Following a successful summer pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in north-western Spain, the famous Sanctuary of Fátima in central Portugal is a fitting switch for a pilgrimage undertaken during Lent
There are two key questions that usually arise when you arrive at the Sanctuary of Fátima.
Are you going to go on your knees all the way along the 300-metre marble pathway—the Via Penitencial—to the Chapel of Apparitions that marks the spot where five of the Virgin Mary’s six apparitions occurred? Secondly, if you do, are you going to wear knee pads like some pilgrims choose to?
