What has happened to the Fatima visionaries?
Francisco and Jacinta were victims of the flu pandemic of 1918 and died in 1919 and 1920 respectively. Lucia is the sole surviving visionary, and at 88 years of age she remains a cloistered nun at a Carmelite convent in Portugal. Sister Lucia at one of her rare public appearances, at Fatima with Pope John Paul II in May 1991 on the tenth anniversary of the Papal assassination attempt.
