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Cova da Iria is in Fátima, Portugal. Fátima basilica Fátima esplanade, 13/05/2003 Religious articles, 13/05/2003 Fátima is a town in Portugal famous for the religious visions that are said to have taken place there in 1917. ...


Pilgrims honouring the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima gather in Cova da Iria, on a huge esplanade in which is built a little chapel where the Virgin is believed to have appeared to the children. Around the esplanade are a considerable number of shops and stalls selling all kinds of religious articles. This photograph is claimed to show an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Egypt in 1968. ... Our Lady of Fatima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora do Rosário da Fátima) is one of the best-known Marian apparitions in the world. ...


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Cova da Iria ("Irene's Cove") is a few acres of former pastureland near Aljustrel, a village about a mile from Fátima, Portugal.
The visions were declared worthy of belief by the Catholic Church and are now popularly known as Our Lady of Fatima.
Pilgrims honouring the apparitions gather in Cova da Iria, on a huge esplanade in which is built a little chapel on the site where the Virgin is believed to have appeared to the children.
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