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Feature News | Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Candlelight procession kicks off months-long Fatima celebration

Hundreds gather at St. Michael Church in Miami May 13

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried around St. Michael Church during the candlelight procession May 13.

Photographer: MARLENE QUARONI | FC

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried around St. Michael Church during the candlelight procession May 13.

Max Gabaldon, 8, and Gabriel Echevarria, 6, carry candles in the procession around the grounds of St. Michael the Archangel Church in Miami.

Photographer: MARLENE QUARONI | FC

Max Gabaldon, 8, and Gabriel Echevarria, 6, carry candles in the procession around the grounds of St. Michael the Archangel Church in Miami.

MIAMI | To kick off a months-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, St. Michael the Archangel Church hosted a day of prayer May 13 that concluded with a Mass and candlelight procession .

Subsequent celebrations, organized by the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, will take place in different archdiocesan parishes until October. The schedule is as follows:

Haitian-American Angel Thomas prays before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima inside St. Michael Church.

Photographer: MARLENE QUARONI | FC

Haitian-American Angel Thomas prays before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima inside St. Michael Church.


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