Sister Lúcia
Portuguese nun, one of the three children who have witnessed Marian apparitions in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917
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PortugalThe last living witness to what millions believe was the Virgin Mary appearing to three Portuguese children in 1917. For 87 years after her cousins died, she carried alone the memory of six visions that drew tens of thousands to a field and anchored one of Catholicism's most visited pilgrimage sites.
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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 trans…
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