The façade, structured in three streets, has a stone image of approximately four meters high of the Virgin of Fatima made by Antonio Faílde, being found under it, in the atrium, a statue also carved in stone which It represents the three seers of Fatima kneeling and in a prayerful attitude looking directly at the Virgin, also by Faílde.
"The Virgin of Fatima - formally Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima - is an invocation with which the Virgin Mary is venerated in Catholicism . Along the same lines as other Marian apparitions , it had its origin in the testimonies of three shepherd children, named Lucía dos Santos , Jacinta and Francisco Marto , who claimed to have witnessed several Marian apparitions in the Cova da Iria , Fatima , in Portugal , between the May 13 and 13 as October as 1917. Note 1 From then on, this Marian invocation spread its fame beyond its local limits, reaching the whole world.
Prophetic and eschatological components were attributed to the messages of the apparition , in particular with regard to a possible new world war - its followers have interpreted the outbreak of World War II as its confirmation -, to the conversion of Soviet Russia , and the attempted assassination of John Paul II .
Its main place of worship is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima , located in the city of the same name in the municipality of Ourém . Considered one of the centers of pilgrimage most important Catholic of the world, the shrine of Fatima, built on the site of the apparitions, received 7.3 million pilgrims in 2011."
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