Francisco and Jacinta died very young, shortly after the apparitions, while Lucia survived for many years, becoming a Discalced Carmelite until her death on Feb. 13, 2005, A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

In 1918, two of the three children — Jacinta and Francisco, young siblings — died in the influenza pandemic. They were proclaimed saints by Pope Francis in 2017. (Their cousin, Lucia, lived to ...

Francisco and Jacinta died very young, shortly after the apparitions, while Lucia survived for many years, becoming a Discalced Carmelite until her death on Feb. 13, 2005, at the age of 97 in the ...