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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima (better known as the Sanctuary of Fatima), located in Cova da Iria, Fátima, Portugal, is one of the most important Marian shrines in the world.
In 1917, the year of the Soviet revolution, Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto and Lúcia dos Santos, known as the three little shepherds, said they had witnessed six apparitions of Our Lady on May 13, .
In the essential part of the message, the apparition would have asked that the rosary be prayed every day, conversion, and penance.
In one of these apparitions, he asked to build a chapel in that place, which is currently the central part of the Sanctuary where an image of Our Lady of Fatima is displayed.
Over the years, the Sanctuary has been expanded, with two basilicas already existing, thus increasing the capacity of welcoming pilgrims in a covered area.
The Sanctuary of Fátima consists mainly of the Chapel of the Apparitions, the Rosary Hall / terrace, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary and colonnades, retreat house of Nossa Senhora do Carmo and Rectory, retreat house of Our Lady of Sorrows and hostel For the sick, Pius XII and Paul VI Pastoral Center, as well as the vast Basilica of the Holy Trinity, inaugurated on 13th October 2007. The Lausperene Chapel ('Laus Perene' stands for Permanent Praise) (where it is permanently exposed The Most Holy Body of Christ in the Consecrated Host) and the Chapel of Reconciliation, dedicated to the celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession).
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PORTUGAL: FATIMA SECRET (2)
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The Vatican has unveiled the mystery of the so-called third secret - a prophecy told in Portugal more than 80 years ago by what many believe was a vision of the Virgin Mary.
The secret was made public on Saturday during Pope John Paul's visit to Fatima where, in 1917, it's said the mother of Christ appeared before three shepherd children.
She issued them with three prophecies - the third foretelling the 1981 assassination attempt on the pontiff.
A vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917 has since transformed Fatima into one of the best-known shrines in the Roman Catholic world.
Thousands flock here to pray each year.
It was here that three shepherd children, Jacinta Marto, her brother Francisco and their cousin, are said to have seen the Mother of Christ above an olive tree and were told three secrets.
The third was never officially revealed until now, during Pope John Paul II's visit to the shrine.
Some 600-thousand worshippers listened as the Vatican secretary of state described the secret and how it had spoken of a bishop clothed in white who falls to the ground, apparently dead, under a burst of gunfire.
Pope John Paul was shot by a Turkish gunman in St. Peter's square on May 13, 1981 -- the anniversary of the first reported vision of the Virgin of Fatima.
SOUNDBITE: (over pictures of the Pope) (Portuguese)
After the assassination attempt on May 13, 1981, it appeared evident to his Holiness that it was a motherly hand which guided the bullet past enabling the dying Pope to halt at the threshold of death.
SUPERCAPTION: Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state
The pope's visit to Fatima comes just days before his eightieth birthday.
It's also his third visit to the Portuguese town since the attempt on his life.
On Saturday, he beatified the two shepherd children who died shortly after the vision, due to complications from influenza.
The children's first two so-called secrets have long been widely known - a vision of hell later interpreted as World War Two, and the rise and fall of Soviet Communism.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Our lady said to Sister Lucia (cousin of the two children) and the two children, who nowadays have been beatified, that there would be systematic and very cruel and ruthless persecution against Christians, Catholics, many hundreds and many thousands being killed, persecuted and tortured. And in this context, there was that figure, of a man, of a bishop, wearing white robes, him himself being a victim of violence, being shot, but not being killed. That was the main point that was written on paper many years ago. Naturally at the time it was a prophesy. Nowadays we realised that that prophesy nowadays is history.
SUPER CAPTION: Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican spokesman
Some, but not all of those worshipping in Fatima with the Pope this weekend were ready to believe the revelations surrounding the so-called third secret.
SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese/English)
I don't believe it.
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I believe some... I think I believe everything.
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Of course. That's why we have faith. It's called faith. You believe it, although you don't and I do, I believe that she told it because she is the mother of Jesus.
