Monday, May 29, 2017

Aljustrel, Portugal -- Houses Where Fatima Children Lived with House Museum

Houses of the Three Fatima Children and House Museum (Aljustrel, Portugal)

Lucia’s House
The house where Lucia de Jesus, the youngest of seven children, was born and lived is located in Aljustrel, about 2 kilometers away from the Shrine of Fatima. The first interrogations of the seers took place in this house. In the backyard, one can still see the fig trees under the shade of which the three little shepherds played and where they hid when sought by pilgrims or curious.
 In 1981, Sister Lucia donated the house to the Shrine; it only took possession of it in 1986. The area surrounding the house was arranged and was built a new information office, inaugurated on August 13, 1994.

Lucia's House

Stone Bench


Wash Basin


Courtyard Outside House


Lucia's Parents' Bedroom 
(where Lucia was born)


Lucia's Bedroom (shared with sisters)


Lucia's Bedroom


 House Museum of Aljustrel
The House Museum of Aljustrel is located next to Lucia’s birth house, in that small village called Aljustrel, about 2 kilometers away from the Shrine of Fatima. This first permanent Museological Centre of the Shrine was inaugurated on August 19, 1992, and is located in the house once owned by Maria Rosa, baptism godmother of Lucia. It is divided in four sections which allow us to understand the daily life back to the period of time of the apparitions. This conception was produced by Joaquim Roque Abrantes, Manuel Serafim Pinto and Maria Palmira Carvalho, who have taken as a starting point to accomplish such a task the entire inventory gathered years before by Francisco Pereira de Oliveira.

















Jacinta and Francisco’s House

It was in this house, located at 2 kilometers away from the Shrine of Fatima, in the village of Aljustrel, that Blessed Francisco and Jacinta were born, the two youngest children of the family Marto. It was here that Our Lady appeared four times, three times to Jacinta and once to Jacinta and Francisco.

This house is 200 meters away from Lucia’s. It was acquired by the Shrine in November 1996, and later rebuilt.


Francisco and Jacinta's House


Francisco's Bedroom 
(where he died on April 4, 1919)


Jacinta's Bedroom






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