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Traditional Catholic Faith => Fighting Errors in the Modern World => Topic started by: cassini on December 24, 2025, 06:18:57 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7fEnxICPy0
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I did not know about his Opus Dei connection ... extremely interesting.
Opus Dei set up shop in Coimbra, their first location in Portugal, at a location that was not of any great importance in Portugal overall, in 1946, but then in 1948 Sister Lucia allegedly requested to be transferred there, and Escriva claims to have met with Sister Lucia just days before they rolled out the imposter for Montini's visit.
Now, Montini helped orchestrate her transfer to Coimbra ... but, really, why? What did he have to do with Sister Lucia, being the Archbishop of Milan?
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https://www.france-catholique.fr/La-vie-cachee-de-Soeur-Lucie.html
Mainstream media outlet.
Google translate...want any clarifications? just PM .
"A few years of public life in Fatima and a life hidden until her “birth in Heaven” at 97, in Coimbra: this is what the Carmelite shows where the little shepherdess of Aljustrel, Lucie dos Santos, lived in the school of the Virgin Mary and Saint Teresa.
Even today the baptized are not mistaken: the groups of visitors succeed each other from half an hour to half an hour in the chapel of brown wood enhanced by gold by the Portuguese baroque and “at the memorial”, this small museum of the daily life of a Carmelite so simply extraordinary.
To remove her from the curious who left neither she nor her family in peace, the Bishop of Fatima, Bishop José Aves Correira da Silva, had entrusted her education to the Porto college of the Sisters of St. Dorothy – founded by Saint Paola Frassinetti in the 19th century. In a seventh apparition, the Virgin Mary confirmed to Lucy the bishop’s choice.
She left her village of Aljustrel, at the gates of Fatima, on June 16, 1921, after four years that could be called “public life”. The separation was painful.
And it was during her three years of college that she gave her whole life to God definitively by a vow of perpetual chastity, on August 26, 1923. It was with the canonization of Saint Teresa of Lisieux, by Pope Pius XI, on May 17, 1925, that she heard the call to Carmel. But the Portuguese Republic prohibited communities that had no social commitment. Then Lucie thought she would learn French and postulate at the Carmel of Lisieux.
Finally, she learned Spanish, at the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Dorothea in Galicia, in Pontevedra, where she entered at eighteen and a half years old.
But the call to Carmel will be stronger. The Carmelites were expelled from the Carmel of Coimbra in 1910. They could not return to Coimbra until 1933, and to the Carmel, previously occupied by the military, only in 1946. It took two interventions by Pope Pius XII himself for Lucy to have the bishop’s permission to join them, after more than 21 years of apostolic religious life, on
March 25, 1948, at 5:30 a.m. **
It was the Annunciation and the Holy Thursday. She took the habit two months later, on May 13, 1947, thirty years after the first appearance at the Cova da Iria. She was 41. One can ask for her intercession for the vocations that are unsure on the place where to embody the call of God.
She will live there 57 years of a hidden life, apart from the four visits of a pope to Fatima, each time on May 13: Paul VI in 1967, and John Paul II in 1982, 1991 and 2000.
The small museum dedicated to Sister Lucie in Coimbra allows to grasp a little of this aura of the days around the prayer life of the community but the essential must still be revealed: we expect a lot from the process in beatification that has entered its Roman phase.
The diocesan trial, opened on April 30, 2008, less than 5 years after the death of Sister Lucie, thanks to an exemption from Benedict XVI, ended on February 13, 2017, twelfth anniversary of his death. It made it possible to gather 15 483 pages of docuмents, ordered in 19 sealed coffers of red wax and sent to Rome, to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. ***
To gather these docuмents it took the work of two bishops, two postulators, three vice-postulators, eight people for the historical commission. There were 61 testimonies, including those of a cardinal, four bishops, thirty-four lay people and Carmelites.
The closing ceremony was presided over by Bishop Virgilio Antunes of Coimbra. The postulator, Father Carmelite Romano Gambalunga, cited the bliss of pure hearts to describe Sister Lucia.
The Roman phase of the trial must first focus on the examination of the human and Christian virtues of the little shepherdess who became Carmelite, in the light of her many writings, including an abundant correspondence. It will result in the writing of a positio, a spiritual biography of Sister Lucia.
At the Memorial of Coimbra, we discover a thousand objects of the life of Lucie dos Santos, who became Carmelite under the name of Sister Marie Lucie of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart, such as her rosary offered by John Paul II, her first handwritten notebook, a white cape and a brown carmelite garment, her works embroidered with gold, photos, her electronic typewriter, suitcases of mail...she died the next day.
To prepare for the revelation of the “third secret” in the year 2000, John Paul II had sent the future Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone – then “number two” to the Doctrine of the Faith – to meet Sister Lucia. She will confirm that the request of the Virgin Mary was satisfied by the consecration of the world to her Immaculate Heart on March 25, 1984, that the published secret is complete – “I know no other” 1 – and that the interpretation given of it is correct. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger will present his theological commentary with Bishop Bertone at the Vatican on June 26, 2000 and the docuмentation – including the facsimile of Lucy’s writings – is freely accessible on the Vatican website*.
She rests while waiting for the resurrection of the flesh in the basilica of the Trinity of Fatima, her tomb is next to that of Saint Jacintah, and in front of that of St. Francis Marto.
She was six years old, when she made her first confession, out loud, not knowing that it was necessary to whisper for the priest only. The priest, Father Cruz, advised her to go then to ask Mary for the grace of always having Jesus in his mind. She chose one of the statues of the Virgin, knelt down and said this prayer several times. And she saw the Virgin smile at her.
In Carmel, at the end of her life, in 2003, she will also see the tears of the Virgin. The statue of the Mirse who cried is in the Carmel Chapel, surrounded by the small statues (...) Jacinta and Francis.
One could say that the life of the little shepherdess carried, for her first communion in the arms of her brother, from their village of Aljustrel to the church of her baptism, so as not to dirty her beautiful white robe, lived all her life under the sign of the smile and tears of the Virgin Mary. And that she teaches to do the same for the love of God that had his heart beat since childhood and the salvation of the “poor sinners.” And also for the love of the Holy Father that they loved so much - the three of them.
This does not prevent to go see the fascinating film-investigation of Pierre Barnérias, M and the Third Secret, released in 2014..."
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** 5:30 am. !!! Were they hiding something or SOMEONE??!!...
***Can we presume that many of the precious docs of Fr. Alonso were forwarded to Rome...? The OP video asks if anyone had info on their most recent location.