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Holy apparitions and pilgrimage sites

Holy apparitions and pilgrimage sites

Why people believe they have seen the Virgin Mary

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Tony McMahon
Mar 19, 2021
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In the summer of 2019, I visited Fatima in Portugal. This was the place where, in the year 1917, three peasant children claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary. One of many apparitions over the centuries that have turned innocuous places into globally revered pilgrimage sites. Millions still make a beeline to Fatima, Lourdes and Guadalupe in the hope of ge…

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