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP
The Pope made no direct mention of the so-called secrets during Saturday's worship, but he did speak of the horrors of the 20th century and the two world wars which the children are believed to have prophesied.
And as he spoke there was no doubt he believed that divine intervention in 1981 saved his life.
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Young Catholics eager to learn who the next pope will be
1. Various of people singing during Catholic mass at Church of Resurrection, AUDIO: music
2. Pan from congregation sitting in pews to Catholic priest at altar
3. Mid of young couple praying
4. Mid of young man at pulpit reading from Bible
5. Wide of young Catholics at mass
6. Close of Felipe Tavares, 22-year-old computer science student, helping to plan World Youth Day
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Felipe Tavares, 22-year-old computer science student, helping to plan World Youth Day:
That (the next pope) can help us, help the Church to prevail in this time of change. Many changes are taking place, so we're in expectation of the new pope, that we may meet this new pope, and here (Brazil) will probably be one of the first place that he will visit.
8. Close of Tavares and his girlfriend, Tamires Pisente, holding hands during mass
9. Wide of Tavares and Pisente
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Tamires Pisente, 21-year-old psychology student helping to plan World Youth Day:
The hope always remains. It would be interesting, I think, to have a Brazilian pope, to see how it would be. I think that we, at least I, am very excited for there to be one.
11. Wide of congregation
STORYLINE:
As Cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new pontiff following Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation last week, many young Catholics in Brazil are eagerly waiting to find out who his successor will be.
As host of the World Youth Day, in July, Rio de Janeiro is expected to welcome the next pope on his first international trip.
The event is expected to bring about 4 (m) million pilgrims to the city.
Thousands of young Brazilians are preparing for the gathering - including 22-year-old Felipe Tavares and his girlfriend, Tamires Pisente, who participate in weekly meetings to help plan the event.
Tavares and Pisente reflected on the Church's future while attending mass on Sunday at the city's Church of Resurrection.
Tavares said he hoped the next pope would help the Church to prevail in this time of change.
One of Brazil's own, Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, the 63-year-old archbishop of Sao Paulo, is considered a contender.
Scherer leads the third largest archdiocese in the world.
When asked whether Pisente wished for the next pope to share her nationality, the 21-year-old could not help but smile.
The hope always remains, she said. It would be interesting, I think, to have a Brazilian pope, to see how it would be.
Brazil has more Catholics than any other country in the world, with about 65 percent of its 192 (m) million people identifying themselves that way in the 2010 census.
However, that is down from 74 percent in 2000 and is the lowest since records began tracking religion 140 years ago.
Brazil was the first nation outside Europe that Pope Benedict XVI visited, during a five-day tour in 2007 largely aimed at stopping the loss of Catholic followers in Latin America.
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What really happened in Fatima in 1917?
May 13th marks the 102nd anniversary of the first of 6 apparitions of The Virgin Mary, in Fatima, Portugal.
The apparition is said to have visited 3 young shepherd children as they worked in a field, telling them several prophesies. 2 of these secrets were later revealed to have come true, the 3rd is still very much a mystery.
The apparition would continue to visit the children every month until October 13th, when she is said to have performed a solar miracle to over 100,000 people who had flocked to see.
Rob Davies visited Fatima to find out more about the story. Why did the Vatican hide the prophesies for so long? Does the 3rd prophecy really predict the end of the world, as many people fear it might? Did 100,000 people really witness a miracle? This place really is the center of one of the 20th Century's greatest mysteries.
Wife of captured fugitive says he should not be extradited to US
(28 Oct 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of captured American fugitive George Wright and his wife, Maria do Rosario Valente, talking to the reporter
2. Mid Wright kissing his wife
3. Panning Wright walking and hugging his wife
4. Close Wright and his wife
5. Mid Wright and Maria do Rosario talking with the journalist
6. Close Wright drinking coffee
7. Various Wright and Maria do Rosario speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria do Rosario Valente, Wright's wife
He did tell me about being in jail. I have to admit that at first I thought he was just pulling my leg but... about escaping, but not about the rest. I think he may have tried a couple of times throughout the years but for some reason it did not come through.
