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The Pontevedra apparitions are the Marian apparitions received by Sister Lúcia, the visionary of Fátima, when she was living in a Dorothean convent in Spain.
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First apparition
Eight years after the Fátima events, one of the seers, now called Sister Lúcia was living in a Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, Spain. On December 10, 1925, she experienced another apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On this occasion, in Sister Lucia's own words, the Virgin returned as She had promised at Fatima to relate the specific requirements for the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.
Here is how Sister Lúcia describes the appearance: "The Most Holy Virgin appeared to me, and by her side, elevated on a luminous cloud, was the Child Jesus. The Most Holy Virgin rested her hand on my shoulder and as she did so, she showed me a heart encircled by thorns, which she was holding in her other hand."
During this alleged apparition, the Child Jesus asked Sister Lúcia to have compassion on His Mother, referring to her as the heavenly mother of Sister Lúcia.
At this point, the Virgin Mary is said to have set the parameters of the Five First Saturdays devotion. If one fulfilled these conditions on the First Saturday of five consecutive months, the Virgin Mary promised special graces at the hour of death.
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The First Saturdays Devotion, or Reparation Communion to the Immaculate Heart of Blessed Virgin Mary is a Christian practice which, according to the visionaries, has been requested by the Virgin Mary in several visitations, notably Our Lady of Fátima and the subsequent Pontevedra_apparitions. The Devotion, and the apparitions, have been officially embraced by the Roman Catholic Church.
The devotion fits on the Catholic tradition to venerate the Virgin Mary particularly on Saturdays, which originated in the scriptural account that, as the Mother of Jesus Christ, her heart was to be pierced with a sword, as prophesied during the presentation of Jesus in the temple; Such sword was the bitter sorrow during the Crucifixion of Jesus (which Christians understand as the union of the Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart of Jesus (see Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Apparitions); Such sorrow is particularly bitterly endured on Holy Saturday after Jesus was placed on the Sepulcher (before the Resurrection on Easter). Devotees of Fátima believe that the First Saturdays help to console the sorrows of God, Jesus, and the Virgin Mary for the sins against her Immaculate Heart.
