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The prayer Our Lady asked for at the Cova da Iria — with each day's mysteries, the Chapel of the Apparitions live, the whole message of Fátima and the places where it all happened. On iPhone and Apple Watch.
Chapel of the Apparitions
The official cameras of the Shrine of Fátima broadcast the Rosary every day from the Cova da Iria — the very place where, in 1917, Our Lady appeared six times to the three shepherd children.
1916 · 1917
A simple, urgent call — to pray, to convert, to trust in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It all began with an Angel, a year before Our Lady came down to the Cova da Iria.
Before Our Lady, the Angel of Portugal appeared three times to the shepherd children — at the Loca do Cabeço and at the well behind Lúcia's home in Aljustrel — to prepare them. He taught them two prayers and gave them Holy Communion.
"Pray the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war." She asks them to return for six months in a row, on the 13th.
"My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."
She entrusts the secret in three parts and promises the great miracle of October. She teaches the Fátima Prayer.
Delayed because the children had been detained on the 13th by the mayor of Ourém: "Pray, pray a great deal and make sacrifices for sinners."
"Continue to pray the Rosary to obtain the end of the war."
She asks for a chapel to be built. And the Miracle of the Sun takes place, seen by 50,000 to 70,000 people — reported even by the secular press.
Under the rain, the crowd saw the sun "dance" in the sky and plunge toward the earth. When it stopped, their soaked clothes were dry. It was the public confirmation Our Lady had promised, so that all would believe.
The Chapel of the Apparitions was raised in 1919 over the holm oak where she appeared — fulfilling the request of 13 October.
The secret · 13 July 1917
"A great sea of fire" — and the call to conversion so that souls may not be lost.
Devotion to the Heart of Mary, the consecration of Russia and the first Saturdays. "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph."
The Holy Father crosses a city in ruins. John Paul II linked it to the assassination attempt of 13 May 1981.
The three shepherd children
Three children from Aljustrel to whom Heaven entrusted a message for the whole world. Francisco and Jacinta were canonised at Fátima on 13 May 2017 — the first non-martyr children raised to the altars.
1907–2005. The only one who heard Our Lady. A Dorothean and later a Carmelite in Coimbra, she wrote the Memoirs that preserve the message. Venerable since 2023; she rests in the Basilica of the Rosary.
Cova da Iria, 1917
1908–1919. The contemplative — he saw but did not hear; he longed to "console the hidden Jesus" by the tabernacle. He died aged 10, of the great flu.
Canonised in 2017
1910–1920. The youngest. She offered sacrifices for the conversion of sinners and for the Holy Father. She died alone in Lisbon, aged 9, just as she had been told.
Canonised in 2017Now a religious, Lúcia received from Our Lady the promise of assistance at the hour of death, with the graces needed for salvation, to whoever fulfils four conditions with a reparative intention on five first Saturdays in a row:
Where it all happened
The message has an address. Around the Cova da Iria, the fields, houses and hills where the shepherd children lived and prayed still stand open to those who wish to walk in their footsteps.
The small village where the three shepherds were born. You can visit Francisco and Jacinta's house and Lúcia's — now a house-museum — preserving rural life at the dawn of the 20th century.
At the well behind Lúcia's house in Aljustrel, the Angel appeared a second time, in the summer of 1916: "What are you doing? Pray, pray a great deal."
A rocky slope among olive trees where the Angel appeared the first and third times, giving the three Holy Communion. A sculptural group recalls the scene.
Since the children had been detained on the 13th, Our Lady appeared here on 19 August 1917. A monument marks the spot, on the shepherds' path.
An open-air path of prayer follows the children's steps up to Valinhos, with fourteen chapels — the stations of the Passion — and a fifteenth evoking the Resurrection. The chapels and the Hungarian Calvary, with its chapel of Saint Stephen of Hungary, were a gift from Hungarian Catholics exiled in the West after the Soviet invasion of their country.
