Behind the Name: Comments for the name Jacinta

Comments for JACINTA:

Blessed Jacinta - One of the three children who saw the Blessed Virgin at Fatima.

-- Anonymous User 10/30/2006

Pronounced zhuh-SEEN-ta in Portuguese.

-- mellon.collie 4/20/2008

Commonly pronounced jə-SIN-tə in English-speaking countries. It has been frequently in the Top 100 names for girls (with this pronunciation) in Australia over the past 30 years.

-- Chrisell 10/25/2008

Jacinta Marto was one of the children who reported witnessing three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and several apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1917, in Fátima, Portugal (along with her brother Francisco Marto and cousin Lúcia Santos).

On May 13, 2000, Jacinta and Francisco were beatified and declared "blessed" in a decree from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Jacinta is the youngest non-martyred child ever to be beatified.

-- angelsariel 2/26/2009

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