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24 february, 2016

Fatima Shrine offers a statue of Our Lady to archbishop of Aracaju

The Bishop of Leiria-Fatima offered a statue of Our Lady of Fatima to the Archdiocese of Aracaju, in the Brazilian state of Sergipe, during a meeting this Wednesday evening, with its Archbishop, José Lessa.

22 february, 2016

Fatima Shrine widens the Musical Creative Workshops

Babies at 4 months of age can now participate in the Musical Creative Workshops (Oficinas Musicais Criativas – OMC), an initiative promoted and organized by the Shrine of Fatima. It is the IV edition of an artistic project, experienced from the faith, in which babies and toddlers can participate.

20 february, 2016

A catechism on the Message of Fatima and the prayer of the Rosary for children

The 1500 children, coming from different diocese such as Lisbon, Leiria-Fatima and Portalegre-Castelo Branco, participated in a celebration called “Meeting with the Shepherds” which occurred in the Basilica of Most Holy Trinity, in Fatima.

18 february, 2016

Alexandre Palma, speaker at the third conference of the cycle of conferences 2015/2016

This conference will be held on the 14th, at 16h00, in the Retreat House of Our Lady of Sorrows, and integrates the cycle of conferences proposed by the Shrine of Fatima for this thematic year “I have come that they may have life”.

07 february, 2016

Pilgrims of the Apostleship of Prayer of Toledo to accomplish a prayer vigil in the Apparition Chapel

About a thousand pilgrims of the Apostleship of Prayer of Toledo - more than 500 young people, fifty priests and over a hundred families, mostly young - are in the Shrine of Fatima since yesterday, in the context of its 25th Pilgrimage.

05 february, 2016

Lent: Bishop of the diocese of Leiria-Fatima presents “Ways of Mercy”

2016 Lent "cannot be just like the past years," for this year we have in our heart the Holy Year of Mercy, says the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima in the message for this Lent, released to all diocesan this Friday.

05 february, 2016

Bishop António Marto: the message of Fatima is "after the Scriptures" the "strongest and more impressive [complaint] of sin in the world”

The message of Fatima is "after the Scriptures" the "strongest and more impressive complaint of sin in the world” which call the whole Church and the whole world for a serious examination of conscience," said this afternoon the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima at the Lectio Magistralis he gave for the academic session which took place in the Auditorium Cardeal Medeiros, in the context of the celebrations of the National Day of the Catholic University of Portugal, this year entitled "Cultivate the Ecology of Knowledge."

04 february, 2016

Bishop António Marto asks hotel managers to make of Fatima a "house of hospitality, warmth and celebration"

The Bishop of Leiria Fatima said this afternoon at the opening of the XXXVIII Annual Meeting of Hotel Managers, promoted by the Shrine, that "Fatima belongs to everyone" and the pilgrims who arrive have to be welcomed properly.

04 february, 2016

Fatima Shrine challenges its workers to learn more about the message of Fatima

On its way to the Centennial, the Fatima Shrine provides moments of training to their workers, in order for them to deepen the knowledge about the history of the apparitions.

03 february, 2016

Fatima Shrine wants to present the message through "new languages" to reach new audience

This Wednesday, the Rector of the Shrine of Fatima said, in a press conference, that the celebration of the Centennial of the Apparitions "has to go through new languages" to reach those who don’t feel "in tune" with Fatima.

05 november, 2015

Fatima Shrine launches the Photography Prize "Centenary of the Fatima Apparitions"

As part of the centenary celebrations of the Apparitions, the Shrine of Fatima invites photography enthusiasts and amateurs to participate in the Photography Prize "Centenary of the Fatima Apparitions". The initiative, aimed at Portuguese and foreign photographers, takes into account the close relationship of photography with Fatima, yesterday as today, and the importance of this art to contemporary culture.

04 september, 2015

"The dramatic refugee crisis demands concrete solutions" - Rector of the Fatima Shrine

Photography: The Italian Coastguard/Massimo Sestini.The Rector of the Fatima Shrine, Fr. Carlos Cabecinhas, said today "the dramatic refugee crisis to which Europe must respond cannot leave us indifferent and demands concrete solutions"; and he also said further "the Sanctuary will provide a home for stable reception of refugees." The Rector announced that, in addition to this initiative, "the sanctuary will also provide a building, normally used to house pilgrims, to welcome transitorily, those refugees awaiting for permanent housing."

