Visiting Fatima

[Isca]

Hi everyone

My husband and I are fortunate to be going on a very nice cruise over Christmas and New Year, and we have the opportunity via one of the organised trips to spend three or four hours at The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, which we have booked. My husband isn’t Catholic nor converting to Catholicism, but he likes visiting holy sites and it was he who suggested we do the trip rather than going around Lisbon, which was brilliant of him!

I’d be grateful if other posters who have visited Fatima could let me know the best way to spend our time there. My husband can’t walk very far, but he’ll be happy to sit and wait for me if there’s something important to visit that takes a bit of effort to get to. I’m reasonably fit for a middle-aged woman and can put my best foot forward!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Edward_Henry]

That is not very much time. You could contact Mr. Armando Mendes, owner of the
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Solar De Marta Hotel and an amazingly reliable Catholic. His hotel is a small family owned hotel with a Eucharistic chapel, and it is only about a *block and a half *from the Shrine.
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Address:
Rua Francisco Marto, 74-76
Fatima, 2495-448
Portugal

He could help you and advise you how you could get the most out of your four hours and maybe even schedule you a motorized personal tour that might help you get the most out of your limited time. If he wishes, your husband could even wait for you in their comfortable lobby. I have stayed there many times and I could not recommend it enough. Good Luck!

To Jesus through Mary

 

[Isca]

Many thanks Edward Henry, for that very useful advice. I’ll ask my husband if he’d like to do a tour by car - it really would be the best idea for him, as I don’t want him to miss out on seeing wonderful things.

Thanks again.