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This article was most recently revised and updated by Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer. Fátima, village and sanctuary, central Portugal. It is located on the tableland of Cova da Iria, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Leiria.
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The Sanctuary of Fátima, officially titled Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima, is a Marian shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima located in Fátima, in the municipality of Ourém, in Portugal.
Fátima ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfatimɐ] ⓘ) is a city in the municipality of Ourém and district of Santarém in the Central 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 Sanctuary of Fátima ( Portuguese: Santuário de Fátima ), officially titled Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima ( Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima ), is a Marian shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima located in Fátima, in the municipality of Ourém, in Portugal. It consists of a group of Catholic religious buildings and structures with the Basilica of Our ...
So where is Fátima? The town of Fátima is located in the central part of Portugal, in the third largest district in the country, the District of Santarém. It is about 125 km (78 miles) to the north of the capital, Lisbon, and 170 km (106 miles) to the south of Porto.
The Sanctuary of Fatima is one of the biggest European sanctuaries after Lourdes. It is located where the Lady appeared to the three shepherds in 1917.
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Fátima Basilica, Fatima, Portugal Fátima is a world famous pilgrimage town in the Estremadura region of Portugal, 128 km north of the Portuguese capital Lisbon and close to the historic town of Tomar. Second only to Lourdes as Europe's major pilgrimage center, the small town of Fátima with around 8,000 inhabitants, welcomes millions of devotees a year who come to pray at the site of a ...
