World’s Largest Statue of Our Lady of Fatima Inaugurated in Brazil

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

WOW ---- I just stumbled upon this on YouTube. I never heard of it coming even though it took over a year to create and erect in Crato, Brazil on November 13th....just three days ago. This is great news and how we need great news. How is Pope Leo going to take to this? Rome has downplayed Fatima since the start. Luckily, we had amazing Popes in the day when She first came to Portugal. This is an approved visit of Our Lady.....not sure it would be approved today.....too much doom and gloom....but there is also great instruction, love and hope for a world that has lost the sight of God. Our good and holy Queen Mother only wants to draw us back to Her Son and warn us of what could happen if we do not turn back to Him.

Below is a little info from The National Catholic Register about this event but I am going to be searching for more articles. The full article is linked below as well as a video of the event. BRAVO BRAZIL!!!!

"But how did a Marian devotion that originates in Portugal come to flourish in this South American city? It all began exactly 72 years ago, on Nov. 13, 1953, when Crato received for the first time the visit of the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima.

The Pilgrim statue, sent by the Sanctuary of Fatima in Portugal, was taken to the main square of the city of Crato, drawing the faithful, authorities and the general population. And there are reports of favors after the statue’s passage through the streets. At the end of that month, the Crato cathedral received as a gift a replica of Our Lady’s statue that is housed in Fatima’s Chapel of the Apparitions, marking the site of the 1917 Marian apparition to the three Portuguese shepherd children.

Consequently, devotion to Our Lady of Fatima has flourished in the region. New parishes were created under this Marian title, and several public facilities in the city, such as daycare centers, schools, streets and neighborhoods, began to bear Our Lady’s name.

More recently, in 2014, a 147-foot-high sculpture of Our Lady of Fatima was inaugurated there, at the time the largest in Brazil. But criticism mounted — over its questionable beauty and its departure from the original image. From there, a desire arose to replace the existing sculpture and restructure the surrounding space to foster a greater experience of Marian spirituality.
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Father Arileudo Machado, the monument’s administrator, began the search for the right artist for this mission and found Ranilson Viana, a young Brazilian sculptor whose works are known for their detailed realism and ability to evoke emotions.
With an impressive height of 177 feet (the equivalent of a 15-story building), the new sculpture rises in the middle of an extensive urban plain — making visible the strong Marian devotion of the region’s inhabitants, inscribing faith in the landscape itself."
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us....and pray that all nations may turn to you in prayer and obtain peace for a world grown cold with sin and hate instead of sacrifice and love.

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Catholic National Register on the Fatima Statue in Brazil

Video of the Event of Inauguration of the Fatima Statue in Brazil