THE MIRACULOUS

Portuguese mourn Fatima witness

Sister Lucia, who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in 1917, died on Sunday, aged 97. She was the last of three shepherd children who made the town of Fatima into a pilgrimage site, and the only one of the three who claimed to have heard clearly what the Virgin Mary said.
The Virgin Mary is said to have revealed prophecies of key 20th-Century events. The cousins were tending sheep when they saw the visions. Sister Lucia went on to write down what she had been told.
The first two parts of the prophecy were known for decades and interpreted as predicting the world wars. But the third prophecy was kept secret and sparked much speculation about its content until the Vatican revealed its interpretation of the vision.