Paperback: Sister Lúcia is the last surviving Fátima visionary, the other two being her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto.
In these "reminiscences", Sister Lucia shared moving insights into the lives of her cousins, who are now Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta Marto, their increasing love and sacrifices for God and neighbour, her own family experiences before and after the apparitions, the deaths of her beloved father and cousins, the Three Secrets, the Miracle of the Sun, the Angel of Peace and how the Little Shepherds corresponded heroically to the requests of Our Lady, and in them they point out to everyone, and in a special way to the children, a sure way to reach holiness.
Fátima In Lúcia's Own Words (2017, 21st edition) - the first of two volumes - is translated from the Portuguese by the Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary of the Monastery Pius XII, Fátima, Portugal.
About the author: Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, (Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum or OCD)(1907-2005), also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Portuguese Catholic Carmelite nun and one of the three children, including her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, who claimed to witness Marian apparitions in Fátima in 1917. On 13 February 2017, Sister Lúcia was accorded the title Servant of God, as the first major step toward her canonization.
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