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Fátima is a civil parish in the municipality of Ourém, in the Portuguese Santarém District, Beira Litoral Province. The population in 2011 was 11,596, in an area of 71.84 km². The parish encompasses several villages and localities of which Fátima, with a population of 7,756 residents, is the largest. Part of the urban agglomeration of Leiria, it is 187 km south of Porto and 123 km north of Lisbon. The civil parish has been permanently associated with the Marian apparitions that were purportedly witnessed by three local shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in 1917. The Catholic Church later recognized these events as worthy of belief. A small chap...
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  • 1. Shrine of our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima Fatima
    The Sanctuary of Fátima , also known as Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima , is a group of Catholic religious buildings and structures in Cova da Iria, in the civil parish of Fátima, in the municipality of Ourém, in Portugal. In addition to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary , the shrine comprises the Chapel of the Lausperene , a great oak tree , a monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Chapel of the Apparitions , where three children Lúcia Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, were first visited by Virgin Mary. In addition, several other structures and monuments were built in the intervening years to commemorate the events associated with the events in 1916, including: the Hostel/Retreat House of Our Lady of Sorrows , the rectory, the Hostel/Retreat House of Ou...
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  • 2. Basilica da Santissima Trindade Fatima
    The Basilica of the Holy Trinity is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in the Sanctuary of Fátima in Cova da Iria, in the civil parish of Fátima, in the municipality of Ourém in Portugal. In 2009 it received the Outstanding Structure Award by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. IABSE awards the most remarkable, innovative, creative or otherwise stimulating structure completed within the last few years.
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  • 11. Valinhos Sanctuary Fatima
    Valinhos is a hamlet on the outskirts of Fátima, Portugal, municipality of Ourém. The site is famous for the 19th August 1917 apparition of Our Lady of Fátima.
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  • 13. Fatima Fatima
    Our Lady of Fátima , is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the famed Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva declared the events worthy of belief on 13 October 1930. On 13 May 1946, Pope Pius XII granted a canonical coronation to the venerated image enshrined at the Chapel of the Apparitions of Fátima via his apostolic legate, Cardinal Benedetto Aloisi Masella. On 11 November 1954, the same Pontiff raised the Sanctuary of Fátima to the status of Minor Basilica by his Papal brief Lucer Superna. The published memoirs of Lúcia dos Santos in the 1930s revealed two secrets that she claim...
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