Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

This monument stands at the center of the Prayer Area in front of the Chapel of Apparitions.

The image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is made of bronze, author unknown. Was offered by a stranger and solemnly blessed by the Apostolic Nuncio, Mgr. Beda Cardinale, on May 13, 1932.

This picture reminds us that the Message of Fatima also speaks in the Heart of Jesus, either in the apparitions of the Angel, whether through Our Lady, which is the path that leads to love of God.

Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

After the new revelations by Sister Lucia's appearance on July 13, 1917, in which Our Lady showed the seers your Immaculate Heart, new images were carved under this invocation, the first of which, also by the sculptor Joseph Thedim, is the Caramel of Coimbra.
On May 13, 1958, opened a large statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, sculpted by Father Thomas McGlynn, OP, under indication of Sister Lucy, and placed in the niche on the façade of the Basilica on June 13, 1959. Is the height of 4.73 m and weighs 13 tons.



This image, supply of American Catholics, evokes the message content on the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Lady mentioned in the first three appearances of the Cova da Iria and Pontevedra apparitions: the devotion of the first five Saturdays, the consecration Russia and the triumph of her Immaculate Heart.