GOD BLESS
May Sister Lucia Forever Rest In Heaven
Posted on 02/13/2005 2:27:18 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
LISBON (AFP) - Sister Lucia, the last survivor of the three shepherd children to whom the Virgin Mary is said to have made a series of apparitions in 1917, has died of old age, state television RTP reported. She was 97.
She had lived in virtual isolation since 1948 in an old convent in the central Portuguese city of Coimbra that houses the order of the Carmelita Sisters where she dedicated her life to prayer and meditation.
Named Lucia de Jesus dos Santos when she was born on March 22, 1907, in recent years she suffered from blindness and deafness.
She died at the convent, the station said citing a spokeswoman for the order.
Sister Lucia was just ten when she and her two cousins, Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta, said they saw the Virgin for the first time in a field near the town of Fatima on May 13, 1917.
Lucia, the only one of the three children who was able to hear what the Virgin said, wrote two memoirs about the series of apparitions which occured throughout 1917.
The apparitions made Fatima one of Catholicism's most revered sites and thousands of faithful flock to a shrine which has been built on the site where the apparitions are said to have taken place each year.
Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II attributes to Our Lady of Fatima his survival of an assassination attempt in 1981 and has since then visited the shrine several times.
Sister Lucia last spoke in public in May 2000 when the pope travelled to Fatima to beatify Francisco and Jacinta.
Virgin Mary Child Dies (Lucia of Fatima)
The Scotsman ^ | Feb 13, 2005 | unknown
Posted on 02/13/2005 6:46:33 PM EST by Cincinnatus
If you mean the author of "the Church 'subsists in' the Mystical Body of Christ" versus the correct equality, the Church IS the Mystical Body of Christ...
The answer is yes.
I have a hard time accepting apparitions as fact. Although, I watched a special on PAX concerning Fatima, and the thing that struck me the most is that, according to those supposedly in the know, the kids refused to recant their story under penalty of serious physical pain, torture, really, as I think they were threatened with being boiled in oil.
Don't know if that's fact, just reporting what was reported on that special.
It is likely that John Paul II never speculated any such thing, given that Medjugorje has not received approval from the Church, even after three investigative commissions.
Here's what Bishop Peric of Medjugorje said just last summer:
Fifthly, the "seers" who see visions on a daily basis and the endless apparitions themselves (33,333 to date, nor it there any risk of my being mistaken, for there is no end to the numbers or the "visions") are more in the nature of a religious show and a spectacle for the world than a true and faithful witness to the peace and unity of the Faith and love for the Church. Who can fail to see that these endlessly multiplying numbers should not be taken seriously? Shall we change our Catholic orthodoxy for fantastical superstition?
Most interesting link in Post 3. A good read.
I remember reading that the threat actually happened.
If it wasn't for FR, I wouldn't know this news, that Sister Lucia has died.
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Rest in the peace of Our Lord, Sr. Lucia.
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"John Paul II has privately speculated that the fulfillment of Fatima is now at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovina, where seers have claimed to have received secrets since just after the 1981 shooting.
It is likely that John Paul II never speculated any such thing, given that Medjugorje has not received approval from the Church, even after three investigative commissions.
Here's what Bishop Peric of Medjugorje said just last summer:
Fifthly, the "seers" who see visions on a daily basis and the endless apparitions themselves (33,333 to date, nor it there any risk of my being mistaken, for there is no end to the numbers or the "visions") are more in the nature of a religious show and a spectacle for the world than a true and faithful witness to the peace and unity of the Faith and love for the Church. Who can fail to see that these endlessly multiplying numbers should not be taken seriously? Shall we change our Catholic orthodoxy for fantastical superstition?"Good Morning I will write G-D is G-D"Who is like GOD!"I do not know why many persons atack Jana Pawla II please do know this he is very very important person what do you want my/mego Jana Pawla II "dead" please "think" G-D will help him Thank you
May she rest in everlasting happiness and peace. This is sad news.
God rest her soul and may she be in the presence of God.
Yes - they were threatened with boiling oil.
Also...thousands witnessed the miracle of the sun.
The vatican's site regarding Fatima...
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html
Thanks for that link.
It's interesting that they keep reducing the number of witnesses. I remember many years ago reading it was around 100 thousand. The New York times I believe did a story not too long ago and said it was around 70 thousand. I just read tonight that Reuters reported it around 50 thousand. I think I will go with the original story reported in the Portuguese newspaper back in 1917. They had it around 100 thousand. I am sure the Washington Post will report someday that it was 5 or ten whackos drunk on wine.
Why the nasty comment and the use of the diminutive?
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