NNA – Today, Pope Francis arrived at the Fatima Shrine in central Portugal, where he was received by about 200,000 people, before returning to Lisbon, where he will preside over the evening meeting of the World Youth Days, according to AFP.nbsp;
A helicopter of the Portuguese Air Force carried the 86-year-old pontiff, and first flew over the vast courtyard of the shrine in a red sky because of the smoke caused by a forest fire about a hundred kilometers from there.
About 200,000 believers gathered, according to local authorities, to receive the Pope in the courtyard of the shrine, where he will stay for two hours to recite the rosary with sick and disabled youths and six prisoners before he makes a speech.
The Pope took his private car, quot;Papamobilequot;, and entered the shrine courtyard that surrounds the small church in this place where the Virgin Mary appeared, according to the Catholic tradition, to three shepherd children in 1917.
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