The diocese of Coimbra has concluded its phase of the Cause of Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.
Bishop Virgilio Antunes of Coimbra formally closed the local phase of investigation into her life and holiness last week in the Carmelite convent of St Teresa in Coimbra, where she lived until her death in 2005 at the age of 97.
The ceremony included the sealing of 15,000 pages in 50 volumes of evidence and witness testimonies detailing the life of Sister Lucia. The documents will be sent to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
