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ex-voto
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    • call_me_rhia
  • By call_me_rhia on March 9, 2004
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    • at the ex-voto shrine - Fátima
    at the ex-voto shrine
    by call_me_rhia
    Just before rwaching the hapel of the apparitions, in the corner, there's a sort of shrine where people bring wax objects as ex-votos, to be burned. One common votive gift, beside was candles, are casts of the afflicted body part (especially hands and legs): by burning them, pilgrims request healing for that part of the body

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    3 Children
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    • TinKan
  • By TinKan on March 25, 2003
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    • The 3 children - Fátima
    The 3 children
    by TinKan
    The Blessed Virgin Mary it is said appeared six times to three shepherd children near the town of Fatima in Portugal between May 13th and October 13th 1917. Appearing to the children, she told them that she had been sent by God with a message for every man, woman and child living in our century. Coming at a time when civilization was torn apart by war and violence, she promised that Heaven would grant peace to the entire world if her requests for prayer, reparation and consecration were heard and obeyed.

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    Promises
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  • Updated By solopes on October 21, 2008
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    • Fatima - Portugal - Fátima
    Fatima - Portugal
    by solopes
    It's common in Portugal when facing dramatic situations (disease, trouble in a birth of a child, even scholar examinations) to make a promise, most of them to "Nª Srª de Fátima". And those promises generally include walking to Fatima on foot (sometimes hundreds of kilometers) or crossing the sanctuary kneeling. To soften those pilgrims suffering a long walkway was built in marble, and there is always someone painfully sliding on it.
    When I approached the man to ask permission to take his family photo, the deficient woman in the wheelchair had some agitation, that the kneeling woman translated - she wants to kiss you. Well, sometimes is not so difficult to bring happiness to simple people.

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    The 13th of the month
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  • Updated By mikelisaanna on July 8, 2006
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    • The 13th days of the months of May through October are Fatima's busiest days. Those were the days when the shepherd children had their visions of VIrgin Mary in 1917, and pilgrims still come to Fatima on those days every year.

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    Burn a candle
    Imaniac
  • By Imaniac on October 26, 2003
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    • Burning a candle - Fátima
    Burning a candle
    by Imaniac
    In catholic religions it is a custom to burn a candle for your loved ones. This is aldo the case in fatima. But instead of burning a candle you throw it into a huge open fire. Not only normal candles are burnt, but also candles in the shape of body parts. For instance you burn a candle in the shape of a leg, to pray for your mother who just had her leg broken.

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    Sinners
    Imaniac
  • Updated By Imaniac on April 11, 2004
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    • Sinners or saints? - Fátima
    Sinners or saints?
    by Imaniac
    People come to Fatima from all over the world, but especially from Portugal to pay for their sins. They do this by walking across the square on their knees. The distance between one end of the square and the other end is enormous, twice as big as the Vatican Square. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes (or knees). Ultimately this is what Fatima is so famous for.

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