Sister Lucia would be 110 years old today

Sister Lucia would be 110 years old today

Ephemeris is reminded today in the Shrine

The God´s Servant Sister Lucia de Jesus would be 110 years old today, the ephemeris will be reminded in the celebrations this Tuesday in the Shrine of Fatima.

Sister Lucia, as she became known, was born on March 28th, 1907, ten years before the first Apparition of Our Lady to the Three Little Shepherds, in Cova da Iria.

From that 13th of May on, the life of Lucia end her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto was completely transformed: not only because they welcomed Our Lady´s requests, praying the rosary daily, making sacrifices, some painful, for the sinners and appearing during six months, on the 13th, in that place, but also and mainly because they started to be interrogated constantly about what they saw and accused of lying and inventing the events.

Received in the Asilo of Vilar, in Porto, after de last Apparitions (occurred on the 13th of October, 1917), by the advice of the bishop of Leiria, D. Jose Alves Correia da Silva, Lucia de Jesus starts a life, withdrawn from the world, which will lead her to the postulancy of the Dorothean Sisters, in Spain, at the age of 15, and later, to the enclosure, in the Carmel of Saint Teresa, in Coimbra, where she remained since the 17th of May, 1946 until her death, on the 13th of February, 2005.

Her remains were transferred to the Basilica of Our Lady of The Rosary of Fatima on the 19th of February, 2006, resting next to her cousin Jacinta.

Beatification Process brought forward by Benedict XVI

God´s Servant is the title given to people who are under a beatification process, as it happens with Sister Lucia.

By Pope´s Benedict XVI decision, the canonical waiting period of five years to the opening of the canonization process was dismissed. The diocesan phase of the process was started by Monsignor Albino Anacleto, bishop of Coimbra, on the 30th of April, 2008, and closured on the 13th of February of the same year, moving on to Rome, where it will be analysed by the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints.