Last of the Fatima visionaries dies

Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in Portuguese town of Fatima, has died at 97.

Sister Lucia, a Roman Catholic nun, who had been ill for the past three months, died at the Convent of Carmelitas in Coimbra, 120 miles north of Lisbon, TSF radio reported.