For the past several years, the organization Sister Lucy Truth (SLT) has posited that there was an impostor Sr. Lúcia. Various supporting claims have been made to this effect, including the recently published video “The Priest Who Knew Too Much.”[1] This video argues that the former archivist of Fátima, Fr. Joaquín María Alonso, supported what we can call the “Fake Lúcia Hypothesis” (FLH). Citing Alonso as supporting this notion is spurious. Let us first provide a brief exposition of the heart of the matter.

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