9. Tilt down Maria do Rosario during the interview
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria do Rosario Valente, Wright's wife
He regrets the choices he has made. If he could, he probably would have made different choices.
11. Tilt up from Maria do Rosario hands to her face
12. Close Maria do Rosario
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria do Rosario Valente, Wright's wife
I've been with him for 32 years and he's not... He has never been the person that would do that kind of thing, so if he did that before I met him and he would not think of doing that now obviously he must be a changed man, right?
14. Mid Maria do Rosario speaking
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria do Rosario Valente, Wright's wife
Well, we are having tests done but he has glaucoma, he has very very high blood pressure that now with the stress has sky rocketed and he has been complaining of chest pain so we're having a bunch of tests done to see what's his current health condition.
16. Various Maria do Rosario showing some works (decorative paints) made by George Wright
17. Various Maria do Rosario looking a picture of Wright and his son
18. Various front of Wright's house
STORYLINE
The wife of captured American fugitive George Wright said on Friday her husband has various health problems and should not be extradited to the United States.
Maria do Rosario Valente said in a video interview with AP at their home that Wright suffers from glaucoma, very, very high blood pressure caused by recent stress, and has complained of chest pains.
We're having a bunch of tests done to see what's his current health condition, Valente said.
Wright's lawyer, Manuel Luis Ferreira, said he intends to include his client's poor health in his legal arguments against extradition to the United States.
The US wants Wright returned to serve the remainder of his 15- to 30-year sentence for a 1962 murder in New Jersey.
US Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney, contacted via email, declined to comment on the case, which could last months.
Wright, 68, was on the run for 41 years until his arrest in Portugal a month ago.
He was convicted of the murder of Walter Patterson, a service station worker in Wall Township.
He broke out of the Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, New Jersey, in 1970 after serving more than seven years.
Patterson's daughter, Ann Patterson, now 63, said she wants Wright extradited to serve the rest of his sentence.
She said that recent weeks have caused her family sleepless nights.
The FBI says Wright also was part of a Black Liberation Army group that hijacked a US plane from Detroit Metropolitan Airport to Algeria in 1972. After that, Wright
went on the lam.
Valente said her husband regrets his criminal past and has become a more peaceful man since his days in the Black Liberation Army.
She showed the AP photographs of Wright's paintings and art work at local buildings - a skill which has allowed him to earn money in Portugal among other odd jobs.
Wright cannot stray beyond the front door into the garden.
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WRAP Fatima preps, pilgrims reax, Pope meets children
(12 May 2010)
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1. Pope Benedict XVI getting out of car at Belem culture centre to greet a group of primary school children
2. Various of pope greeting children, who are waving flags and cheering
3. Cutaway of child
4. Pope with children, then walking away back towards car
5. Cutaway of group of children
6. Pope's car driving away
Fatima
7. Wide of Fatima Sanctuary and Basilica
8. Various of pilgrims walking on their knees
9. Wide of large podium where pope will give mass
10. Wide of large crucifix
11. Various of pilgrims lighting candles
12. SOUNDBITE: (German) Maria Jose, Portuguese pilgrim living in Germany:
I saw the Pope give mass yesterday and it was full of young people. If there was really a problem of child abuse you wouldn't have so many young people there.
13. Wide of pilgrims waiting for pope
14. Close of girl sitting next to statue of the Virgin Mary
15. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Benito (no last name given), vox pop:
There have been some massive attacks on the Church, particularly on the Catholic Church. Perhaps things that happen in society, things we could do, you or me aren't given so much attention. On the other hand these same things are given extra attention because it is the Church. The media has given these matters far too much attention.
