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Sister Lúcia
Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, OCD, (28 March 1907 – 13 February 2005) also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Discalced Carmelite nun from Portugal. Sister Lúcia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto claimed to have witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917. Her beatification process was opened in 2017.
Lúcia was the youngest child of António dos Santos and Maria Rosa Ferreira (1869–1942), both from Aljustrel, who married on 19 November 1890. Although peasants, the Santos family was not poor, owning land "in the direction of Montelo, Ortiga, Fátima, Valinhos, Cabeço, Charneca, and Cova da Iria."
Even though Lúcia's birthday is registered as 22 March 1907, her actual date of birth is 28 March. At the time of her birth, it was required that parents bring their children for baptism on the eighth day after birth or face a fine, and, because 30 March was a more convenient day, the 22nd was chosen as her birthday.
Lúcia's father António, by her report, was a hardworking and generous man who introduced her to Catholicism. Contrary to popular reports, he believed the children when they said they had seen Mary. Lúcia said that her father was not a particularly heavy drinker, but liked to socialize in the tavern. Because of a controversy with the local parish priest, whom he wished to avoid, António went to church in a nearby town.
Maria Rosa was literate, although she never taught her children to read. She had a taste for religious literature and storytelling. She regularly gave catechism lessons to her and the neighbour's children. According to her mother, Lúcia repeated everything that she heard "like a parrot."
De Marchi described her features in the following manner: "She was not a pretty child. The only attractions of her face—which was not on the whole repellent—were her two great black eyes which gazed out from under thick eyebrows. Her hair, thick and dark, was parted in the center over her shoulders. Her nose was rather flat, her lips thick and her mouth large."
Lúcia was a fabulous storyteller. She composed sacred and secular songs with catchy tunes and lyrics. She also wrote a poem about Jacinta which appears in her memoirs.
Lúcia received First Communion at six years of age, four years before the usual age. Initially, the parish priest refused to give her Communion so early. But Father Cruz, a Jesuit missionary visiting from Lisbon, interviewed Lúcia after finding her in tears that day and concluded that "she understands what she's doing better than many of the others." After her First Confession she prayed before the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary and claimed to have seen the statue smile at her. It left a deep impact on her: "I lost the taste and attraction for the things of the world, and only felt at home in some solitary place where, all alone, I could recall the delights of my First Communion."
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Sister Lúcia
Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, OCD, (28 March 1907 – 13 February 2005) also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Discalced Carmelite nun from Portugal. Sister Lúcia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto claimed to have witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917. Her beatification process was opened in 2017.
Lúcia was the youngest child of António dos Santos and Maria Rosa Ferreira (1869–1942), both from Aljustrel, who married on 19 November 1890. Although peasants, the Santos family was not poor, owning land "in the direction of Montelo, Ortiga, Fátima, Valinhos, Cabeço, Charneca, and Cova da Iria."
Even though Lúcia's birthday is registered as 22 March 1907, her actual date of birth is 28 March. At the time of her birth, it was required that parents bring their children for baptism on the eighth day after birth or face a fine, and, because 30 March was a more convenient day, the 22nd was chosen as her birthday.
Lúcia's father António, by her report, was a hardworking and generous man who introduced her to Catholicism. Contrary to popular reports, he believed the children when they said they had seen Mary. Lúcia said that her father was not a particularly heavy drinker, but liked to socialize in the tavern. Because of a controversy with the local parish priest, whom he wished to avoid, António went to church in a nearby town.
Maria Rosa was literate, although she never taught her children to read. She had a taste for religious literature and storytelling. She regularly gave catechism lessons to her and the neighbour's children. According to her mother, Lúcia repeated everything that she heard "like a parrot."
De Marchi described her features in the following manner: "She was not a pretty child. The only attractions of her face—which was not on the whole repellent—were her two great black eyes which gazed out from under thick eyebrows. Her hair, thick and dark, was parted in the center over her shoulders. Her nose was rather flat, her lips thick and her mouth large."
Lúcia was a fabulous storyteller. She composed sacred and secular songs with catchy tunes and lyrics. She also wrote a poem about Jacinta which appears in her memoirs.
Lúcia received First Communion at six years of age, four years before the usual age. Initially, the parish priest refused to give her Communion so early. But Father Cruz, a Jesuit missionary visiting from Lisbon, interviewed Lúcia after finding her in tears that day and concluded that "she understands what she's doing better than many of the others." After her First Confession she prayed before the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary and claimed to have seen the statue smile at her. It left a deep impact on her: "I lost the taste and attraction for the things of the world, and only felt at home in some solitary place where, all alone, I could recall the delights of my First Communion."
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