Our Lady of Fatima (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfatimɐ]) is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by those who believe that she appeared to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May, the Fatima holiday. The title of Our Lady of the Rosary is also used in reference to the same apparition; the children related that the apparition specifically identified herself as "the Lady of the Rosary." It is also common to see a combination of these titles, i.e., Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima).Between May and October of 1917, three shepherd children, Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, reported visions of a luminous lady, believed to be the Virgin Mary, in the Cova da Iria fields outside the hamlet of Aljustrel, near Fatima, Portugal. The Lady appeared to the children on the 13th day of each month at approximately noon, for six straight months. The only exception was August, when the children were kidnapped by the local administrator.
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Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc in French ,(c. 1412 – May 30, 1431) was a 15th century national heroine of France. She was tried and executed for heresy when she was only 19 years old. The judgment was broken by the Pope and she was declared innocent and a martyr 24 years later. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized as a saint in 1920.

Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła^ⓘ [ˈkaɾɔl ˈjuzεf vɔi̯ˈtɨwa]; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from 16 October 1978, until his death, almost 27 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s. He is one of only four people to have been named to the Time 100 for both the 20th century and for a year in the 21st. Canonized in 2014, he was made the patron of World Youth Day even before canonization, for 2008 in Sydney, Australia. He started those days for youth in 1986.
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• ... that the Most Rev. S. Arulappa (pictured), Archbishop of Hyderabad, was the youngest priest to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic Archbishop in India?
• ... that Father Nelson Baker, founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York, is buried in the basilica's transept in a grotto hewn from Vesuvian black lava?
• ... that Saint Vigilius of Trent, stoned to death for overturning a statue of Saturn, was the first martyr canonized by a pope?

Some of the earliest surviving English songs have been attributed to him. (Full article...)
Attributes: Hermit
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See also: Eugène de Mazenod, France; Arcangelo Tadini; Pietro Parenzo; Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, Mexico; Mateo Correa Magallanes, Mexico; Saints of the Cristero War

18 May 2025 – Papal inauguration of Pope Leo XIV

The papal inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV is held at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. (Sky News)

8 May 2025 – 2025 papal conclave

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States is elected to the papacy on the fourth ballot and takes the name Leo XIV. He is the first pope from North America and the second from the Americas, after Pope Francis. A dual citizen of the United States and Peru, he also becomes the second South American pope. (CNN) (The Guardian)

7 May 2025 – 2025 papal conclave

A total of 133 cardinal electors begin the process of electing a new pope following the death of Pope Francis. (The Guardian)

5 May 2025 – Holy See–Palestine relations, Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war

The Vatican announces that it will convert and donate a Popemobile into a mobile health clinic for wounded children in Gaza, Palestine, in accordance with one of Pope Francis' final wishes. (The Sydney Morning Herald)