People from 35 different countries gathered at the Marian shrine Oct. 12.
A crowd of more than 180,000 pilgrims packed the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal to pray for peace in the Holy Land and Ukraine and “for all the places where peace is lacking.”
The shrine’s website reported that on Oct. 12, on the eve of the commemoration of the “Miracle of the Sun,” which took place on Oct. 13, 1917, the candlelight event was presided by Cardinal Américo Aguiar, the bishop-elect of Setúbal and president of the organizing committee for World Youth Day (WYD) 2023, held in August in Lisbon. …