The start of Mass for the July 13 pilgrimage to Fatima will be marked by the reading of a decree proclaiming the “heroic virtues” of Sister Lucia, the promulgation of which was authorized by Pope Francis on June 22.
The Sanctuary of Fatima announced this Thursday that “the Bishop of Coimbra, Virgilio Antunes, will for the first time publicly read” on this occasion a decree, the promulgation of which “opens the way for the beatification of Sister Lucia de Jesús y do Corazán Imaculado, the eldest of the three seers of Fatima and a central figure in the knowledge and dissemination The message addressed to mankind by Our Lady in the Apparitions in Cova da Iria in 1917 is now without a miracle.
“In October 2022, the process of beatification and canonization of the nun received an important development with the delivery of a document on heroic virtues to the Vatican,” adds information from the Sanctuary of Fatima.
On June 22, Pope Francis approved the publication of a decree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of the seer Fatima Lucia after an audience granted by the pontiff to the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Sala said. Seal of the Vatican.
Sister Lucia, the eldest of the three seers of Fatima, is considered by those in charge of the sanctuary of Cova da Iria “the central figure in the knowledge and dissemination of the Message addressed to mankind by Our Lady of the Apparitions” in 1917. .
Lucia de Jesus was born on March 28, 1907 in Fatima. After the death of her cousins, Saints Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Lucia entered the Institute of the Sisters of Santa Dorothea in 1925, where she remained until 1948.
Her journey as a nun Dorothea mainly took place in Spain, where she had two apparitions that complete the cycle of the message of Fatima, with requests for the Consecration of the first Saturdays (1925), in Pontevedra and consecration. Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1929), in Tuya. “Also at this time, by order of the Bishop of Leiria, he writes his first memoirs, thus initiating one of the means by which he will spread the message of Fatima: his written work,” according to his biographical notes.
He entered the Carmelo de Santa Teresa in Coimbra on March 25, 1948, where he remained until his death on February 13, 2005.
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Source: CM Jornal
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