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  1. 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). The homonymous civil parish encompasses several villages and localities of which the city of Fátima is the largest.. The civil parish has been permanently associated with Our Lady of ...

  2. Jul 8, 2024 · The town of Fátima is located in the central part of Portugal, in the third largest district in the country, the District of Santarém. It is about 125 km (78 miles) to the north of the capital, Lisbon, and 170 km (106 miles) to the south of Porto.

  3. 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. Sauropods were some of the largest creatures to have walked the planet, with long bodies and tails, and small heads. ...

  4. Although Fátima is a small city that existed long before it became a spiritual destination, when most people think of Fátima they think of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima.The sanctuary attracts somewhere between 5 and 8 million visitors every year, most of whom are deeply religious but also many who are spiritual or just curious to see this world-renowned religious destination.

  5. 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

  6. Our Lady of Fátima, in Roman Catholicism, the Virgin Mary in her six appearances before three peasant children near the village of Fátima, Portugal, in 1917.Since that revelation, millions of the faithful have made pilgrimages to the site where the woman, commonly called Our Lady of Fátima, appeared. The Roman Catholic Church officially recognized the Fátima events as worthy of belief in 1930.

  7. 03 august, 2023 On the Hill of Encounter, Pope Francis Urges Young People to Be Courageous. The Holy Father reaffirms that in the Church there is a place for everyone, without exception.

  8. Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, pronounced [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲɔɾɐ ðɨ ˈfatimɐ]; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins ...

  9. 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.It consists of a group of Catholic religious buildings and structures with the Basilica of Our Lady ...

  10. The Shrine of Fatima is a place of pilgrimage, which celebrates the memory of its founding event, the apparitions of Our Lady to the three little Shepherds. The pilgrim’s pastoral hospitality is a key element to its mission. The Shrine of Fatima keeps the memory of the event and the message of Fatima. It has the mission of studying and ...

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