Over 8 million people visit Fátima in Portugal, and I’ve visited TWICE this year, once in May and today. The story began on May 13, 1917, when three peasant children saw five apparitions of the Virgin Mary, on the 13th of the next five months. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos (who became a Carmelite nun… Read More The Fátima miracle
Yesterday was a transfer day, meaning several hours on the bus. We left at 9:00 am and didn’t arrive in Fátima until 5:00 pm! However, I’m grateful that our tour director planned a three hour stop in Porto, one of my favorite cities in Portugal. When we arrived in Porto, we walked across one of… Read More We are in Portugal!
Our hotel, the Hotel Fátima could not be any closer to the site where the Miracle of Fátima occurred. In fact, I could hear the priest chanting and the organ playing from my hotel room. We arrived in late afternoon and Pedro, our guide, quickly gave us an overview of the site, when I took… Read More The Fátima experience