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Local Church•Virgin Mary

How Many People Visited the Fatima Shrine in Portugal in 2023? Record Numbers Are Released

The data presented on the afternoon of February 8, at the 45th Meeting of Hoteliers and Managers of Religious Houses that Welcome Pilgrims in Fátima, are in line with what was recorded before the pandemic. The number of countries from which the pilgrims come is the highest since 2017. The Sanctuary welcomed people from 94 countries, a figure that was only higher in the year of the Centenary of the Apparitions, with 109 different nationalities present in Cova da Iria.

Local Church•Pope Francis

Catholic Funeral of Former Chilean President Sebastian Piñera, Including Pope’s Message

He would have pursued two objectives with his work, one explicit and the other private. The first, which he expressed repeatedly, was “to achieve the greatest glory of God and the goods of souls,” and the other, revealed in his correspondence with Father Gaspar Juárez and with Ambrosio Funes, a well-known resident of the city of Córdoba and former student of Father Juárez, to whom he seems to have expressed his most intimate concerns, was the restoration of order. He wanted to see the Jesuits “restored to honor and joy” and “with their own cassocks.”