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Fátima (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ) is a city in the municipality of Ourém and district of Santarém in the Oeste e Vale do Tejo Region of Portugal, with 71.29 km 2 of area and 13,212 inhabitants (2021).
Dec 14, 2021 · Home to the Sanctuary of Fátima, the city is the site of a world-renowned Catholic miracle. The story of the Our Lady of Fátima miracle begins on May 13, 1917. Three peasant children, Francisco, Jacinta, and Lucia were tending to their family’s sheep.
Official webpage of the Shrine of Fatima.
Jan 26, 2020 · Fátima is a whisker away from what might be Portugal’s top paleontological site. On a former quarry in the Serra de Aire is the oldest and longest set of sauropod footprints found anywhere on earth.
Jul 8, 2024 · Once a tiny village hidden between Lisbon and Porto, Fátima is now the most significant Catholic pilgrimage centre in Portugal that is gathering thousands of visitors from all over the world every year. Here is everything you need to know about this sacred place if you plan to visit.
Dec 8, 2021 · Fátima. A hot stop of religious tourism, Fátima, a city in Santarém receives around 8 million pilgrims a year. This romantic city is located one hour drive from Lisbon and is surrounded by mountainous parks and villages with stoned houses.
Fátima, village and sanctuary, central Portugal. It is located on the tableland of Cova da Iria, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Leiria. Fátima was named for a 12th-century Moorish princess, and since 1917 it has been one of the greatest Marian shrines in the world, visited by thousands of pilgrims.
Fátima, a journey to the altar of the world. The Shrine at Fátima is one of the most important landmarks in the Marian worship, drawing pilgrims from all over the world. The location of the Shrine of Fátima, at Cova da Iria, had until 1917 been an unknown place in the municipality of Ourém, in the parish of Fátima.
May 17, 2024 · Our Lady of Fatima, in Roman Catholicism, the Virgin Mary in her six appearances before three peasant children near the village of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Fatima became the location of one of the greatest Marian shrines in the world, visited by thousands of pilgrims each year.
The Sanctuary of Fátima (Portuguese: Santuário de Fátima), officially titled Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima (Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima), is a Marian shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima located in Fátima, in the municipality of Ourém, in Portugal.
