India(Goa):She can speak fluent French and Italian and does translation jobs at the Vatican Archives.
Sister Lucy Britto from Goa has the distinction of becoming the first Indian nun to have served at the Vatican during the pontificates of three popes. The nun, who can speak fluent French and Italian, believes her linguistic skills helped her work with the Vatican Archives under Blessed John Paul II (1978-2005), Benedict XVI and Francis. “I work in the Vatican Archives, where all documents and letters of the Pope are kept. We save the records and details on the computers. All documents and letters are treated with utmost secrecy and respect for the person who writes to the Pope,” explains Sister Lucy. She said she is placed in the archives because “probably in the archives they need persons with knowledge of many languages, since the letters come from all over the world.” Incidentally, Sister Lucy’s journey from Goa, considered the Rome of the East, to Rome has had interesting twists and turns along the way.Born in Veroda-Cuncolim, Sr Lucy along with her parents, two sisters and a brother shifted to Mumbai in the 1950s.
