Private tours in Lisbon & surroundings
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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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