Fátima Sanctuary-Background
Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Fátima, 2496-908
Phone: +351 249 539 600 - Fax: +351 249 539 605
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Often likened to Lourdes in France, the Fátima Sanctuary is a place of pilgrimage on a huge scale. On the 13th May 1917, the Virgin appeared to three shepherd children: ten-year-old Lucia Santos and her cousins Jucinta and Francisco. These apparitions occurred monthly, over a period of six months and, on the final occasion, Lucia was given the ‘Fátima Secret’, visions of hell, a war worse than World War I and a papal assassination. This was officially recognised in 1930 and Jacinta and Francisco were beatified in 2000. Lucia, a nun, was still alive at this time.
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