Portugal: Lucy Sister Memorial attracts thousands of doughnuts to Coimbra

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The sister of Łucja dos Santos, the visionaries of Fatima, is visited mostly by pilgrims from Poland.

Mafalda Tavares, a typical of the museum commemorating a Portuguese nun, reported in the first half of that year to Memorial them. About 5,000 pilgrims came from all over the world. Among them, as she added, dominated the buds from Poland. She added that due to the large number of Poles in this museum, there are more and more book publications in Polish concerning the Portuguese barefoot Carmelite and the 1917 apparitions in Fatima, in which she participated.

Mafalda Tavares explained that the advantage of Poles among all those who scope the museum in Coimbra, operating at the monastery of the Carmelite barefoot, confirms the statistic of participation in the exhibition entitled “Sister of Łucja among us”.

– In total, nearly 3.5 1000 people saw the exhibition, of which 1.4 1000 were Poles. There were 688 Portuguese people there, and another nations, specified as the Irish, Hungarians or Italians, did not exceed 200 people – Tavares explained, adding that over 7.4,000 people visited this facility during the full past year.

The museum in Coimbra contains souvenirs of Sister Lucia, the Servant of God, including her individual belongings, letters, and individual gifts received from the Popes. Most of them were donated to the museum by the monastery of Carmelite barefooted Carmelites at St Teresa's call. Inside the museum there is besides a faithful replica of the cell in which the Portuguese nun lived and prayed.

APW, KAI

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