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The statue was presented as a gift from the Catholic people of the United States to the Sanctuary of Fátima in 1958. [4] Many of the events of the Marian apparitions at Fátima are depicted in the stained glass windows in the basilica, while fifteen altars within the church are dedicated to the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.
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). [1] The homonymous civil parish encompasses several villages and localities of which the city of Fátima is the largest.
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary (Portuguese: Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Rosário) is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in the Sanctuary of Fátima (Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima) in Cova da Iria, in the civil parish of Fátima, in the municipality of Ourém in Portugal.
The National Pilgrim Image of Our Lady of Fátima-Philippines, also known as the EDSA Image, is a gift to the Philippines from the Sanctuary of Fátima, enshrined at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Valenzuela in Metro Manila. It was blessed by Pope Paul VI in 1967 on the 50th anniversary of the Apparitions.
Mass at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima. The Chapel of the Apparitions [1] (Portuguese: Capelinha das Aparições) is a small chapel located in Cova da Iria that was first constructed in 1919, and again in the early 1920s, to mark the exact location where three little shepherd children reported having received the famous apparitions of the ...
On September 4, 1982, Izon approved the creation of the World Apostolate of Fatima chapter in the parish, which received astonishing support from the parishioners as well as the lay leaders. Since the national shrine was slowly becoming known in the country, then Tourism Minister Jose D. Aspiras declared it as a tourist site on December 3, 1982.
The Sanctuary of Fátima is located in the Central Region of Portugal. The Centro is a region of diversified landscapes. The interior is mountainous with some plateaus, dominated by the Serra da Estrela mountain. The region is plentiful of pine and chestnut trees forests. The green, rugged landscape of this region is crisscrossed by rivers.
The basilica is situated on the axis of two great roads in Fátima: north-south, a courtyard and extension to the south with the Pastoral Centre until Avenida João XXIII and east-west, Avenida D. José A.C.Silva. [7] The church is located in the southeast corner of the sanctuary of Fátima. [3]