page_title: Pontevedra apparitions
section_title: First apparition
hierarchical_section_title: Pontevedra apparitions / First apparition
caption_attribution_description: Español: Pontevedra, Galicia (España). Santuario de las apariciones. Antiguo colegio de las Madres Doroteas en donde residió Sor Lucía después de las apariciones de la virgen en Fátima. Aquí se apareció en 1925.
context_page_description: The Pontevedra apparitions are the Marian apparitions that Sister Lúcia, the Portuguese visionary of Our Lady of Fátima, reported receiving while living in a Dorothean convent in Spain.
context_section_description: Eight years after the Fátima events the last surviving seer, now Sister Lúcia, was living in a Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, Spain.
  According to Sister Lúcia, on December 10, 1925, she experienced a vision of the Holy Virgin and the Christ Child. The Virgin showed her a heart encircled by thorns, which she was holding in her hand. During this alleged apparition, the Child Jesus asked Sister Lúcia "...have compassion on the heart of your most holy Mother, covered with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them.”
  At this point, the Virgin Mary is said to have set the parameters of the Five First Saturdays devotion. If one fulfilled these conditions on the First Saturday of five consecutive months, the Virgin Mary promised special graces at the hour of death.
  The First Saturdays devotion had already been an established custom in the Catholic Church. On July 1, 1905, Pope Pius X approved and granted indulgences for the practice of the first Saturdays of twelve consecutive months in honor of the Immaculate Conception. This apparition at Pontevedra requesting the establishment of the devotion of the Five First Saturdays is reminiscent of the apparitions reported by Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 17th century which led to the establishment of the First Friday Devotion.
  Some devotees of Our Lady of Fatima believe the devotion of the Communion of Reparation on the Five First Saturdays, is an important part of the Message of Fátima.
caption: Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, now known as the Sanctuary of the Apparitions, in which Sister Lúcia lived and received Marian apparitions.
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