The Chapel of the Apparitions ( pt, Capelinha das Aparições) is a small chapel located in

Cova da Iria Cova da Iria is a quarter in the city and civil parish of Fátima, Santarém District, Portugal. Several of the reported Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima witnessed by the three small children-shepherds of Fátima in 1917 took place ...

that was first constructed in 1919, and again in the early 1920s, to mark the exact location where three little shepherd children reported having received the famous

apparitions Apparition may refer to: Supernatural *Apparitional experience, an anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience * A vision, something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy *Ghost, the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear ...

of the

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in Fátima,

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. The chapel was built in response to the demand of Our Lady of the Rosary (after named as Our Lady of Fátima) to the three little shepherds ( Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta): "I want you to make a chapel here in my honour". The chapel was built on the exact spot of the apparitions in Fátima in 1917 as half-remembered by Lúcia. From 28 April to 15 June 1919, the task of constructing the chapel was performed by a mason by the name of Joaquim Barbeiro from the village of Santa Catarina da Serra. On 13 October 1921, the celebration of the Mass was officially allowed by the local Bishop for the first time next to the Chapel. In 1919, the construction of the little chapel started with the authorization of Lucia's mother and the loudly publicized discreet acquiescence of the parish priest of Fátima, who could not commit himself until the Bishop made a canonical law abiding pronouncement on the matter which soon came. On 6 March 1922, anticlerical adversaries of the Catholic Church put a powerful bomb inside the unfinished Fátima chapel at Cova da Iria and heavily damaged it. Later in the year, in December, construction of the chapel was restarted. On 23 October 1922, as reported by the daily newspaper ''

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'', a group of people from the county seat of

Ourém Ourém (), formerly known as Vila Nova de Ourém, is a municipality in the district of Santarém in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 45,932, in an area of 416.68 km2. The municipality of Ourém contains two cities: Ourém (about 12,000 r ...

went to Cova da Iria and were supposed to have tried to cut down the tree of the apparitions. When Sister Lúcia heard about it she ran to the location and, much to her joy, she saw they had cut down the wrong tree, one which was close to the holm-oak which stood alone in the center of a clearing on which Our Lady had shown herself. The chapel is part of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima and it is visited at least by 6 million pilgrims every year."Fátima expects to receive 8 million visitors in 2017"
in Sapo20, December 15, 2016.

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Virgin Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

's image in the Chapel of the Apparitions.

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External links

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"''Fatima in Sister Lucia's own words''"
– Free online version of the memoir book written by Sister Lucia, O.C.D.
"''The True Story of Fatima''"
– Free online version of the book written by Father John de Marchi, I.M.C. * Video documentary
Portugal in 150 seconds: Fatima
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