Sister Lúcia

Venerable

Sister Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos

OCD
Sister Lúcia at the Discalced Carmelite convent of Coimbra, circa 1998
Born(1907-03-28)28 March 1907
Aljustrel, Fátima
Kingdom of Portugal
Died13 February 2005(2005-02-13) (aged 97)
Coimbra, Portugal

Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, OCD, (28 March 1907 – 13 February 2005) also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Discalced Carmelite nun from Portugal. Sister Lúcia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto claimed to have witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917. Her beatification process was opened in 2017.

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