The Feast of Corpus Christi and the Angel of Portugal | The Fatima Center

The Fatima Center wishes you a blessed and grace-filled feast of Corpus Christi! “For My flesh is meat indeed: and My blood is drink indeed. He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, abideth in Me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth Me, the same also shall live by Me. This is the bread that came down from Heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live forever.” (John 6:56-59) At Fatima, the Angel of Portugal taught us about the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, as well as proper reverence for and reception of the Sacred Host. Let us first review the circumstances of the relevant apparition of the Angel. The Third Apparition of the Angel of Portugal [1] One day in the autumn of 1916, the three young shepherds of Fatima – Lucia dos Santos (age 9) and her cousins, Francisco (age 8) and Jacinta Marto (age 6) – brought their sheep to graze on a grassy …