Pope John Paul II's link to Fatima

On May 13th, the Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. During his May 2010 visit to Portugal, Pope Benedict presided a special mass for tens of thousands of pilgrims on this feast day in Fatima, to honour the tenth anniversary of the beatification of Francisco and Jacinta, two of the three children to whom Our Lady appeared in the small Portuguese village almost a century ago. The two shepherd children died when they were still very young.

But Sr. Lucia Dos Santos, the last of the three to survive, lived in her convent in Coimbra, Portugal until her death in 2005 at the ripe age of 98. Pope John Paul II had a special relationship with Sr. Lucy as she is also known. Theirs was a friendship that spanned decades,- until the Pope John Paul's own death in 2005, less than two months after the passing of Sr. Lucy. The two had kept in touch regularly – up to the very last days of their lives – and as you’ll soon hear in this program by Tracey McClure, with special reason...