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  • "No More Secrets," Visionary Said in 2001 (Sr. Lucia Confirmed Russia Consecrated to Mary)

    02/15/2005 4:02:38 PM PST · by NYer · 120 replies · 2,511+ views
    Zenit News Agency ^ | February 14, 2005
    VATICAN CITY, FEB. 14, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Fatima secret has been totally revealed by the Vatican, and Russia has already been consecrated as Mary requested, confirmed Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart. The witness of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin of Fatima made this statement to the then secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, on Nov. 17, 2001, contradicting those who say that the Church still has secrets about the Marian apparition. The content of the interview held between the Vatican representative and Sister Lucia in the convent of...
  • Sister Lucia, last remaining witness of Fatima apparitions, dies at 97

    02/14/2005 9:12:17 PM PST · by rvoitier · 7 replies · 972+ views
    AFP ^ | 14 February 2005
    LISBON : 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 Sunday.
  • Third Secret of Fatima is not fully revealed.

    06/08/2002 5:31:08 PM PDT · by ex-Texan · 19 replies · 1,592+ views
    Sister Lucy writes letter to Pope saying his life is in danger and Third Secret of Fatima is not fully revealed...Inside the Vatican News Service October 26, 2001 ROME -- News has just emerged that Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last surviving Fatima visionary, several weeks ago sent Pope John Paul II a letter reportedly warning him that his life is in danger. According to Vatican sources, the letter, claiming that events spoken of in the "Third Secret" of Fatima had not yet occurred, was delivered sometime after September 11 to John Paul by the bishop emeritus of Fatima, Alberto...
  • SISTER LUCIA RIP

    02/13/2005 1:31:30 PM PST · by lindsey_123 · 254 replies · 9,935+ views
    I just heard...Sister Lucia passed away! I can't find anything online yet, however...
  • Last child who claimed to see "Virgin Mary" dies

    02/14/2005 2:03:24 PM PST · by missyme · 27 replies · 1,193+ views
    Religion News ^ | Feb 14th, 2005
    Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima, has died, Portuguese media reported. She was 97. Sister Lucia, a Roman Catholic nun, had been ill for the past three months and died Sunday at the Convent of Carmelitas in Coimbra, 190 kilometers (120 miles) north of Lisbon, TSF radio reported, citing family sources. Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes called Lucia's death "very emotional news." Lucia and two of her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco, said in 1917 that the Virgin Mary...
  • Sister Lucia, last remaining witness of Fatima apparitions, dies at 97

    02/13/2005 2:27:18 PM PST · by Unam Sanctam · 55 replies · 3,208+ views
    AFP ^ | Feb. 13, 2005
    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....
  • Mourning for Fatima seer (Portugal declares day of mourning)

    02/14/2005 12:42:05 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 42 replies · 1,953+ views
    Reuters ^ | Mon Feb 14, 2005
    LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal has declared Tuesday a day of mourning and politicians have cut back election campaigning to mark the death of Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary at Fatima. Dos Santos, who as a child in 1917 described visions which, decades later, the Catholic Church said foretold the attempt to kill Pope John Paul in 1981, died aged 97 on Sunday at her Carmelite convent in Coimbra, 150 km (95 miles) north of Lisbon. She is to be buried at the convent on Tuesday and her...
  • LAST OF CHILDREN WHO CLAIMED TO SEE VIRGIN MARY DIES AT 97

    02/14/2005 4:02:09 AM PST · by Robert Drobot · 37 replies · 1,708+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 13 Feb 2005 | Editors
    LISBON, PORTUGAL - Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima, has died, Portuguese media reported. She was 97. Sister Lucia, a Roman Catholic nun, had been ill for the past three months and died Sunday at the Convent of Carmelitas in Coimbra, 120 miles north of Lisbon, TSF radio reported, citing family sources. Lucia and two of her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco, said in 1917 that the Virgin Mary had been appearing to them once a month and predicting...
  • Virgin Mary Child Dies (Lucia of Fatima)

    02/13/2005 3:46:33 PM PST · by Cincinnatus · 177 replies · 7,380+ views
    The Scotsman ^ | Feb 13, 2005 | unknown
    Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions, has died, Portuguese media reported today. She was 97.