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On Thursday morning, Benedict XVI arrived in silent prayer before the tombs of the young shepherds at Fatima, witnesses of the Marian apparitions between May 13 and October 13, 1917 . Inside the Basilica of the Shrine of Fatima, in fact, lie the sister and brother, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, who were beatified by Pope John Paul II ten years ago, and Lucia de Jesus, who later became Sister Maria Lucia of the Immaculate Heart, and whose cause for beatification was launched February 13, 2008, on the third anniversary of her death. The Virgin revealed to them the horizon of hope which never disappoints, and of a love that can comfort even those in danger of succumbing to the "quicksand of sickness". Benedict XVI had previously offered comfort to the many patients who attended the Mass celebrated on the esplanade of the Shrine, saying that "sources of divine power flow in the midst of human weakness." "Suffering, lived with Jesus," he said, is for the salvation of the brothers, so you can "overcome the feeling of the uselessness of suffering that consumes the person in the depths of himself and makes him feel as a burden to others" . 
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