Located
in west central Portugal, in the region
of
Leiria and approximately 110 kilometers
north
of Lisbon, the small town of Fatima is
one
of the most visited Marian shrines
(Santuários)
in the world today.
But
unlike many of Europe's great Marian
pilgrimage
sites, the sanctity of Fatima dates
not
from the Middle Ages but only from early
in
the 20th century. Fatima was then a small
rural
village in a rocky region whose main
product
was olive oil. There are no historical
or
legendary accounts of the village or
surrounding
area having any religious
importance
in earlier times. In the years
1916
and 1917 a series of apparitions
were
seen by three young children that
were
to profoundly alter both their own
lives
and the atmosphere of the peasant village.
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