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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, on a fast track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday.
The waiting period before beginning the process that can lead to sainthood is five years after a person’s death. The case of Sister Lucia, who died in 2005 at age 97, was granted the same waiver as was given in the cases of Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II.
