Private tours in Lisbon & surroundings
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Fatima - full day
Personalized booking
Program
Tour to Fatima: visit the Sanctuary and the Basilica – with the tombstones of the shepherds and the Chapel of
Apparitions - heart of the shrine – where Our Lady appeared to Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco. In the Chapel of the
Apparitions, in the Basilica or in the new church you can attend mass and confess. Near the Chapel you can light a
candle and make a vow to Our Lady. Leading to the Chapel, there's a marble passage crossed by pilgrims on their
knees to ask physical and spiritual heal or fulfil a promise. In front of the Chapel there's a water source.
Aljustrel - visit the humble houses where the 3 shepheards, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco were born and lived. In the
Ethnographic Regional Centre, next to Lucía's house, are a lot of articles like letters of Lucia, furniture of the
shepherds houses, pictures connected with the miracles, clothes, etc.
Valinhos - see the place where Our Lady of Fatima appeared for the 4th time in August 19th, 1917.
Loca do Anjo - visit the place where the children saw the apparition of the Angel for the first and third time.Via
Crucis - 14 small chapels in memory of Jesus' passion.
Before an hour drive back to Lisbon, we make a comfort stop in a store of religious handicraft.
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...The Catholic Church regards the three parts of the Fatima Secret and the total Fatima message to be important and
of great value to the spiritual lives of its people. It consists only of prophecies about the new condition of the Church
in the world.... Fatima and its Secret do present us with something deeply serious, for they bring us face to face with
the mysteries of eternal life. Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions.Faith and prayer are
forces which can influence history and that in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful
than armies...On the 13th of October of 1917, Our Lady of Fatima told the 3 little shepherds 3 secrets, after what was
called the Miracle of the Sun, an alleged miraculous event that was witnessed by as many as 100,000 people.
According to many witness statements, after a downfall of rain, the clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque,
spinning disk in the sky. It was said to be significantly less bright than normal, and cast multicolored lights across the
landscape, the shadows on the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to have
careened towards the earth in a zigzag pattern. Witnesses reported that the ground and their previously wet clothes
became completely dry…The 3 secrets from Our Lady of Fatima: 1-the first war would finish but if people didn't stop
offending God, another worse one would come. 2-That there would be a revolution in Russia and persecutions
against the church; everyone should have faith to withstand the advance of evil (showing the vision of hell, a lot of fire
that seemed to be under the earth where demons and souls were put in human forms burning among screams and
wailings of pain. 3-The Pope revealed partially the third secret on his visit to Fátima on the 13th of May of 2000: after
Our Lady said the two secrets, we have seen an angel a little farther up with an incandescent sword on the left hand
that seemed to set the world on fire. But the flames of the sword went out with the shine coming from the Virgin's right
hand, pointed inits direction. Several Bishops, priests, religious and nuns going up a mountain, at the top of which
there was a big cross. The Pope, before arriving there, crossed a city in ruins and he went praying for the dead
bodies that he found on the road. Arriving to the top of the mountain he was shot by soldiers and likewise were also
shot religious people and several people of several social classes…
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