16. Wide of pilgrims waiting for pope
STORYLINE:
Pope Benedict XVI made a unscheduled stop to greet a group of primary school children in Lisbon on Wednesday, on the second day of a four-day trip to Portugal.
Following a meeting with the country's cultural elite in the Lisbon suburb of Belem, which means Bethlehem in Portuguese, the pope stopped his car to greet the children, who were waving flags and cheering.
Later on Wednesday, Benedict is due to arrive in Fatima, the heart of the trip, to pray at the famous shrine beloved by Pope John Paul II.
Pilgrims were gathering in the town early on Wednesday to await the pope's arrival.
The Portuguese town is the site where three Portuguese shepherd children reported having visions of the Virgin Mary in 1917.
The shrine draws (m) millions of pilgrims a year and was a favourite of John Paul, who made his third and final visit in 2000 when he beatified two of the three shepherds.
During that visit, the Vatican revealed the so-called third secret of Fatima, the third part of the message the Virgin allegedly told the children on May 13, 1917: a description of the May 13, 1981, assassination attempt on John Paul.
Struck by the coincidence of the dates, John Paul believed the Virgin intervened to spare his life after a Turkish gunman fired on him in St. Peter's Square.
In gratitude, he gave the bullet extracted from his wound to the Fatima shrine, and it now adorns the crown of a statue of the Virgin where Benedict will pray on Wednesday evening.
On Tuesday, in his most thorough admission of the church's guilt in the clerical sex abuse scandal, Benedict said the greatest persecution of the institution is born from the sins within the church, and not from a campaign by outsiders.
The pontiff said the Catholic church has always been tormented by problems of its own making - a tendency that is being witnessed today in a terrifying way.
Benedict's statement made en route to Lisbon was a shift from the Vatican's initial claim that the church was the victim of a campaign by the media and abortion rights and pro-gay marriage groups.
Like many European countries, Portugal has strayed far from its Catholic roots, passing laws in recent years allowing abortion on demand and divorce even when one of the spouses is opposed.
Earlier this year, Parliament passed a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry.
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Thousands make pilgrimage to Chilean sanctuary
(8 Dec 2015) Thousands of Catholic pilgrims flocked on Tuesday to the Valparaiso region of Chile to honour Virgin Mary at the Sanctuary of Lo Vasquez.
In this region, faithful venerate the Virgin Mary, also known as Virgin of the Immaculate Conception of Lo Vasquez, each year.
People make the pilgrimage to ask for blessings and to make penitence for blessings granted.
Local authorities say some 800-thousand faithful are expected to make the pilgrimage from different parts of the country, local media reported.
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Preparations for pope's arrival in Portugal
(12 May 2017) Pope Francis and pilgrims from around the world are flocking to a Portuguese Catholic shrine town to honour two poor, illiterate shepherd children whose visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago marked one of the most important events of the 20th century Catholic Church.
Francis arrives Friday to celebrate the centenary of the apparitions and canonize the children. He is hoping the message of peace that they reported 100 years ago, when Europe was in the throes of World War I, will resonate with the Catholic faithful today.
For days now, church groups, families and individuals have made their way to Fatima, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Lisbon, some on their knees in prayer.
Carrying candles, rosaries and roses, they have made their way to the statue dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima or tossed wax body parts - ears, hearts, limbs - into a huge fire to pray for healing.
On May 13, 1917, while they were grazing their sheep, the children claimed they saw the first of a half-dozen visions of the Virgin Mary.
They said she revealed to them three secrets, apocalyptic messages foreshadowing World War II, hell, the rise and fall of communism and the death of a pope, and urged them to pray for peace and turn away from sin.
At first doubted by the local Catholic Church and even their parents, the children's story gained believers and was eventually accepted as an authentic apparition by the church in 1930.
The children being canonized, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, who were nine and seven at the time of the claimed apparitions, died about two years later.
Their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, at 10 the ringleader of the group who became the main raconteur of their tale, is on track for beatification. Her case couldn't begin until after her death, in 2005.
