- Title: Pope visits Fatima shrine in Portugal; skips key address
- Date: 5th August 2023
- Summary: OUR LADY OF FATIMA STATUE POPE PRAYING IN CHAPEL POPE RECITING PRAYER AND BLESSING CROWDS CROWD APPLAUDING PERSON HOLDING PORTRAIT OF POPE VARIOUS OF POPE IN WHEELCHAIR TOUCHING THE HANDS OF ILL PEOPLE FATIMA CHURCH EXTERIORS / CROWDS GATHERED OUTSIDE
- Embargoed: 19th August 2023 14:11
- Keywords: CATHOLIC CATHOLICISM FATIMA POPE POPE FRANCIS PORTUGAL PRAYER PRAYING ROSARY
- Location: FATIMA, PORTUGAL
- City: FATIMA, PORTUGAL
- Country: Portugal
- Topics: Europe,Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA003255105082023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Pope Francis visited the revered Catholic Shrine of Fatima in Portugal on Saturday (August 5), the site where the Church says the Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in 1917.
The 86-year-old pope skipped reading a speech that was on the program of his two-hour visit to the world-famous shrine north of Lisbon, and which was expected to have been the centerpiece of the day.
The omission did not appear to indicate that the pope was experiencing any health issues. He later greeted dozens of people individually as an aide slowly pushed his wheelchair through the crowd.
He stopped often to comfort the sick in the crowds as he made his way back to a helicopter transporting him to the next event on his five-day trip to Portugal.
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