Lúcia dos Santos

Maria Lúcia Rosa dos Santos – "Sister Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart", better known as Sister Lúcia of Jesus – (March 22, 1907 – February 13, 2005) was a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun. Born Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, at the age of ten she claimed to have witnessed visions and to have been spoken to by the Virgin Mary, in Cova da Iria, near the village of Aljustrel, about a mile from Fátima, Portugal. Her two cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto also witnessed the visions but only Lúcia was able to converse directly with her. Among the messages Lúcia supposedly relayed from the Virgin were the Three Secrets of Fatima. The Catholic Church approved the visions in the 1930s, and today the children's experience is known to millions as Fátima.

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The Fatima Center offers a detailed analysis of the Fatima event

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