Someone messed up. Big time!

When the town of Fatima was preparing to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin Mary to three children someone thought it would be a good idea to produce some maps for all of the visitors. A local company was hired to produce a map showing how to get to the holy Sanctuary of Fatima.

Unfortunately the back of the map was not blank. The reverse side had printed advertisements for sex toys and aphrodisiacs.

A shocked shrine spokesman has demanded the company withdraw its product, declaring: “The map makes the wrong use of the picture of the Virgin Mary.”

If you are a Roman Catholic and you’ve vowed to make the pilgrimage to Fatima in Portugal, famous for religious visions, but you can’t fulfill your promise you can now rent-a-pilgrim.

Pilgrim Gil will make the journey in your place for the low fee of 2,500 euros (1,671 pounds), and he’ll even send you a certificate stamped along the way to prove he walked your every step.

Carlos Gil, 42, is also a rent-a-pilgrim. He took up this practice four years ago when he suddenly “felt an urge to walk to Fatima” and said charging each client was simply a way to keep doing what he loves. Gil says “It is a romantic way for my clients to thank God for what they have, like buying a candle or a plaster statue of Fatima,”.

To guarantee to his clients that he made the trip on foot, Gil has a system of handing his customers a certificate after every journey with various stamps from places along the way.