Join Canon Rafael Ueda, ICKSP, to celebrate the 109th Fatima  anniversary and visit subsequent apparition sights in Galicia, Spain! Travel to the seaside resort of Nazare, the Eucharistic Miracle city of Santarem, Braga (Bom Jesus Shrine & home of Blessed Alexandrina) and Lisbon, the city of St. Anthony’s birth; all attesting to ages of Faith in the land God chose to host the wondrous events between  His Mother and mankind.   

Afternoon flight departure from San Francisco to Lisbon, Portugal.

Upon an afternoon arrival in Lisbon, board our motor-coach and transfer to Fatima for check-in at our hotel for four nights.  Enjoy an orientation tour of the Fatima Sanctuary ~ the holy grounds where five Marian apparitions took place from May to October of 1917 to three shepherd children. See the Apparition Chapel and the Basilica wherein are the tombs of the children.

Visit the Aljustrel hamlet to see the homes of the Fatima children. Take in the un-spoiled beauty of the fields of olive trees, passing by Valinhos (Aug. 1917 apparition) and Loca Cabeco (Angelic apparitions of 1916).  A Rosary & candlelight procession opens the Oct. 13, 1917 anniversary celebration.

 109 years ago today, the Blessed Virgin Mother appeared for the final time and performed a miracle of the sun that was witnessed by over 70,000. Join with pilgrims worldwide at the sanctuary for the anniversary events to include a Blessing of the Sick and a Marian procession as the faithful wave white handkerchiefs in a farewell Adieu to Mary turning the Sanctuary into a sea of white. 

First stop at the 14th-century Gothic Monastery of Batalha, built to thank the Blessed Virgin for protection in a battle that insured Portugal’s freedom.  Mid-day arrival in the fishing resort of Nazare. Enjoy an incredible view of the Atlantic from one of the highest sea cliffs in Europe. Visit a 14th-century shrine built to house a revered image of Mary nursing the Child Jesus. Return to Fatima for overnight. 

 Depart north for the ancient city of Braga, once the ecclesiastical capital of Portugal. Early afternoon arrival and check-in at our hotel (for 2 nights) near the mountaintop Bom Jesus shrine and see the famous 15th-century baroque embellished with fountains and statues depicting virtues; a catechism in stone. 

Just across the border in Galicia, Spain, where Lucia, the oldest of the Fatima seers, lived as a Dorothean postulant and later Sister (from 1925 to 1929), and received more heavenly visions fulfilling the Fatima promises, specifically asking for the First Saturday devotion. Return to Braga. 

 Today travel south to Lisbon, first stopping in the village of Balazar to visit the home of Blessed Alexandrina Maria de Costa, one of the greatest mystics of modern times, who lived on the Blessed Sacrament alone for thirteen years. She has been called the Fourth Seer of Fatima for her spiritual connection to the Fatima children. Further south, stop in Santarem – sight of a 13th-century Eucharistic Miracle. Arrive in Lisbon to check-into our hotel for two nights.

One of Europe’s oldest capitols. Due to its strategic location at the tip of south-western Europe, close to the African continent, Lisbon was the hub of the 15th-century Age of Explorations. Visit the church built over the birth-place of St. Anthony (1195) and the adjacent Se Cathedral. Visit the Poor Clares convent, a former orphanage that little Jacinta of Fatima stayed at before her death in a Lisbon hospital. Drive along the scenic River Tagus, passing by the historical monuments. 

Morning transfer to Lisbon Airport for our return flight to San Francisco (or your home city).