or other considered special occasions, existence in the remaining days stored in the edifice of the Sanctuary's Rectory, in front end of the Chapel of the Apparitions, which tin be seen in the open to public exhibition "Fatima Light and Peace ', that displays representative examples of the offers made to Our Lady or to her Sanctuary.
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