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Spiritual Director- Fr. Jimmy O'Reilly

Fatima Pilgrimage from 6th - 13th June. Advance booking and payment of fare required.

The small Portuguese town of Fatima is a renowned place of pilgrimage, home to one of the world’s most famous Shrines dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Located north of Lisbon, in central Portugal, the shrine is site of the events of 1917 in which three shepherd children, Lúcia Santos and her cousins, Jacinta Marto and Francisco Marto, witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary on 13 May 1917 and on the 13th day of the five following months. Our Lady of the Rosary – as the apparition identified herself to the three children – told the children that she had been sent by God with a message for every man, woman and child living and promised that Heaven would grant peace to the entire world if her request for prayer, reparation and consecration were heard and obeyed.

The sanctuary built to commemorate these events is dominated by the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, a magnificent church that overlooks a large open plaza where millions of pilgrims gather throughout the year, especially for the main festivals on 13th May and 13th October, dates of the first and last sightings.


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