One of the world's most reknowned Catholic pilgrimage sites, about an hour and a half north of Lisbon, dates back to the construction a chapel in 1919 dedicated to the Virgin Mary after three local children reported reported that she had repeatedly appeared to them. A basilica was built over the course of the next decades, consecrated in 1953, and ever since, it has been visited by millions of the faithful each year - especially on May 13 and October 13, two of the most significant apparition dates. Today the basilica, chapels, sacred oak tree, and a huge prayer hall remain as testament to faith and religious mysticism.
Read more in Tripatini contributor Manmohan Singh´s post 13 of the World´s Most Spiritual and Sacred Places.
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