Fatima
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima
The Cova da Iria opens like a wide, pale field of prayer. Pilgrims cross it on foot or on their knees toward the chapel and the basilica, where the memory of 1917 is kept without haste. Portugal's light is hard and clean; the square holds it like a bowl.
A pilgrim of Palomeya comes with written names and stays for Holy Mass. The sanctuary belongs to those who serve it. Palomeya only asks a living person to walk that ground, offer what you have entrusted, and leave as quietly as the evening falls over the holm oaks.
Holy Mass
Candle and short petition
A votive candle and a written name left at the shrine.
$39
ContinueIntention for the living
A named prayer for health, family, work, or thanksgiving.
$59
ContinueIntention for the departed
A named remembrance offered at the shrine.
$59
ContinueThe rite of this shrine
The Mass, Divine Liturgy, or moleben named on the shrine page.
$89
ContinueA cycle of days
Forty days, or a nine-day novena — as this shrine keeps the custom.
$169
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