sentences:  In 1990, her respiratory problems began to worsen and she was hospitalized.It was in her sick bed that she received the visit of Pope John Paul II (whom she had met, for the first time, in 1980).After being hospitalized for 16 months, Sister Dulce died on 13 March 1992, at the age of 77, in Santo Antônio's Convent, and she was buried at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.