Standing in marked circles to maintain a social distance and put on masks, thousands of faithful accumulated and held candles in one of the most prominent sacred places of Catholicism in Portugal on Monday night (October 12): the sanctuary of Fatima.
Many, like the worshipper Antonio Pinto, prayed for the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This year I pray for doctors, nurses, security forces, journalists, who are also fighting against what is not simple and I pray for all those who paint opposites to the coronavirus, which has been very hard, and for the leaders of the government, for them. not corruption, hatred, violence, wars. “
Every October, about one hundred and 000 more people go to the shrine of Fatima to commemorate the third and final reported vision of the Virgin Mary of Christianity, the mother of Jesus, more than a hundred years ago.
But this year, only another 6,000 people were allowed to attend.
The Catholic Church teaches that the Virgin Mary gave the impression to 3 young Portuguese in 1917 in Fatima, which was then a deficient agricultural people.
He believes that the Virgin Mary gave young people 3 messages, the so-called secrets of Fatima.
The pandemic is about to leave lasting scars on Portugal’s tourism-dependent economy, adding options like Fatima, where companies rely heavily on abroad to survive.