Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva
Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva (née Casa;[2][3] 7 April 1950 – 3 February 2017) was the first wife of the 35th and 39th president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,[4] and First Lady of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva
Marcela Temer (2016)
3 February 2017 (aged 66)
São Paulo, Brazil
Jardim da Colina Cemetery
São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
23°42′24″S 46°31′37″W / 23.7065676°S 46.5269805°W
- Brazilian
- Italian[1]
PT (1980–2017)
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- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit
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Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
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- Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty
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Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ
Biography[edit]
Lula's first wife, Maria de Lourdes da Silva Ribeiro, died in labour in 1971 when Lula was in his twenties.
[5] Marisa's first spouse, Marcos Cláudio dos Santos,[6] had died in 1971 during a robbery assault.
In March 1974, Lula had an illegitimate daughter, Lurian, with his then-girlfriend, Miriam Cordeiro.[7] The two never married.[8]
Two months later, in May 1974, Lula married Marisa Letícia Rocco Casa, a 24-year-old widow whom he had met the prior year. He had three sons with her, and adopted her son from her first marriage.[7]
On 24 January 2017, Marisa Letícia suffered a stroke. She died ten days later on 3 February, at the age of 66 at Sírio-Libanês Hospital.[9][10] President Michel Temer declared three days of official mourning.[11] She was cremated the next day. Her ashes were interred in the Cemitério Jardim da Colina, in her native São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo.[12]
Order of Christ
President Lula waves to the crowd with First Lady Marisa Letícia during the 2005 Independence Day military parade in Brasília
Marisa Letícia and King Harald V of Norway attend a state dinner in the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway, 13 September 2007
