(OSV News) -- Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last surviving Fatima visionary, died in the Carmelite cloister in Coimbra, Portugal, in February 2005 at the age of 97. At the time of her death, St. John Paul II recalled their 'bonds of spiritual friendship that intensified with the passing of time.'
'I always felt supported by the daily gift of her prayers, especially in difficult moments of trial and suffering,' the pope wrote in a message to Bishop Albino Mamede Cleto of Coimbra, less t