02 september, 2015

His Excellency Wilmar Santin, bishop of Itaituba, presides at the International Pilgrimage of September

The Anniversary International Pilgrimage on September 12 and 13 will be presided over by his Excellency Wilmar Santin, bishop of Itaituba, Brazil. At the Press Room of the Sanctuary, he said this was his first visit as a bishop, in spite of having already visited Fatima several times, "all of them a beautiful experience of faith."

28 august, 2015

Postponed the visit of the Pilgrim Image to Syria

With the date of August 27, 2015, the Shrine of Fatima received a communication from His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III of Damascus, Syria, informing that, because the conditions in Damascus were aggravated, he does not consider opportune and convenient the visit of the Pilgrim Image of Our Lady of Fatima to that diocese. So he asks for delaying the visit to a later and more favorable date. As the Shrine of Fatima has announced to the media, on August 12, that this visit of the Pilgrim Image to Damascus was scheduled for 7 to 9 September, 2015, makes now known its postponement. Rectory

12 august, 2015

Fatima Shrine Museum celebrates 60 years of existence

In August 2015 are completed 60 years of the Sanctuary Museum creation by an episcopal decree of his Excellency José Alves Correia da Silva, Bishop of Leiria.

12 august, 2015

Fatima Shrine engages Catholic schools in the celebration of the Apparitons Centennial

A new school year is coming in Portugal, for next September. In another initiative proposed by the Sanctuary of Fatima, and carried out within the context of the official program of the Apparitions Centenary, the Portuguese Catholic schools are invited to take part in a multidisciplinary competition, that will reach the highest point with a cultural session at the III National Pilgrimage to Fatima of the Catholic schools, on October 21, 2016.

29 july, 2015

August, 12 and 13: Bishop of the Armed Forces and Security of Portugal presides at the international pilgrimage of August

His Excellency, Manuel Linda, Bishop of the Armed Forces and Security of Portugal, presides in Fatima at the international pilgrimage of 12 and 13, August, which has as its central theme this motto: "We form one body" (Ephesians 4: 4), and in which is also integrated the migrant annual pilgrimage to Fatima.

30 june, 2015

July 26: Shrine of Fatima celebrates Grandparents Day

"Blessed are those families whose grandparents are close!" (Pope Francis)

06 december, 2014

On December 8

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

29 november, 2014

«In this valley of tears» Evocative exhibition of the apparition of August 1917

In the year the Sanctuary of Fatima reflects, in a special way, on the fourth Marian apparition in the Cova da Iria, which, according to the testimony of the seers, occurred in August 1917, the exhibition "In this valley of tears", adopting as maxim the words of the hymn ‘Hail Holy Queen’ [Salve Regina], presents to visitors a reflection on the political and ideological context that marked the country and the world, during the second decade of the 20th century.

29 november, 2014

Rector of Fatima Shrine presents the new pastoral year - Sanctified in Christ

The 5th cycle of the thematic itinerary, that guides the life of the Sanctuary over seven years until 2017, takes as its starting point the apparition of Our Lady in August 1917. The option to set about, in each cycle of this septenary, reflecting on an apparition allows us to identify the fundamental ideas of the Fatima message and deepen its most significant topics, by fasting together in an organic and coherent way.

11 november, 2014

Opening Journey of the Pastoral Year 2014-2015 - Sanctified in Christ

The Sanctuary of Fatima invites all those interested to the Opening Journey of the Pastoral Year 2014-2015, on the afternoon of November 29, Saturday, at the Pastoral Centre Paul VI. This Journey will mark officially the beginning of a new pastoral year at the Fatima Shrine, namely, the fifth of the septennial celebrating and commemorating the Centenary of the Apparitions.

24 october, 2014

Sermões do Rosário [Sermons on the Rosary] presented at Fatima on October 31

The Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima invites everyone to be present at the launching session of the volumes containing the Sermons on the Rosary - Maria Rosa Mystica, from the Complete Works of Fr. António Vieira. The session will take place in the Hall of Our Lady of Sorrows House of Retreats, at the Fatima Shrine, on Friday, October 31, starting at 15:00.

14 october, 2014

Arvo Pärt composes music dedicated to the Little Shepherds of Fatima

Arvo Pärt, famous and important composer in the field of contemporary music, created a musical piece dedicated to the Little Shepherds of Fatima, whose manuscript will be published in the October issue of Fatima XXI - Cultural Journal of the Sanctuary of Fatima. Fr. Carlos Cabecinhas announced that the piece will be presented in a concert on February 20, 2015, in Lisbon Cathedral.