Well, the official date they give for her death is 2005. So that's why she's in the list but someone slipped up and, looking in some other record, accidentally put down the real date?
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If the real date was posted by mistake in her case, perhaps the real date for other sisters was posted by mistake in their case(s) too.
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This old list of vital statistics could be compared to a new list, to see whether any of the dates for the other sisters are different. But where do you find the new list?
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There are a number of oddities about this old list. They have two sisters dying on the same day in two places (total of 4 nuns, 2 dates) and there are two times when several died in the same week: the last week of November, 2004 shows three sisters dying (#241, #242, #243); two sisters died on December 5th, 2004 (#244, #245). From Dec. 19th, 2004 through Jan. 12th, 2005 (4 weeks) they have 10 sisters dying, ages 88, 84, 77, 85, 91, 77, 98, 80, 67 and 81 -- the last 4 dying in the same week. Unless the population was in the thousands, this seems almost impossible. The next group of 8 deaths is shown between Jan. 16th, 2005 and Feb. 4th, 2005 -- they have a total of
25 sisters dying all within 14 weeks (#240 - #264). THEN, 9 days later following that last one (Feb. 4th) is when they claim Sister Lucy died, Feb. 13th, 2005.
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The 6 deaths following Sister Lucy all happened within 3 weeks.
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Overall, this one page depicts a tremendous increase in frequency of deaths. The first 3 deaths are shown over a period of 3 years. Two years from the first death to the second, and one year from the second death to the third. The 5th death listed (#232) is entirely out of order, like Sister Lucy's is. Maria de San Jose (#232) is shown as
dying in 1962 at age 26. Why is Maria de San Jose listed as number 232 if she had been dead for 42 years in 2004?
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Overall, there were
4 deaths prior to Feb. 2004 (if you include #232 being out of place),
then 40 more in the next year (Feb. 2004 to March 2005). That's a
FORTY-FOLD INCREASE in one year (4 deaths over 4 years to 40 over one year). Why the sudden increase? Something isn't right. These deaths occurred in many different places all over the world, and Sister Lucy's is the only death in Coimbra, Portugal.
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