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This weekend, the Shrine of Fatima received thousands of people in the penultimate annual pilgrimage on the occasion of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima to the little shepherds. After a May 13 without pilgrims, the August pilgrimage was the first to welcome foreign pilgrims and, now in September, for the first time the sanctuary was forced to close the entrances for having reached the maximum capacity allowed.
Pilgrimage without pilgrims. The best images of the historic May 13 at the Sanctuary of Fatima
In the images transmitted live on YouTube, it can be seen that the pilgrims respect social distancing and that, even outdoors, they wear a mask, although some gatherings are seen, especially next to the trees that, during mass, shed some of shade in the enclosure. .
According to the information available on the website of the Sanctuary of Fatima there was a group of pilgrims from France, two from Italy, four from Spain, one from Poland and nine from Portugal. However, the spokeswoman for the Shrine did not add how many pilgrims there were in total, confirming only that “the parking lots north of the shrine and Park 11 and 12 were at their maximum capacity, but 13 and 14 are still far behind maximum. capacity “.
In statements to Rádio Renascença, the spokeswoman for the Carmo Rodeia sanctuary justifies the high adherence to the pilgrimage because it coincided with the weekend. Regarding compliance with safety regulations, he stressed that there was “a generalized use of the mask” and recalled the warnings that the sanctuary makes “throughout the celebration so that people can maintain social distance” and that they were audible in transmission through the Internet. Also at the end of the Mass, the pilgrims were asked to keep the places where they were, so that the exits of the enclosure could be organized to reduce the crossings between those present.
“We completely close the entrances through the tunnels and monitor, with the collaboration of GNR, all the other entrances,” the spokesperson explained to Renascença. According to Carmo Rodeia since August, the sanctuary “watches over the entrances” since “people have participated a lot in Sunday mass at 11 am”.
