Santuário de Fátima (Portugal)

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Santuário de Fátima

Fátima: Place of miracles.

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Dedicação da Igreja da Santíssima Trindade será a 12 de Outubro 2007 pelo Cardeal Bertone

90th Anniversary of the Apparitions - October 2007

It is with joy that we present ithe general program of the concluding ceremonies of the commemorations of the 90th anniversary of the Apparitions.

We pray to Our Heavenly Mother that it be a time of Light and Peace for all.

NEW CHURCH - Santíssima Trindade
PREPERED TO RECEIVE NINE THOUSAND PILGRIMS





CHAPEL OF APPARITIONS
BASILICA
PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL
THE BIG HOLMOAK
MONUMENT TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS (1932)
HOUSE OF OUR LADY OF DOLOURS
RECTORY
BERLIN WALL
HOUSE OF OUR LADY OF CARMEL
PAUL VI PASTORAL CENTER
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Capelinha das Aparições, Muro de Berlim, Presépio, Estátua do Imaculado Coração de Maria...
Basílica, Órgão, Capela do Lausperene


Feita segundo indicações da Irmã Lúcia, a primeira Imagem da Virgem Peregrina de Fátima foi oferecida pelo Sr. Bispo de Leiria e coroada solenemente pelo Sr. Arcebispo de Évora, a 13 de Maio de 1947. A partir dessa data, a imagem percorreu, por diversas vezes, o mundo inteiro, levando consigo uma mensagem...

A 13 de Maio de 1917, três crianças apascentavam um pequeno rebanho na Cova da Iria, freguesia de Fátima, concelho de Vila Nova de Ourém, hoje diocese de Leiria-Fátima. Chamavam-se Lúcia de Jesus, de 10 anos, e Francisco e Jacinta Marto, seus primos, de 9 e 7 anos.
Por volta do meio dia, depois de rezarem o terço, como habitualmente faziam, entretinham-se a construir uma pequena casa de pedras soltas, no local onde hoje se encontra a Basílica. De repente, viram uma luz brilhante; julgando ser um relâmpago, decidiram ir-se embora, mas, logo abaixo, outro clarão iluminou o espaço, e viram em cima de uma pequena azinheira (onde agora se encontra a Capelinha das Aparições), uma "Senhora mais brilhante que o sol", de cujas mãos pendia um terço branco.

NEW CHURCH - Santíssima Trindade



On 13 May 1917, three children were pasturing their little flock in the Cova da Iria, parish of Fatima, town of Vila Nova de Ourém. today the diocese of Leiria-Fatima. They were called: Lucia de Jesus, aged 10, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged 9 and 7.
About midday, after praying the Rosary, as was their custom, they were amusing themselves building a little house of stones scattered around he place where the Basilica now stands. Suddenly they saw a brilliant light, and thinking it to be lightning, they decided to go home. But as they went down the slope another flash lit up the place, and they saw on the top of a holmoak (where the Chapel of Apparitions now stands), "a Lady more brilliant than the sun", from whose hands hung a white rosary.

CHAPEL OF APPARITIONS
The very heart of the Sanctuary. It was the first edifice constructed in the Cova da Iria, at the place of Our Lady´s Apparitions. The exact spot is marked by a marble pillar on which the Statue of Our Lady is placed. Here converge the four million pilgrims who visit the Sanctuary each year.

BASILICA
Begun in 1928 and consecrated on 7 October 1953, its 15 altars are dedicated to the 15 mysteries of the Rosary.
The painting above the high altar depicts the Message of Our Lady to the little shepherds, prepared by the Angel of Portugal, through their encounter with Christ in the Eucharist. The Bishop of the diocese is shown kneeling on the left side, and the figures of Pope Pius XII (who consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1942, and whose Legate crowned the Statue of Our Lady in 1946), of Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.
Scenes of the apparitions are represented in stained glass, as well as invocations from the Litany of Our Lady.
In the four corners of the Basilica interior are placed the statues of the great apostles of the Rosary and of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary: St. Anthony Claret, St. Dominic of Gusman, St. John Eudes and St. Stephen, King of Hungary.
The tombs of Francisco and Jacinta are in the Basilica, and, in the chancel, are the mortal remains of D. José Alves Correia da Silva, first Bishop of Leiria after its restoration in 1920.
The monumental organ, mounted in 1952, has about 12 thousand pipes.

PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL
Situated at the end of the colonnade, on the eastern side, this chapel for perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament exposed, is a place of silent prayer and adoration.

What the pilgrims should see in Fatima:
CHAPEL OF APPARITIONS
BASILICA
PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL
THE BIG HOLMOAK
MONUMENT TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS (1932)
HOUSE OF OUR LADY OF DOLOURS
RECTORY
BERLIN WALL
HOUSE OF OUR LADY OF CARMEL
PAUL VI PASTORAL CENTER