{"id":3117,"date":"2008-02-13T23:53:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T04:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/02\/13\/waiting-period-waived-for-sister-lucia\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T23:53:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T04:53:28","slug":"waiting-period-waived-for-sister-lucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/02\/waiting-period-waived-for-sister-lucia\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting period waived for Sister Lucia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">VATICAN CITY &#8212; Pope Benedict XVI has<br \/>\nput Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to<br \/>\nhave seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917 in Fatima, on a<br \/>\nfast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The customary waiting period before beginning the process that can lead<br \/>\nto sainthood is five years after a person&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The case of Sister Lucia, who died in 2005 at age 97, was granted the<br \/>\nsame waiver as was given in the cases of Mother Teresa and Pope John<br \/>\nPaul II.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, who is prefect of the<br \/>\nVatican&#8217;s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, made the announcement<br \/>\nduring a Wednesday evening Mass at the cathedral in Coimbra, Portugal,<br \/>\nmarking the third anniversary of Lucia&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1103ap_vatican_sister_lucia.html?source=rss\"\ntarget=\"_blank\"><img\nstyle=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 76px; height: 26px;\"\nalt=\"Article\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY &#8212; 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,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}