Angelus TV was a Portuguese
Catholic television channel founded in 2017 in the city of
Fátima, Portugal
Fátima () is a city in the municipality of Ourém and district of Santarém in the Central Region of Portugal, with 71.29 km2 of area and 13,212 inhabitants (2021). The homonymous civil parish encompasses several villages and localities o ...
.
''First Portuguese Catholic channel begins to transmit from Fatima this Thursday''
in Público Newspaper, 27 April 2017. The headquarters of this TV station were near the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima in the Cova da Iria
Cova da Iria is a quarter in the city and civil parish of Fátima, Santarém District, Portugal. Several of the reported Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima witnessed by the three small children-shepherds of Fátima in 1917 took place ...
, from which transmitted multiple daily celebrations.
It was distributed on cable television systems in Portugal
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and via internet television
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worldwide.
Due to the lack of financial support, this Catholic television channel ceased broadcasting from 31 May 2019.
Religious services and devotional programs
A partial listing of CatholicTV programs:
* ''Candles procession'' from the Sanctuary of Fátima
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* ''The Angelus'' from the St. Peter's Square
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in Vatican City
* ''Holy Mass'' from the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary
* ''Rosary'' from the Chapel of the Apparitions
The Chapel of the Apparitions ( pt, Capelinha das Aparições) is a small chapel located in Cova da Iria that was first constructed in 1919, and again in the early 1920s, to mark the exact location where three little shepherd children reported ...
of Our Lady of Fátima
Patron saints
Our Lady of Fátima was the patroness
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of Angelus TV. The shepherd visionaries of Our Lady, Jacinta and Francisco Marto were also considered as patron saints of this Portuguese Catholic channel.
See also
* Catholic television
Catholic television refers to television networks and programs based on the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Networks
Argentina
* Canal Orbe 21, HQ; Buenos Aires
Brazil
* Canção Nova, HQ; Cachoeira Paulista
* Rede Aparecida, HQ; Aparecid ...
* Catholic television channels
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* Catholic television networks
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* International religious television broadcasters
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* Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria–Fátima
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria–Fátima ( la, Dioecesis Leiriensis–Fatimensis) is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Patriarchate of Lisbon.
The main church of the episcopal see is the Cat ...
* Telepace
Telepace is an Italy-based broadcasting network, established in 1979, that carries Roman Catholic-themed programming. The programs include programming from Centro Televisivo Vaticano. Its headquarters are in Cerna, a frazione of Sant'Anna d'Alfae ...
* Vatican Media
Vatican Media, formerly Centro Televisivo Vaticano, is the Holy See's national broadcaster based in Vatican City which first aired in 1983.
History of the channel
Created in 1983 by Pope John Paul II, Vatican Media is, since November 1996, an in ...
References
External links
Angelus TV
– Official Website
Angelus TV online broadcast
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Catholic television networks
Catholic television channels
Television networks in Portugal
Television stations in Portugal
Television channels and stations established in 2017