Good evening random folks. I'm in Fatima, Portugal. We stopped at a town with a historic church with a Eucharistic miracle, had Mass there and then went on to Fatima. In the garden of the historic church there was a beautiful bird of paradise plant blooming in the garden. I took a picture of it but it didn't come out very good. We toured the shrines and basilica of Fatima and tomorrow we'll have Mass here. This is a picture of the solid gold crown atop the shrine. It has 150 pounds of gold in it, all financed
through pilgrim donations. There are millions of pilgrims from all over the world that come here.
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