┬аMonsignor Joseph A. Cirrincione is the author of several small spiritual booklets on Fatima, including┬аThe Rosary and the Crisis of Faith,┬аThe Forgotten Secret of Fatima,┬аSt. Joseph, Fatima and Fatherhood, and┬аFatima's Message for Our Times. For many years, he earnestly prayed for the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Plagued with serious health problems and even sent to the hospital a few times, Monsignor Cirrincione faithfully commended himself to the Fatima children in the early 1990s, when he suffered from heart trouble. He was later healed, and he made a pilgrimage to Fatima as an act of thanksgiving, where he learned the children had been declared venerable.