Along with her cousins, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto, they claim
they first starting having visions of the Virgin Mary in a field in the
Portuguese town of Fatima beginning on May 13, 1917. Lucia said she was
the only one of the three who could hear what the Virgin said. At first
government officials dispel the children's claims and tortured them to
have them declared that they fabricated a lie. With growing hostality
from the government, the children were released and Fatima became a
pilgrimage site for many Christians. Lucia became a nun in her later
years, after the deaths of her cousins, who died a few years after the
apparitions of natual causes.