RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Sister Lúcia

1907 - 2005

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Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, OCD, (28 March 1907 – 13 February 2005) also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Discalced Carmelite nun from Portugal. Sister Lúcia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto claimed to have witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917. Her beatification process was opened in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sister Lúcia is the 606th most popular religious figure (up from 625th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 51st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Portuguese Religious Figure.

Sister lúcia is most famous for being one of the three seers of Fátima, Portugal.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Sister Lúcia ranks 606 out of 3,187Before her are Laban, Ansgar, Beatrice Portinari, Kevin Farrell, Camillus de Lellis, and Rashi. After her are Bruno of Cologne, Nichiren, Pancras of Rome, Mus‘ab ibn 'Umair, Saint Giles, and Eli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Sister Lúcia ranks 28Before her are Yakov Dzhugashvili, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Yang Shangkun, Hideki Yukawa, Daniel Bovet, and Robert A. Heinlein. After her are François Duvalier, Lin Biao, Fred Zinnemann, Horst Wessel, John Bowlby, and U Nu. Among people deceased in 2005, Sister Lúcia ranks 20Before her are Rinus Michels, Rafic Hariri, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Omar Sívori, Zhao Ziyang, and Saul Bellow. After her are Kenzō Tange, Anne Bancroft, Jack Kilby, Joseph Rotblat, Ernst Mayr, and Zdzisław Beksiński.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Sister Lúcia ranks 50 out of 633Before her are Sancho I of Portugal (1154), Miguel I of Portugal (1802), Luís I of Portugal (1838), Marcelo Caetano (1906), Peter III of Portugal (1717), and Constance of Aragon (1179). After her are Ferdinand I of Portugal (1345), Afonso II of Portugal (1185), Pedro V of Portugal (1837), António Costa (1961), Denis of Portugal (1261), and John V of Portugal (1689).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Portugal

Among religious figures born in Portugal, Sister Lúcia ranks 3Before her are Anthony of Padua (1195), and Pope John XXI (1215). After her are John of God (1495), José Saraiva Martins (1932), Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1938), Cristóvão Ferreira (1580), John de Britto (1647), Beatrice of Silva (1424), Pelagio Galvani (1165), António de Andrade (1580), and José Policarpo (1936).