<p class="title_brown"><strong>Large Holm-Oak</strong></p>

<p class="subtitle_brown">Prayer Area</p>

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The Large Holm-Oak, so nominated in many primitive documents referring to the Apparitions of Fatima, is a tree with more than one hundred years old and it is the only one which survived among the others which existed in this place. It was not on it that Our Lady appeared, but early on it was connected to the apparitions. In fact, and as Lucia tells in her <em>Memories</em>, it was when passing the holm-oak that the three little shepherds saw for the second time the lightning previous to the May 13th apparition. In the following months, it was in its shadow that the seers prayed the rosary with the people who accompanied them, preparing themselves to receive the visit of Our Lady.<br />
The General Direction of Forest Resources of Portugal classified it, in January 2007, as a &ldquo;public interest&rdquo; specimen, for its traditional association to the apparitions.</p>
