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Portugal presents evidence for Fatima nun's beatification
Source: Associated Press
Portugal presents evidence for Fatima nun's beatification
Feb. 13, 2017 1:24 PM EST
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Catholic Church officials in Portugal said Monday they have assembled more than 15,000 pages of testimony and documentation to support the proposed beatification of Sister Lucia, one of three shepherd children who said the Virgin Mary appeared to them in the town of Fatima 100 years ago.
The officials said the case for Sister Lucia's beatification — the first step toward canonization as a saint — will be sent to the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in line with church procedure.
The documentation was presented at a church ceremony in the convent in Coimbra, 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Lisbon, where Sister Lucia lived from 1948 until her death at age 97 in 2005.
Her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, who also said they witnessed the apparitions, died at ages 9 and 11 of pneumonia. They were beatified in 2000.
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Feb. 13, 2017 1:24 PM EST
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Catholic Church officials in Portugal said Monday they have assembled more than 15,000 pages of testimony and documentation to support the proposed beatification of Sister Lucia, one of three shepherd children who said the Virgin Mary appeared to them in the town of Fatima 100 years ago.
The officials said the case for Sister Lucia's beatification — the first step toward canonization as a saint — will be sent to the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in line with church procedure.
The documentation was presented at a church ceremony in the convent in Coimbra, 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Lisbon, where Sister Lucia lived from 1948 until her death at age 97 in 2005.
Her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, who also said they witnessed the apparitions, died at ages 9 and 11 of pneumonia. They were beatified in 2000.
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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fd335a72f2c44c90b19b9da05a221af4/portugal-presents-evidence-fatima-nuns-beatification
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