Example sentences for: fátima

How can you use “fátima” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sitting astride the River Nabão, Tomar (34 km/21 miles east of Fátima) is one of Portugal’s most fascinating towns.

  • Pope John Paul II paid his third visit to the shrine of Fátima in 2000 and beatified (the final step before sainthood) the shepherd boy and girl who claimed to be visited by the Virgin Mary over a period of six months in 1913.

  • Yet even on an ordinary weekday, scattered believers, some kneeling in penitence, come to Fátima to pay homage to the Virgin Mary.

  • Set in bleak hill country about 135 km (84 miles) north of Lisbon, Fátima — once just a poor village — is one of the most important centers of pilgrimage in the Catholic world, along with Lourdes in France and Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

  • High on a hill above the village is an odd church — actually a clockless clock tower — standing over a small chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Fátima.


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