Lúcia dos Santos

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Lucia Santos (center) at the age of ten with her cousin Jacinta Marto (7) and her cousin Francisco Marto (9)

Lúcia de Jesus dos Santos (born March 22, 1907 in Aljustrel, today part of Fátima in Portugal , † February 13, 2005 in Coimbra ) was a Portuguese religious sister and nun . As a child she is said to have witnessed an apparition of Mary in Fátima.

Life

Together with her cousin Jacinta Marto and her cousin Francisco Marto , she had six apparitions of Mary from May 13 to October 13, 1917 at the age of ten in the Cova da Iria near Fátima. Francisco Marto died in 1919 at the Spanish flu , Jacinta 1920. Both were on 13 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II. Fatima beatified and on May 13, 2017. Pope Francis in Fatima canonized .

Lúcia joined the college of the Dorothee Sisters of Vilar near Porto on May 17, 1921 , where she learned to read and write. On October 2nd, 1926, she was admitted to the Tuy Monastery ( Spain ). She received the religious name Maria das Dores (German: Mary of Pain ), made her temporary profession on October 3, 1928 and her perpetual profession on October 3, 1934 . After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , she was sent to the Colégio do Sardão near Porto (Portugal) in 1936 and returned to the Tuy Monastery in 1946. With the permission of Pope Pius XII. she was allowed to enter the Carmel of St. Theresa in Coimbra on March 25, 1948 . On May 13, 1948, she was dressed as a Carmelite and made solemn profession on May 31, 1949. When she was dressed, she was given the religious name Maria Lucia of the Immaculate Heart .

In 1941 she wrote the so-called first and second secret, and in 1944 the third secret of Fátima . The transcript contains the messages that the children said the Mother of God gave them.

According to Wegener, she had written two reports (80 pages in typescript) for the first time in 1936/1937 on behalf of the Bishop of Leiria , who was responsible for Fátima from 1920 , José Alves Correia da Silva (1852–1957), with memories about Jacinta being reproduced in the first report and in the second Lúcia also reported about himself. Four years later, the bishop commissioned her to write down her memoirs in greater detail. On August 31 and December 8, 1941, she then completed one report each (over 60 typewritten pages). In it, apparitions of an angel in 1916 and the “secrets of the second and third apparitions of the Blessed Mother” as well as some of Jacinta's visions were mentioned for the first time. According to Wegener, the Bishop of Leiria bought the area in the Cova da Iria as early as the spring of 1921 , where construction work on the “ Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary ” began in the autumn of the same year .

Tombs of Jacinta Marto and Lúcia dos Santos in the Antiga Basilica of Fátima

The day of Sr. Lucy's funeral, February 15, 2005, has been declared a national day of mourning in Portugal . On February 19, 2006, Sister Lúcia dos Santos was transferred from Coimbra to Fátima and buried in the Rosary Basilica next to Jacinta and Francisco. On the third anniversary of her death in 2008, Pope Benedict XVI. his consent to the initiation of the beatification process of Lúcia do Santos and thus suspended a regulation of canon law, according to which a beatification process may be opened at the earliest five years after the death of a person.

See also

literature

  • Maria Celina de Jesus Crucificado: Sister Lucia. The memory we have of her. Carmelio de Coimbra 2006, ISBN 972-8524-53-6 .
  • J. de Marchi: Fatima from the beginning . Fatima / Portugal in various translations and editions.
  • L. Gonzaga da Fonseca: Le meraviglie di Fátime. 10th edition, Rome 1943 (Lucia's reports were available to Gonzoga).
  • L. Gonzaga da Fonseca: Maria speaks to the world . 15th edition. Tyrolia, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich 1963.
  • H. Jongen: OL Vrouw van Fatima. Missionaries van God. Löwen 1944 (based mainly on L. Moresco: Madonna di Fátima and Gli occhi che videro la Madonna , as well as José Galamba de Oliviera: Jacinta ) - Moresco and Galamba have still viewed and used the reports of Lucia dos Santos immediately; see. Josef Wegener (1946), p. 3 f.
  • Gregor Kauling: Visions and the question of their authenticity. Fatima - Medjugorje - Marpingen . Oros, Altenberge 2001, ISBN 3-89375-200-5 .
  • Luís Kondor (ed.): Sister Lucia talks about Fatima. Memories of Sister Lucia . Postulação, Fatima 1977 (3rd edition, translation from Portuguese).
  • Maria Lúcia: The calls of the message of Fatima . Secretariado dos Pastorinhos, Fatima 2002 (translation from Portuguese), ISBN 972-8524-27-7 .
  • Visconde de Montelo: As grandes maravilhas de Fátima . Lisboa 1927 (Portuguese).
  • Georg Scharf: Fatima currently. Message and messenger . Schmitz, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-922054-04-8 .
  • Manuel Fernando Silva: Pastoress de Fátima . Lisbon, Paulinen 2003 (469 pages)
  • Josef Wegener: Fátima. Secrets, miracles and graces. Steyler mission bookshop , Kaldenkirchen 1946.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Wegener: Fátima. Secrets, miracles and graces. Steyler Missionsbuchhandlung , Kaldenkirchen 1946, pp. 3, 6 f., 26 and 55.
personal data
SURNAME Santos, Lucia dos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santos, Lúcia de Jesus dos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Carmelite
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Aljustrel
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2005
Place of death Coimbra