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The world’s most traveled religious artifact has her own boarding pass

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Mar 31, 2026
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Our Lady of Fatima catholic Virgin Mary religious statue (Immaculate/shutterstock.com)

The International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima is a work by Portuguese sculptor José Ferreira Thedim from 1947. This sculpture is no ordinary religious icon — it has traveled the globe on airplanes as a ticketed passenger, buckled into its own seat with …

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