Archbishop Leo Cushley has consecrated the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Fatima, Portugal, on the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s appearance there to three local shepherd children.
The consecration came at the end of a Mass in the Chapel of Apparitions, the location of the Marian apparitions in 1917.
“In this centenary year it seemed appropriate to consecrate the whole diocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and where better place to do it but in the shade of where the tree used to stand where Our Lady appeared to the little shepherds – it was a beautiful and a very moving thing for me to be able to do,” said Archbishop Cushley, who is currently leading an Archdiocesan pilgrimage to Fatima.
