Tipperary's Rosary Rally to pray for world peace takes place in Clonmel this weekend

One of over 500 Ireland Needs Fatima Rosary Rallies across Ireland next Saturday, May 11 will take place at Kickham Barracks Plaza in Clonmel.

The public are invited to participate in the multi-cultural and multi-lingual recital of the Rosary prayers at the Plaza at 4pm that day to mark the 107th anniversary of the first Marian apparition at Fatima in Portugal on May 13, 1917.

The Rosary Rally is in honour of Our Lady of Fatima and will be recited for world peace.

Young people from the Holy Family Mission at Glencomeragh near Kilsheelan will be among those leading decades of the Rosary at the prayer event.

The series of public prayer rallies are being coordinated and sponsored by the Ireland Needs Fatima campaign run by the Irish Society for Christian Civilisation.

This will be the second year in a row a Rosary Rally will be staged at Kickham Barrack’s Plaza for the anniversary of the first Marian apparition at Fatima.

More than 200 people of all ages and a wide range of nationalities took part in last year’s Clonmel rally.

Jimmy Ryan, who is part of a committee of lay Catholics organising the Clonmel Rosary Rally, recalled that decades of the Rosary were recited in seven different languages at last year’s rally including Gaeilge, English, Spanish, Polish, Hindi, Malayalam and Latin.

“We will have at least ten (languages), maybe even more this year,” he told The Nationalist.

“Many of those who participated last year described their experiences as being very similar to that which pilgrims have at many major Marian shrines around the world.”

He said this Saturday’s Rosary Rally is a great way to reach out to non-practising Catholics and non-Catholics.

“If they see you praying in a public place, they may be moved to reflect,” he said.

Mr Ryan issued a call out to anyone interested and available to help at the Rosary Rally to call or text him at (086) 259 7276 or email jimmyryanwio@gmail.com