Why pilgrims come
A sacred place worth the journey.
Russia’s first Catholic sanctuary, established in 2017, centered on a Fatima statue personally blessed by St. John Paul II and now venerated as a patronal image for families.
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What makes this visit meaningful
Kaliningrad’s Fatima chapel became the first Catholic sanctuary formally established in Russia. Its heart is a statue blessed by St. John Paul II in 1997, later given a permanent home here and especially entrusted with prayer for families.
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Russia’s first Catholic sanctuary
Archbishop Paolo Pezzi granted the chapel sanctuary status in the Fatima centenary year of 2017.
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A statue blessed by St. John Paul II
Pray before the image the pope blessed in 1997 before its eventual arrival in Kaliningrad.
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Prayer for families
The local Church particularly invokes Our Lady of Fatima here as a patroness of family life.
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