In the Shadows of Fátima - Lucien Gregoire - Bog

TRUE CRME In 1917, a 'Lady' is said to have appeared to children at Fátima, Lucia Santos and her little cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto., The 'seers' as Lucia told reporters, "Only I am brave enough to hear the 'Lady'" Lucia tells her cousins the 'Lady' said that if they suffered and died for sinners of the flesh, they would go to live with Jesus in heaven. In the coming days, Lucia introduces them to self-mortification including binding their bodies in abrasive ropes, thrashing each other with stinging nettles and unrelenting thirst which leads to their deaths. In the wake of Francisco's death, Lucia's father tells a reporter, "Lucia will do anything to become a saint and she knows many saints practiced self-mortification. I always knew she was smart, but to fool little children into doing the suffering for her ..." In the coming week, he died in his sleep at age 51.
That, not two children, but five children happened to have died violent deaths within months of each other in a tiny hamlet in Portugal, could have been coincidence. That they happened to have been of the same family, could have been coincidence. That they happened to have been the five children Lucia Santos lived with, could have been ... ...when children know too much.