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- Lucia de Jesus Santos was born on March 22, 1907 in Fátima, Portugal. She died on February 12, 2005 in Coimbra, Portugal.
- Along with her cousins, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto, they claim they first starting having visions of the Virgin Mary in a field in the Portuguese town of Fatima beginning on May 13, 1917. Lucia said she was the only one of the three who could hear what the Virgin said. At first government officials dispel the children's claims and tortured them to have them declared that they fabricated a lie. With growing hostality from the government, the children were released and Fatima became a pilgrimage site for many Christians. Lucia became a nun in her later years, after the deaths of her cousins, who died a few years after the apparitions of natual causes.
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