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Sister Lucy and the Brown Scapular
On September 13, 1917, the Virgin of Fatima had announced
to the three children the coming of Our Lady of Mount Carmel the next month. On
October 13, during the closing of the cycle of apparitions, when the
conversation of Lucy with Our Lady of the Rosary was finished, while the crowd
contemplated the grandiose cosmic miracle, the three shepherds enjoyed several
visions. They were given to admire in the sky three successive pictures, the
last of which was Our Lady of Mount Carmel calling to mind the Glorious
Mysteries of the Rosary. That same evening, Lucy would relate her vision to
Canon Formigao: "At the end, the Virgin Who appeared to me 'seemed to me to be
Our Lady of Mount Carmel.'"
 At the end of the
1940's, while conversing with three Carmelite priests, Father Donald
O'Callagham, Father Albert Ward and Father Luis Gonzaga de Oliveira, Sister
Maria-Lucia of the Immaculate Heart (known as Sister Lucy) recalled that the
Blessed Virgin Mary wished that the devotion of the holy Scapular be
propagated. If Our Lady, during Her last public apparition, had held it in Her
hands, it was to urge us to wear it, quite like in the preceding apparitions,
the presence of Her Rosary had clearly manifested the wishes of Her Heart.
The messenger of
Heaven also explained it to Father Howard Rafferty when the priest questioned
her in the name of the Father General of the Carmelites, on October 15, 1950:
"Our Lady, Lucy told him, held the Scapular in Her hands because She wants us
all to wear it."
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