Standing before the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Pope Francis has canonised two shepherd children who saw Mary at Fatima, but more importantly, he said, they heeded the call to pray for sinners and trust in the Lord.
"We declare and define Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto as saints," the Pope said as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims broke out in applause before he finished speaking.
The relics of the young shepherd children, encased in two thin golden crosses, were placed in front of the famed statue of Our Lady of Fatima, the "lady dressed in white" as the siblings and their cousin described her.
