The cause for beatification of Sister Lucia dos Santos, the eldest child to witness the Fatima apparitions, has taken a step forward. In a meeting at the Vatican, the postulators for Lucia’s cause ...

We would do well on Good Friday and Holy Saturday to consider what Sister Lúcia of Fatima has to say about fasting and sacrifice. She has a way of making palatable what some think unpalatable, so ...

Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, just had her cause for sainthood advanced by Pope Francis on June 22. Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the two other Fatima visionaries, were ...

LISBON, Portugal — Portugal planned a national day of mourning Tuesday for Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 ...

FATIMA, Portugal –– Fatima visionary Lucia dos Santos was a saintly woman – not because she saw visions of Mary, but because of her raw humanity, simplicity, and even her sense of humor, says the ...

Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who in 1917 claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of apparitions in Fatima, Portugal, has died, Portuguese media reported. She was 97. Sister ...

Tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims braved cold and rainy weather on Sunday to pay their final respects to the last of three shepherd children who said they had seen the Virgin Mary in Portugal in ...

John Paul II: she sustained him in trials and suffering. Perhaps the time leading to beatification will be reduced. For the people, Sr Lucia "is a saint". Coimbra (AsiaNews) At the funeral of the last ...

The niece of Fatima visionary Sr. Lucia dos Santos said her aunt was a normal person like everyone else, but shared some personal advice that her saintly relative used to give: to pray every single ...

Combination photos of Sister Lucia dos Santos as a girl and as a Carmelite nun. VATICAN—The cause for the beatification of Sister Lucia dos Santos, the eldest child to witness the Fatima apparitions, ...