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Sister Lucia was one of three shepherd children to be approached by the Holy Virgin in Fatima.

Sister Lúcia was present for a Marian apparition in Fátima, Portugal in 1917.

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By Kenya Sinclair (CALIFORNIA NETWORK)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
2/14/2017 (7 years ago)

Published in Living Faith

Keywords: Portugal, Fatima, nun, beatification, Sister Lucia

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - She grew to become a Portuguese Catholic Carmelite nun and wrote six memoirs during her lifetime.

She passed away February 13, 2005 at 97-years-old.


Since her death, Church officials in Portugal collected 15,000 pages of various testimonies and documentation supporting Sister Lúcia's beatification.

Officials accepted the documents and are expected to send them to the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried through the crowd May 12 at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal.

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried through the crowd May 12 at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal (CNS/Rafael Marchante/Reuters).


Virgilio Atunes, the Catholic Bishop of Coimbra, reported the documents took eight years to collect. Within the hefty stack of information there are 11,000 letters written by Sister Lúcia herself.

There are also 61 witness statements and other documents to prove she is deserving of beatification, the first step toward canonization.


Should the Vatican decide she did indeed live a virtuous life, Pope Francis will receive her case and will sign a decree proving she lived a life deserving of beatification.

Meanwhile, Pope Francis is scheduled to make a pilgrimage to Fátima May 12-13, marking the apparitions' centenary.

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