IPVS

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The world-famous International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima was sculpted in 1947 by Jose Thedim, based on the description of Sr. Lucia, one of the three young seers who saw Our Lady each month from May to October 1917 in Fatima, Portugal. On May 13, 1947, in the presence of some 150,000 pilgrims, the statue was blessed by the Bishop of Leiria at Fatima to be the pilgrim, the traveler. Sent out to bring the Message of Fatima to the world, it began its journeys.

How can I host the Satellite IPVS?

To find out how you can host the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue, please contact:

Rose Marie Malburg
President, International Pilgrim Virgin Statue Foundation

If you have additional questions, please read the frequently asked questions page, and do not hesitate to contact the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue Foundation. God bless you!

Miracles, Graces and Favors Received

Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven

The Peace Plan from Heaven is a call for prayer and penance offered in reparation for sin. Our Lady said at Fatima, "War is a punishment for sin." She asks for Communions of Reparation on the First Saturday of the month and that we daily offer up each act as a sacrifice for sin, pray the Rosary, be consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart, and wear the Brown Scapular as a sign of this consecration.

Pope Pius XII Blesses the second International Pilgrim Virgin Statue

On October 24th, 1952, the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, graciously granted an audience to three priests of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society: Rev. D. Stringer, Very Rev. A. Chafe, Vicar General, and Rt. Rev. Wm. C. McGrath, custodian and Director of the Pilgrim Virgin Tour. After blessing the Pilgrim Virgin Statue, His Holiness imparted a special blessing to the work of the Society and to the Fatima Pilgrimage.

Why the World Needs the Rosary

The great Marian prayer for peace is so relevant in the current culture.

Before Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was our Pope, at the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia on Aug. 13, 1976, he declared: "We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through... We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel."That is still true today.

Russian archbishop crowns the Pilgrim Virgin Statue in Fatima, Portugal

Our Lady’s promise for his country

Among the more than half a million people who gathered at Fatima in October of 2007 for the 90th Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun, was Archbishop Tadeusz Kondruchewicz, the first Catholic bishop consecrated in Russia in the post Communist era. He had been consecrated Archbishop of Moscow in 1991.

In Loving Memory of John Haffert

Founder of the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue; Foundation and Co-Founder of the Blue Army

On October 31, 2001, a truly great man of world-wide renown, John Mathias Haffert, passed peacefully from this life, praying his Rosary, in the presence of the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. It was appropriate that he die during October, the month of the Holy Rosary. His life was dedicated to promoting the Message of Our Lady of Fatima and the related Brown Scapular devotion. He was the Founder of the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue Foundation and the Co-Founder of the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima.