Which countries are consecrating themselves these days?

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    I have read that Bishops of various countries in the last month or so are consecrating their people and land to the Immaculate Heart of Mary or the Sacred Heart of Jesus or both. Could you post links of these joyful consecrations in this thread so that we may celebrate with each one? Thank you.
     
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    Procession of the relic of the “Sword of Archangel Michael” at Monte Sant'Angelo in Italy—the shrine of the apparition of St Michael which occurred in 492AD. The last time it was exposed was during a plague in 1656. This happened on April 10, 2020
     
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    +Michel Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris, today imparting the Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament over the city of Paris, from the steps of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, overlooking the city, blessing Paris and the whole of France in this most difficult time. This happened April 9, 2020
     
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    Austrian Bishop Krautwaschl renewed Austria's consecration to the Mother of God on Easter Monday (April 13, 2020)
     
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    On April 5, 2020 Abp Pierbattista Pizzaballa blessed the Holy City with a relic of the True Cross, from Dominus Flevit on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem, Israel.
     
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    On March 29, 2020 Bishops of England and Wales rededicated England to our Heavenly Mother.
     
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    On March 25, 2020 Ireland was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary today at Knock Shrine.
     
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    The President of the Polish Bishops' Conference Archbishop Gadecki entrusted Poland to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25, 2020.
     
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    On March 25, 2020 an emotional António Cardinal Marto, Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, renewed the Consecration of Portugal and Spain to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, pleading that Almighty God might end this coronavirus covid-19 pandemic.
     
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    On March 25, 2020 the German diocese of Passau consecrated itself to Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the German diocese of Augsburg consecrated itself to Mary.
     
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    https://www.catholicworldreport.com...jesus-and-mary-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

    In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, the Portuguese bishops’ conference announced last week they would reconsecrate Portugal to Christ and Mary on the evening of March 25. Shortly after the announcement, the Spanish bishops’ conference requested that their country also be consecrated in the same liturgy.

    The Portuguese bishops subsequently invited the heads of other national bishops’ conferences to request that their nations be added as well.

    In addition to Spain and Portugal, the other 22 countries consecrated at the request of their respective episcopal conferences are: Albania, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Slovakia, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Mexico, Moldova, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, Romania, Tanzania, East Timor and Zimbabwe.
     
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    https://www.catholicworldreport.com...of-requests-bishops-to-entrust-italy-to-mary/
    After receiving more than 300 letters during the coronavirus pandemic, the Italian bishops will entrust the nation to Mary’s protection on Friday, May 1, at a shrine in northern Italy.

    In a video message April 20, the president of the Italian bishops’ conference said he received “more than 300 letters, full of love, and of devotion to the consolations of the Virgin Mary.”

    Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti said these letters asked “why do you not dedicate our nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary? All of the people who suffer because of this pandemic, all those who work in the hospitals and must take care of their neighbor, why not entrust the whole nation to Mary?”

    Bassetti noted that it is the task of pastors to guide their flocks, “but often it is the flock, the Christian people, who push their pastors, as occurred in this case.”

    Italy’s entrustment to Our Lady will take place in the evening May 1 at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fonte, a shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Caravaggio in the province of Bergamo, one of the areas in Italy most devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.
    They added that the prayer is being held at the shrine of Santa Maria del Fonte in Caravaggio, Italy, because it is surrounded by the “suffering and pain experienced in a land severely tested by the health emergency.”

    The Shrine of Our Lady of Caravaggio was built on the site of a 15th-century Marian apparition.

    The Blessed Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to a young peasant girl, Giannetta Varoli, in a hay field outside the town of Caravaggio on May 26, 1432.

    In her message, the Virgin urged penance for sin, including fasting on Fridays. The apparition is also called Our Lady of the Fountain, because a spring of water appeared under the stone where the Virgin stood, and on which she left an imprint of her feet.

    That same year, the first small shrine was built at the site. More than 100 years later, in 1575, St. Charles Borromeo, then the bishop of Milan, hired an architect to begin the long process of expanding the shrine to what it still looks like today.
     
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    I guess the United States has no need of this?
    I think US citizens better storm our bishops to do this ASAP!!
     
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    Our Lady of America requested this over 50 years ago. Sigh.
     
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    https://angelusnews.com/local/la-ca...ifornia-communities-with-hilltop-benediction/
    April 23, 2020
    Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell of Los Angeles climbed a high summit in the San Gabriel Valley April 23 to bless the most populous counties of Southern California and beyond during this pandemic.

    Asked by Terry Barber, founder and president of Virgin Most Powerful Radio, why he was on this high point, Bishop O'Connell replied: "Because I am asking the Lord for a restoration of life. ... We must extend the healing power of Jesus."

    Bishop O'Connell, who oversees the San Gabriel pastoral region of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, invoked the power of God "to bring us out from the darkness of the pandemic to the light of the Lord's glory."

    The evening began with the rosary and continued with canticles of praise and ended with the bishop's blessing of the four corners of Southern California as he held up the monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament.
     
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