Brazil Marks May 13 With Fátima Masses, Processions and Pilgrimages

Overview

• Parishes and sanctuaries across Brazil, which marked the feast on Wednesday, drew thousands for daylong masses, rosaries and candlelit processions, with Rio’s Recreio shrine expecting more than 20,000 devotees.
• Fortaleza deployed 150 municipal traffic agents and temporarily rerouted 17 bus lines around the Fátima church, with rolling street closures and an evening outdoor mass planned after the procession.
• Crato hosted its first May 13 program at the new 54‑meter statue of Our Lady of Fátima, where the shrine scheduled masses from dawn to night and expected about 15,000 visitors.
• Manaus planned masses at 6 a.m., 9 a.m. and noon, a consecration of more than 200 faithful in the first celebration, and a nighttime Procissão Luminosa followed by mass.
• During Tuesday’s candlelight procession in Belém, a trio elétrico hit a high‑voltage wire and performers waited on the truck for the power company to secure the scene.