Lúcia Santos

Lúcia de Jesus dos Santos ( born March 22, 1907 in Aljustrel, now part of Fátima (Portugal ), † 13 February 2005 in Coimbra ) was a Portuguese Nun. You should have been as a child witnesses a Marian apparition in Fatima.

Life

Together with her cousin Jacinta Marto and their cousin Francisco Marto she had from May 13 to October 13, 1917 at the age of ten years Marian apparitions in the Cova da Iria ( German: well of Iria ) at Fatima (Portugal).

Francisco Marto died in 1919 at the Spanish flu, Jacinta 1920. Both were on 13 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II beatified in Fatima.

Lúcia occurred on May 17, 1921 in the College of Dorothee gutters of Vilar at Porto, where she learned to read and write. On 2 October 1926 she was admitted in the convent of Tuy (Spain). She received the name Sister Maria das Dores ( German: Mary of the Sorrows ), put on 3 October 1928, the time and on 3 October 1934, the final profession from. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War she was sent in 1936 in the Colégio do Sardão in Porto ( Portugal) in 1946 and returned back to the Convent of Tuy. With the permission of Pope Pius XII. was allowed to transgress on 25 March 1948 in the Carmel of St. Teresa in Coimbra. On 13 May 1948 it was there dressed as a Carmelite nun and put on 31 May 1949, the solemn profession. In the garb she received the religious name of Sister Maria Lucia of the Immaculate Heart.

In 1941, she wrote down the so-called first and second secret, 1944, the Third Secret of Fátima. The transcript contains the messages that should have been transmitted to the children of the Mother of God.

The day of her funeral, February 15, 2005, was declared a National day of mourning in Portugal.

19 February 2006, Sister Lúcia dos Santos of Coimbra was transferred to Fatima to find there in the Basilica of " Our Lady of Fatima " next to Jacinta and Francisco their final resting place. At its third anniversary of the death in 2008 issued Pope Benedict XVI. his consent for the initiation of the process of beatification of Sister Lucia, continuing, as already in the process of Pope John Paul II, a settlement of the canon law repealed, after which a beatification process may be opened earlier than five years after the death of a person.