Over 270,000 pilgrims gather in Fátima shrine after Pope Leo’s election

They came from all over the world to visit one of Catholicism’s most famous shrines. 

Over 270,000 pilgrims gathered at the sanctuary of Fátima in Portugal on Monday, to celebrate the first reported apparition of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children on 13 May 1917. 

The Catholic Church believes the Virgin Mary visited the children six times and divulged the Three Secrets of Fátima, a series of prophecies, to them.

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