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PORTUGAL: FATIMA: PREPARATIONS FOR POPE VISIT
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The town of Fatima, Portugal on Thursday is making final preparations for the visit of
Pope John Paul II.
He will make a 24-hour visit to the town during which he will beatify two deceased children who are said to have had visions of the Virgin Mary there.
Even though a heavy rain poured down, the believers did not halt in their spiritual journey.
Fatima is one of only two places in the world where the Vatican acknowledges that visions have occurred.
The other is Lourdes, France.
The siblings Jacinta and Francisco Marto said that the Virgin Mary appeared to them.
They said they saw the Virgin Mary above an olive tree on May 13th, 1917.
During the following five months they claimed to have seen other visions each month.
Pope John Paul on Saturday will beatify Jacinta Marto and her brother Francisco - both of whom died of pneumonia at a young age.
The surviving child, their cousin Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, now 92, has been cloistered in a Carmelite convent in central Portugal since 1929.
As security is tightened in the town, the faithful eagerly await the pontiff's arrival.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Tomorrow is supposed to be this special moment. The pope is supposed to speak to us. About the peace in his country and the situation in Sierra Leone.
SUPER CAPTION: Voxpop (man from Angola)
Fatima is a small rural town 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Lisbon
Many believers came from far to witness the beatification by the pope, a central event in their lives.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
It's the centre of our religion as far as our blessed mother is concerned. We organized this trip for the spirit of Jesus.
SUPER CAPTION: Voxpop (American woman)
Some 6 (m) million people visit Fatima, a town of 8 - thousand people, each year.
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Pope leaves Rome for his visit to Fatima
(12 May 2017) Pope Francis departed from Rome's Fiumicino airport on Friday morning for his trip to Fatima, Portugal.
The pontiff arrives in town to celebrate the centenary of the apparitions of Virgin Mary to two poor, illiterate, shepherd children - one of the most important events of the 20th Century to the Catholic Church.
During his 24-hour visit, Pope Francis plans to meet privately with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
After a journey in his popemobile in Fatima, he will pray at the chapel dedicated to the apparitions and send a greeting out of the crowd, which is expected to number as many as one million.
On Saturday, Pope Francis meets with Prime Minister Antonio Costa and visits the basilica built on the site where the children reported the first apparition, with the canonisation of the children to be held in Fatima's main square.
After a lunch with his bishops, he will return to Rome.
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Pope Francis travels to Aparecida and officiates mass for thousands of faithful
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1. Mid of military helicopter carrying Pope Francis coming to land near Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, UPSOUND: Announcer at event
2. Wide of thousands of Catholics cheering and singing outside of the basilica as they watch helicopter carrying the Pope, UPSOUND: Announcer at event
3. Close up of woman smiling and waving a flag with the image of Pope Francis on it, AUDIO: Music
4. Tilt down of basilica and thousands of people in front of it waving flags, AUDIO: Music
5. Mid of Pope Francis exiting military helicopter that has landed near basilica
6. Mid of Pope Francis on 'popemobile' waving at crowds outside of basilica
7. Pull out of crowds outside of basilica
8. Mid of Pope Francis kissing a child from the 'popemobile'
9. Wide of 'popemobile' making its way toward basilica
10. Mid of Pope Francis entering the Chapel of the Apostles, inside the basilica and bowing his head in prayer, before the Virgin of Aparecida, Brazil's patron
11. Pull out of the statue Virgin of Aparecida, Brazil's patron
12. Close up of Pope Francis' face as he looks at statue of Virgin of Aparecida, AUDIO: Music
13. Mid of statue, AUDIO: Music
14. UPSOUND (Portuguese) Pope Francis:
Mother Aparecida, you carried the child inside you that would be consecrated the father, with the ability to carry on his mission.
