Fátima Private Tour with Guide – Half Day

Fátima

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary, commonly known as Sanctuary of Fátima, is located 120 kilometers north of Lisbon and is considered one of the largest Marian Shrines in the Catholic World.

The last apparition happened on October 13th at Cova da Iria, where an estimated croud of about 50 to 70 thousand people, witnessed a phenomenon that became famous as the “miracle of the Sun”. The place where on May 13, 1917, Our Lady appeared to three children of humble families who left the animals to graze and told them that she would return every month at the same time for the following six months and asked them to pray the Rosary every day. In the Shrine there´s a small part of the Berlin Wall, with the iron curtain fall, there were several blocks like this that appeared in several cities of the world, at the nascent entrance of the sanctuary there is one of these pieces, offered by a Portuguese emigrant living in Germany.

Fátima is a holy shrine where millions of pilgrims and tourists visit every year. On the May 13th of 1917, three children – Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto, and Lucia de Jesus – witnessed Lady Mary appearing to them and telling them to build a chapel in honor of Mary of the White Rosary. Lady Mary said that She would return six more times on that day, on the 13th of May, the 13th of June, the 13th of July, the 13th of August, the 13th of September, and the 13th of October. So, every day from then on, people should pray the Rosary.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima is a place where people come to pay their respects to Mary, the mother of Jesus. There are two existing Basilicas here: Our Lady of the Rosary and Holy Trinity, and the Chapel of the Apparitions is especially worth seeing. There are graves of the three shepherd children ( Francisco and Jacinta) and Sister Lucia, who died in 2016. After paying tribute to Lady Mary, we'll visit the places where the children were born in Valinhos.