‘It is the message of Fatima,’ Bishop John Shojiro Ito, who formally approved the 1973 Marian apparitions, told the Japanese nun, who died this month. L to R: Seitai Hoshikai in Akita, Japan, where ...

Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a Japanese nun whose purported visions of the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Akita included stark warnings for humanity and instructions to pray the Rosary and ...

Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa, a Japanese Catholic nun who claimed to have experienced Marian apparitions, was buried on Aug. 17, two days after her death. She was 93. Father Iino Kotaro of Akita ...

SÃO PAULO – Producers have been campaigning online to collect donations to shoot the first movie about the story of Brazil’s patroness and major popular devotion, Our Lady of Aparecida. The creators ...

It’s a space to strengthen your Catholic faith in the presence of praying hospitable sisters and classical Japanese design The chapel of Seitai Hoshikai, called Our Lady of Akita, was constructed in ...

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