Centenary Pilgrim Virgin Statue 

Immaculate Heart of Mary (CPVSIHM)

WAF England and Wales Centenary Pilgrim Virgin Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CPVSIHM), was blessed at the Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima, Portugal, in June 2018, by Bishop Guillermo V. Afable, the National Spiritual Director of WAF Philippines, in the presence of many priests and delegates gathered for WAF International Seminar. It’s purpose is to promote Communions of Reparation on First Saturdays and to foster the devotion to Mary’s Immaculate Heart.

The CPVSIHM was also a direct response to the invitation of the “Grace and Mercy International Seminar of the WAF” held at Domus Pacis, the WAF International Headquarters, in Fatima, to rediscover the marvels of Fatima, “the light that came out of Her heart who was Jesus himself,” that transformed the hearts of the little children-shepherds forever. 

WAF England and Wales hope that the CPVSIHM will continue to visit many religious houses, convents, parishes and cathedrals to promote the Five First Saturdays devotion, and along with the Relics of Saints Jacinta and Francisco, become an instrument of catechesis on the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, which, surrounded by thorns, urgently needs reparation.

10 December 2025 is/was the Centenary of the request of the Five First Saturdays of Reparation at Pontevedra, Spain. At Pontevedra, Our Lady promised to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months go to confession and receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep her company for a quarter of an hour while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to her.

The devotion to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart is strongly emphasised in the Fatima message. During the 13 June 1917 apparition, the Blessed Virgin said to Lucia, “Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. He wishes to establish the devotion to my Immaculate Heart throughout the world. I promise salvation to whoever embraces it; these souls will be dear to God, like flowers put by Me to adorn his throne.” She also promised Lucia that her Immaculate Heart would be her refuge and the way that would lead her to God.

The First Saturday Devotion of Reparation signifies the intimate union of the hearts of Jesus and Mary. In this devotion, Jesus himself desires reparation for the sins which pierce His Mother’s sorrowful heart, the maternal symbol of her merciful love and her desire for the salvation of all mankind in Him.

A new crown for the CPVSIHM has been made by the firm of Leitao and Irma, Jewellers, of Lisbon, Portugal, who also made the crown for the Southern Statue. This has now been brought back to the UK, and is being used for Fatima events.