The parish church of Fátima, dedicated to Our Lady of Delights, is where Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta were baptised and took their first steps in the faith. The baptismal font where the three became Christians is still there. A parish since 1568, it was enlarged to three naves in 1915 and renovated in 2000, the year of Francisco and Jacinta's beatification.
The Chapel of the Apparitions (1919) marks the exact spot of the holm oak; it has no doors, and the crown of the statue holds the bullet from the 1981 attempt. The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary houses the tombs of the three shepherds. And the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity (2007), one of the largest churches in the world, welcomes the great pilgrimages.
Long before 1917, tradition tells that the Virgin appeared at the place of Ortiga to a shepherd girl mute from birth — who regained her speech — asking her for a little lamb. The title was born of the nettles (urtigas) that covered the site. The first chapel dates from 1758 and it is held to be the oldest Marian shrine in the region: a devotion that was already preparing the heart of Fátima.
The prayers of Fátima
The prayers the Angel and Our Lady taught — the same ones the app helps you pray, bead by bead.
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell; lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy.
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ… and through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.
O Jesus, it is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
From Fátima to the world
✦ Work in progress · open to contributionsFrom a small hollow in the heart of Portugal, the message spread across all five continents. There are thousands of parishes, chapels, schools and homes bearing the name of Our Lady of Fátima — and her Pilgrim Statue has travelled the whole world, carrying the same request: pray for peace.
Is there a Fátima parish, chapel or town near you? Send it to appear on the map ↗ — this map grows with everyone's contributions.
Fátima seen from outside
✦ Work in progress · open to contributionsYou don't have to believe to be moved. Over a century, sceptical journalists, Popes and witnesses from around the world have left their view of what happened at the Cova da Iria.
"It resembled a plate of dull silver, and it was possible to look at it without the slightest discomfort — it did not burn, it did not blind."
Avelino de Almeida
Reporter for O Século — the largest anticlerical daily of the day — sent to debunk the miracle. 15 October 1917.
"It was a mother's hand that guided the bullet's path."
Saint John Paul II
On the assassination attempt of 13 May 1981 — the same day as the first apparition. The bullet is now set in the crown of the statue in the Chapel. (13 May 1994)
"A heart open to God is more powerful than guns and weapons of every kind."
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger · Benedict XVI
Theological commentary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on revealing the third part of the secret. Year 2000.
Has Fátima touched you? Share your testimony, or a line from someone you admire.
Planning your pilgrimage
In the heart of Portugal, an hour and a half from Lisbon. Easy to reach — and surrounded by treasures worth the journey.
By car: the A1 motorway, exit 8 (Fátima), well signposted. From Lisbon it is about 125 km (1h30); from Porto, about 195 km (2h). There is ample free parking beside the Shrine.
By coach: daily connections from across the country; the terminal is less than 1 km from the grounds, a short walk away.
Nearby
The historic cradle of the county, with the counts' palace and walls. Nearby, the Natural Monument of the Dinosaur Footprints.
A masterpiece of Manueline Gothic, pantheon of the House of Avis and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Galleries of stalactites and lakes in the heart of the Aire and Candeeiros mountains, among the finest in Portugal.
Karst landscapes, trails, springs and dinosaur footprints — nature alongside devotion.
The grand Cistercian church and the tombs of King Pedro and Inês de Castro.
The home of the Templars, a sublime blend of Romanesque, Gothic, Manueline and Renaissance.
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A hand-drawn rosary follows every prayer, with a gentle haptic on each bead and the screen always on. You can pray with your eyes closed.
Each mystery illustrated by Fra Angelico, Caravaggio, Raphael, Velázquez, El Greco, Leonardo — with reflections from Scripture.
The story of Fátima in illustrated scenes, from the shepherds to the Miracle of the Sun.
The day's mysteries on the screen and the prayer bead by bead — advance with a tap or by turning the Digital Crown, with a discreet haptic on each bead. A complication on the watch face keeps the Rosary a tap away.
"Pray the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world."
Our Lady to the shepherd children · Cova da Iria · 13 May 1917