On
Saturday, 12 October, at 5 p.m. in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis
will preside over a prayer on the occasion of the Marian Day convoked in
the context of the Year of Faith and will receive the original statute
of the Virgin of Fatima, which normally resides in the Portuguese
sanctuary of the same name. The bullet which struck Blessed John Paul II in the assassination attempt of13 May 1981, is set into the crown of the statue.
On Sunday, 13 October, at 10.30 a.m., again in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father will celebrate Holy Mass on the Marian Day.