The Missionary Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, Holliston
101 Summer Street | Holliston, MA 01746 holliston@xaverianmissionaries.org | Office 508.429.2144
Fatima Shrine Gift Shop is open Thursday through Sunday.
11 AM – 6 PM. 508.429.8172
Join our Pilgrimage to Lourdes and Fatima September 2026
- Fr. Carl Chudy – Co-Director of the Shrine, Mission Media Office, Interfaith Outreach cchudy@xaverianmissionaries.org
- Br. Kornel Glossanto – Co-Director of the Shrine, Facilities Manager kglossanto@xaverianmissionaries.org
- Fr. Rocco Puopolo – Shrine Team, spiritual direction, Vocation Director, Lectio Divina, and Pax Christi – frrocco@xaverianmissionaries.org
- Fr. Joeven Matugas – Shrine Team, Laudato Si Project, jmatugas@xaverianmissionaries.org
- Fr. Francis Signorelli, Fr. Frank Grappoli, and Fr. Adolph Menendez – Senior Missionaries
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Join our Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at Applebee’s in Milford, Saturday, March 28, 8 am to 10 am.
Come for a delicious full breakfast with eggs, pancakes, sausage, bacon and potatoes, along with fluffy pancakes! All for Fatima Shrine!
We look forward to our Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser on Saturday, March 28, 8 to 10 am. Tickets are 12 dollars each and can be gotten at the office. We’ll be selling them after masses in March. We will also have raffle baskets available for raffle. THE EASTER BUNNY WILL BE THERE!
All raffle basket items and baskets for the Bunny Breakfast need to be delivered to the shrine by Thursday 3/12. They will be on display after mass on 3/15 for anyone who wants to buy tickets who won’t be at the breakfast. Raffle tickets for the baskets are $5 for 7 tickets and $10 for 15. For information about the raffle baskets contact Donnalee Shain at dshainptyoga@gmail.com.
You can get tickets at the office, after mass on Sundays or you may purchase online here.
Take a Sneak Peek at the New Website of Fatima Shrine
Take a first look at the new website of Fatima Shrine that Brother Kornel is working on. You can find it at FatimaShrine.org. It’s not quite finished but you’ll get the idea. If you have any suggestions to improve it, please let us know at kglossanto@xaverianmissionaries.org
Lent 2026
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Fatima Shrine Featured on Catholic TV of Boston
Fatima Shrine in the Local News
A Catholic shrine in Massachusetts, west of Boston, has a rosary so large it’s made of boulders and chains.
The heart-shaped rosary at Holliston’s Our Lady of Fatima Shrine is 950 feet long. According to the World Record Academy, it’s the largest sculpture of rosary beads on Earth.
“They decided to think big and to create a rosary not necessarily with a record of size in mind but a place that people could walk through,” said Father Carl Chudy, the shrine’s co-director. “When we hold a rosary, we go through it with our hands. This is a chance for people to be on a kind of pilgrimage.”
The rosary was built with large rocks taken from the construction of Interstate 495.
“It was the early 70s, they were just digging up for the project to build I-495,” Father Chudy said. “They had gotten permission to come and take these large boulders from there, one by one, in a pickup truck. Connecting the boulders, they implemented an anchor and chain that came from a battleship, actually, the John F. Kennedy.”
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO FOOTAGE HERE
| Our beautiful shrine lends itself to the beauty and wonder of God that is reflected in all creation. We initiated the Laudato Si Project of the Fatima Shrine. The keystone encyclical by Pope Francis in 2015, Care for Our Common Home, At our shrine, we speak often of our Fatima Bee Project and efforts to increase pollinators in our community, the restoration of Meadowlands in certain areas of the shrine, and efforts to increase monarch butter/fly populations at the shrine. We want to connect our efforts at Fatima Shrine with the prominent Catholic Movement of the LS Movement, which is active worldwide. We will encourage your participation and prayer on different fronts. Take a look at the Laudato Si Movement website. |
- Fatima Bee Project – We have been promoting pollinators in our community through the Fatima Bee Project. This year, we are adding five new hives, a symbolic number of wholeness and unity in Jubilee. The new hives will be added in late April and early May 2025.
- Meadowland Restoration—We are converting a significant part of the shrine to meadowland restoration. This means stopping mowing these sections and allowing them to naturally regrow with native grasses and plants, supporting local species and reminding us of the fragility of creation, which affects so many worldwide, particularly the poorest. It’s a work in progress, and we hope to add some vegetation and wildflowers this year.
- Propagating the Monarch Butterfly Population – Over the last several years, we have enlisted some members of our shrine community to collect butterfly eggs on the shrine attached to Milkweed, raise the butterflies at home, and release them on the shrine afterward. It is an excellent teaching tool on the lifecycle of nature, and the caterpillar is a powerful symbol of resurrection.
Glimpses of the Shrine
Introducing Pax Christi at Fatima Shrine
Butterfly Garden in Remembrance of Those Who Died of Addiction
Our Lady of Fatima Shrine is embarking on a new prayer/memorial area. Some people who have lost loved ones to the current opioid crisis approached the shrine to create a Butterfly Garden of Remembrance. There will be the opportunity to honor your loved one who died with a memorial brick that would have the loved one’s name and be permanently placed in the garden. Knowing that a loved one left this world due to addiction is not easy. The garden will give family and friends a place to reflect and pray for any faith tradition. The donation per brick will be $100.Donations are partially tax-deductible. Proceeds cover the cost of making this garden; any balance is donated to Fatima Shrine.
Pray for the Names of Lives Lost to Substance Abuse Inscribed in our Butterfly Garden
Click the links for the Facebook Reel
Part I: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16fGPhcDqk
Part II: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1MxbFs7pdP
Part III: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16Um78SZ29
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