Sister Lúcia

Born in 1907 to landowning peasants near Fátima, Lúcia dos Santos was ten when she and her younger cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto reported seeing the Virgin Mary six times that spring and summer. The encounters culminated in October 1917 with the Miracle of the Sun, witnessed by tens of thousands who had gathered in the field. Both cousins died in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, leaving Lúcia the sole keeper of what they'd seen. She became a religious sister in Spain in 1921, later a Discalced Carmelite nun in 1948, and spent decades writing memoirs and letters about Fátima. She also transcribed the Three Secrets of Fátima - prophecies the children said Mary had confided - the last of which the Vatican withheld until 2000. She died in 2005 at a Carmelite convent in Coimbra, her beatification process opening twelve years later.