15. Close up of statue
16. Pull out of Pope Francis laying his hand on the casing where the statue is stored, doing sign of the cross then walking away
17. Top shot of basilica as Mass is about to start
18. Mid of Pope Francis walking down aisle accompanied by other church officials
19. Mid of Pope Francis giving blessing as he walks down church aisle
20. Top shot of Mass
21. Mid of clergy giving Pope Francis a statue of Virgin Aparecida and Pope Francis holding it and kissing it
22. Mid of Pope Francis swinging incense holder from the altar
23. Wide of parishioners, one of them is a man with a physically disabled child
24. Wide of Pope Francis at altar talking from behind the pulpit
25. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Pope Francis:
I can't tell you how happy I am to be here, at the house of the holy mother of the Brazilians, the shrine of Our Holy Lady of Aparecida.
26. Wide of Catholic faithful watching Mass from outside as it is played on big screens
27. Wide of Mass being celebrated
28. Mid of Pope Francis holding up dish for the communion wafers, then holding up the cup for communion wine
29. Top shot of basilica during mass
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis urged Catholics to resist the ephemeral idols of money, power and pleasure in Brazil on Wednesday on his first international trip.
Francis spoke at the first public Mass of his trip in an emotional visit to one of the most important shrines in Latin America.
Thousands packed into the cavernous Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, tucked into an agricultural region of verdant fields halfway between Rio and Sao Paulo.
Tens of thousands more braved cold rain outside to catch a glimpse of the first Pope from the Americas returning to a shrine of great meaning to the continent and him personally.
Before the Mass, Francis stood in silent prayer before the 15-inch-tall (38 cm) image of the Virgin of Aparecida, the Black Mary, his eyes tearing up as he breathed heavily.
It was a deeply personal moment for this pontiff, who has entrusted his papacy to the Virgin Mary and, like many Catholics in Latin America, places great importance in Marian devotion.
During his homily, Francis urged Brazilians to keep Christian values of faith, generosity and fraternity, a message he was expected to repeat later in the day during a visit to a drug rehabilitation centre in Rio de Janeiro.
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PORTUGAL: POPE JOHN PAUL II VISIT
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More than half a (m) million pilgrims gathered in the Portuguese town of Fatima to attend the pope's beatification of a shepherd boy and girl whom he credits with a miracle that saved his life in a 1981 assassination attempt.
The crowds watched the pope beatify Jacinta Marto and her brother Francisco, who said the Virgin Mary appeared to them and their cousin Lucia dos Santos above an olive tree six times in 1917 and told them three secrets.
Dos Santos, who is now 93 and the only one of the three still alive, met the pope in Fatima on Saturday.
Pope John Paul the Second weaved through the cheering throng in Fatima for 40 minutes in his popemobile before the beatification.
The pope is said to have a special fondness for Fatima since 1981, when he was wounded in an assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square.
The shooting happened on May 13, the anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin in Fatima, 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of Lisbon.
One of the two bullets that hit the pope is placed in a statue of the Virgin Mary at Fatima - a town of 8-thousand people.
When he came to Fatima on May 12 the following year to thank the Virgin, he survived another assassination attempt by a fundamentalist Spanish priest who lunged at him with a bayonet, accusing him of betraying the Church.
On Saturday, the crowds watched the pope beatify Jacinta Marto and her brother Francisco, who said the Virgin Mary appeared to them and their cousin Lucia dos Santos above an olive tree six times in 1917 and told them three secrets.
Many pilgrims hoped the pope would reveal the last of three secrets the shepherd children said the Virgin told them.
The first two foretold the end of World War I and the rise and fall of Communism.
Dos Santos, who is now 93, has told the third secret to the Vatican but successive popes have refused to disclose it.
She sat in silent prayer beside the tombs of her cousins before joining the beatification ceremony in Fatima's neo-Baroque basilica and meeting the pope.
The beatified shepherd children died of pneumonia two years after the visions, at the ages of 9 and 11.
