<DIV><B><I>Nettie Taylor <jimmie@usit.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">From: "Nettie Taylor" <JIMMIE@USIT.NET><BR>To: <JIMMIE@USIT.NET><BR>Subject: FW: Sister Lucia dies!<BR>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:48:12 -0500<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><A href="http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4128739">http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4128739</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">Sister Lucia <SPAN class=SpellE>Marto</SPAN>, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions, has died, Portuguese media reported today. She was 97.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">Sister Lucia, a Roman Catholic nun, had been ill for the past three months and died at the Convent of <SPAN class=SpellE>Carmelitas</SPAN> in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN class=SpellE>Coimbra</SPAN></st1:City>, north of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:place></st1:City>, TSF radio reported, citing family sources.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes called Lucia’s <SPAN class=GramE>death ”</SPAN>very emotional news”.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">Lucia and two of her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco, said in<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">1907 that the Virgin Mary had been appearing to them once a month and predicting events, such as a world war, the fall of Russian communism, and the eventual persecution of Catholics and the Pope. The appearances took place on the 13th day of each month in Fatima, a town about 70 miles north of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">The first sighting was May 13, and the appearances took place for another five months, ending abruptly in October that year.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">Shortly after, both Jacinta and Francisco died of respiratory diseases. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">But Lucia became a nun and penned two memoirs while living in convents.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">The Catholic Church later built a shrine in <st1:place w:st="on">Fatima</st1:place>, which is visited each year by millions of people from around the world. More than 100,000 people from dozens of countries routinely attend the annual commemorations of the sightings.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">Pope John Paul II has visited three times since becoming pontiff, spending a few minutes with Lucia during a 1991 trip to the site. He has claimed the Virgin of Fatima saved his life after he was shot by a Turkish gunman in St Peter’s square in 1981. The May 13, 1981, attack coincided with the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, and John Paul credit’s the Virgin’s intercession for his survival.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">In 2000, he visited <st1:place w:st="on">Fatima</st1:place> to beatify Jacinta and Francisco.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face=Georgia size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia">A funeral was scheduled for Tuesday, TSF reported.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<DIV><EM><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000bf>Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.</FONT></EM></DIV></FONT></EM></FONT></DIV>
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