Goan Voice, Canada : Obituary

17th Feb 2005. NEVES MENEZES. Born: 02 Oct 1928. Husband of Mabel. Father of Norbert/Valerie and Jacqueline. Neves Menezes was one of the founders of the GOA (Toronto) in 1970. He played an active part in its affairs. He was also chair of the board and President of Goan Charitable Organization in 1971 & 1977. Neves Menezes, was on holiday in Goa when he died. He expired at Grace Hospital, Margao, following a massive heart attack. Body will be flown to Mississauga, Toronto, for the final rites. Memorial service at Guirim Church at 4.30 pm today i.e. Feb 19. . Further details will be posted on this site.

Friends may call at the Turner & Porter, Peel Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street (Hwy 10, N of QEW) on Saturday, February 26 and Sunday, February 27 from 2-8pm. Prayers Sunday 7pm. Funeral Mass to be held at St Patrick's Catholic Church, 921 Flagship Dr ON, Monday, February 28, 2005 at 10am. Private Internment St. Mary's Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the G.C.O. (Goan Charitable Organization)

Sister Lucia, Last Of Fatima Children, Dies At 97

LISBON - Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to see the Virgin at Fatima and who revealed a vision the Catholic Church said foretold the attempt to kill Pope John Paul, died on Sunday, the Church said.

Dos Santos, 97, who later became a nun, was the eldest of the shepherd children who in 1917 told of seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary six times. She died at her Carmelite convent at Coimbra in central Portugal.

"She had been weak for several weeks and had not left her cell," Coimbra Bishop Albino Cleto told the Church's Radio Renascenca.

The Vatican interpreted one part of the visions as foretelling the attempt to kill the Pope and Communism's persecution of Christianity. The apparitions took place the same year as the Russian Revolution.

The Pope believes the Madonna of Fatima saved his life on May 13, 1981, when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca nearly killed him in St Peter's Square. The shooting took place on one of the anniversaries of the 1917 apparitions.

In a sign of gratitude a year after the assassination attempt, the Pope had one of the 9mm bullets which Agca fired at him placed in the crown of the statue at Fatima.