The pope's visit to Fatima was expected to be his last foreign trip this year amid a heavy agenda of 2000 Holy Year commitments.
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PORTUGAL: POPE JOHN PAUL II ARRIVAL
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Pope John Paul II is in Portugal ahead of a beatification ceremony on Saturday.
The pope was greeted by Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio at a brief ceremony at Lisbon airport.
It was just a short stop-off before the pope continued his journey to Fatima, where he will hold Saturday's ceremony, with thousands of devotees in attendance.
He will beatify two shepherds who as children said they witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
Pope John Paul II's Alitalia plane touched down in Lisbon shortly after six p-m (1700 GMT).
Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio and his wife Maria Jose Ritta greeted the pope as he stepped out of the plane.
Prime Minister Antonio Guterres and Portuguese church officials were also at the aiport.
The pontiff, who turns 80 next week, carried on his journey to Fatima, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Lisbon, in a helicopter.
The beatification ceremony is scheduled for Saturday morning at the sanctuary.
Three shepherd children said the Virgin Mary appeared to them six times at Fatima in 1917.
Jacinta Marto and her brother Francisco, the two children to be beatified, died when they were nine and 11 years old.
The surviving child, their cousin Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, now 92, has been at a Carmelite convent in central Portugal since 1929.
She will meet the Pope on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of people from all over the world have streamed into the rural town, many of them exhausted pilgrims who walked for days and slept in the open air.
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I find it very emotional and a wonderful privilege to be here at this time while we're celebrating the great jubilee of the year 2000 and also this remarkable happening when the Holy Father is going to beatify two of the visionaries to whom our blessed lady Fatima appeared in 1917.
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Portugal is mounting its largest-ever security operation for the papal visit.
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New cardinals react as they are greeted by friends and family
(28 Jun 2018) Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church 14 new cardinals on Thursday, with many of the choices reflecting his determination that the church be known for tireless attention to those on society's margins.
He also turned his attention to countries located far from the Vatican after centuries of European dominance of the ranks of cardinals, honouring churchmen from Peru, Madagascar and Japan, which has a tiny minority of Catholics.
Among those receiving the cardinals' biretta - a crimson-red square cap with three ridges - was Peru's new cardinal, Huancayo Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno, a Jesuit like Pope Francis.
Speaking to reporters inside the Vatican Paul VI Hall during a post-ceremony reception, Baretto Jimeno said that the social exclusion of migrants is an issue all must address.
The cardinal also stressed that humanity is at stake when people, especially women, are mistreated.
With Thursday's ceremony, there are now 226 cardinals worldwide, 74 of them named by Francis during his 5-year-old papacy.
Of that total, 125 cardinals are younger than 80 and can vote in a conclave for the next pope when the current pope dies or resigns: 59 of them appointed by Francis, 47 by Pope Benedict XVI, his predecessor, and 19 named by Pope John Paul II.
Three of those named Thursday are too old to participate in selecting the next pope.
In his homily, Francis told the new cardinals to avoid the quest of honors, jealousy, envy, intrigue, accommodation and compromise.
Other new cardinals include:
Monsignor Antonio dos Santos Marto, bishop of Leiria-Fatima, which includes Portugal's popular shrine town;
Monsignor Desire Tsarahazana, archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar;
Monsignor Thomas Aquinas Manyo, who was bishop of Hiroshima before Francis made him archbishop of Osaka, Japan;
Monsignor Luis Ladaria, a Spanish theologian who heads the powerful Vatican office in charge of ensuring doctrinal orthodoxy;
Monsignor Giovanni Angelo Becciu, an Italian whose diplomatic career includes serving as ambassador to Cuba;
Monsignor Angelo De Donatis, the Rome vicar general;
The three new prelates too old to vote in a conclave included Sergio Obeso Rivera, Emeritus Archbishop of Xalapa, Mexico; Spanish priest Aquilino Bocos Merino; and Bolivian Monsignor Toribio Ticona Porco.
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