AUGUST IS DEDICATED TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

The association of August with the Immaculate Heart is a fairly recent development, stemming from the World War II era. The pope at the time, Venerable Pope Pius XII held a deep devotion to Our Lady of Fatima who in 1917 told the shepherd children “[Jesus] wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.”

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