Fátima 1917-2009

Written by Luis Eduardo López Padilla

Sunday, November 8, 2009 06:58

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared six times to three little shepherds: Lucia dos Santos;
Francisco and Jacinta Marto – cousins of Lucía – between May 13 and October 13, 1917.
She came to the small village of Fátima, which had remained faithful to the Catholic Church.
during the latest government persecutions. She came with a message from God for
every man, woman and child of our century. Our Lady of Fatima promised that the world
he would be at peace and many souls would go to Heaven if we listened to and obeyed Him.
orders.

She told us that the war was a punishment for sin; that God would punish the world for its
sins in our time through wars, hunger, persecution of the Church and the Holy
Father, unless we listened to and obeyed God's commandments.

The message is a desperate plea from Our Heavenly Mother, who sees us in great danger and
that comes to offer His help and advice. His message is also a prophecy, an indication
clear about what was going to happen in the 20th century, and what is still going to happen infallibly in
a very near future, all depending on our response to His requests.

The apparitions of Fatima are probably the most recognized ones.

part of the Church; it is enough to point out that Pope Benedict XV, on the occasion of the appearance of
Fátima restored the Diocese of Leiria; Pius XI blessed an image on December 6, 1928.
from Fátima to the Portuguese College in Rome. For his part, Pius XII, in his Encyclical Saeculo
Exit of June 13, 1940, remember that our Lady of Fatima has recommended the
rosary prayer. On May 13, 1946, he crowned the Virgin of Fatima as Queen of the
Peace and the World. On November 12, 1954, he granted the temple of Fátima the title of
Basilica. Likewise, Cardinal Tedeschini, before a million pilgrims, made public (and it
he collected the front page of L'Osservatore Romano from Sunday, November 18, 1951)
S.S. Pius XII, on October 30 and 31 and November 1, 1950, at 4 in the afternoon, in his walk
Diary through the gardens of the Vatican, I had seen the Miracle of the Sun of Fatima reproduced.
(coincidentally in the first 3 days the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima made a stop in Rome)
on a trip to Thailand and Singapore). Pope John XXIII, on December 13, 1962, declared the
Our Lady of Fátima, patroness of the Diocese of Leiria-Fátima. For his part, Paul VI visited Fátima.
on May 13, 1967, during the fiftieth anniversary of the apparitions. Paul VI saw Fatima as
an eschatological place [1]. He said on one occasion: "It was like a repetition or an announcement of a
scene of the end times.

In Fátima, on May 13, 1982, John Paul II (just a year after the assassination attempt he suffered in
Rome), during the homily of the Holy Mass confirmed the authenticity of the extraordinary message
which began to resonate all over the world from Fatima on May 13, 1917.

On the occasion of the beatification of the little shepherds – Jacinta and Francisco Marto – carried out
by Pope Wojtyla in the year 2000 and the announcement of the disclosure of the Third Part of the
Secret - whose apocalyptic expectation was fueled throughout the second half of the century.
XX - the Holy See officially announced the message of an apparition, of such magnitude, that it has no
precedent in Christian history.

As Renzo Allegri has written: "This is the first time that the Church has recognized

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officially the historic initiative of a prophecy whose source is an apparition of the Most Holy
Virgin. Prophecy that Cardinal Sodano defined as the greatest of all time
modern

Therefore, although it has been repeatedly stated that public revelation has come to an end
with the death of the last apostle, and that private revelations do not impose the obligation to
to believe in them; Fatima undoubtedly stands out as a historically significant event
supernatural that goes beyond a simple and common private revelation, which is already part of
the History of the Church and delves into the perfect plan that God has in store for it
decisive moment that humanity is going through. Indeed, due to the fulfilled prophecies that
it was previously announced – the imminent conclusion of the First World War, the announcement
of the reign of Pius XI, and the onset of the Second World War announced by the light
unknown that as a great sign appeared in the European sky on the night of January 25
1938, and the extraordinary Miracle of the Sun announced three months in advance and
witnessed by more than 70,000 souls; for the elevation to the altars of Francisco and Jacinta
Marto in the past year 2000, due to the abundant fruits of conversion throughout the five
continents through the mediation of Our Lady of Fatima and, of course, by the importance
for the future of the world and of the Church of the prophecy contained in the Third Part of
Secret; Fatima, we repeat, stands as an almost mandatory message for man of this
time.

Documentation

Let's agree that due to the lack of available documentation, because of the extent of its history and
due to the organized disinformation that the Message of Fatima was affected from a
At first, it is understandable that the topic remains somewhat known even to the best.
intended –both religious and secular– among which we include ourselves.

The story of the apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin Mary in Fatima in 1917 has as
the particularity that the publication of any new document almost makes it necessary,
always, to rethink many previous interpretations. This is not the case of Lourdes or of
Pontmain or from Rue du Bac, where everything was stated from the beginning, thus it was written, and thus
it was known immediately. The same reserve that Our Lady imposed on the shepherd children
about certain parts of the Message, and how they heroically respected them, shows how difficult it
it was in those early times that the History of Fátima began to be written; however, there is
Here is a brief list of the writers of the first period. Many difficulties still exist until
the present, through documentation that is surely unpublished, although the information already available to us
it allows us to approach with great certainty the knowledge of the essence of the part of the message
not revealed and make some criticism of any documentation that does not conform to what is already
known.

Here is an explanation that shows to what extent everything related to the appearances of
Our Lady was subject to notable pressures and reservations, and that for 90 years.
the reserve still keeps the very Third Part of the Message of the Mother of God hidden, but
known as the "Third Secret" or "Third Part of the Secret."

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How was it possible that three humble shepherd boys, to whom the Most Holy appeared
The virgin, aged 7, 8, and 10, could have suffered imprisonment and death threats for not wanting
reveal His message? Because on August 13, 1917, Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia were
kidnapped from their own home by the 'free-thinking' Mayor of the region, Arturo de Oliveira
Santos, also known as 'The Tinsmith' - deceiving them into taking them in his car to the Cova
from Iría–, and locked up in the common prison of Ourem where he even threatened to boil them
in a pot of hot oil.

Unfortunately, the most valuable bibliography on Fatima remains unpublished or

restricted, even due to language issues. Such is the case of the two peak works: historical
one, criticism the other.

The historical work par excellence is the work in about 26 volumes by Father Joaquín María
Alonso, who never saw the light. Father Alonso, a Spanish Claretian priest, was the official archivist.
of Fatima, and he carried out that work at the request of Monsignor Venancio, the second Bishop of
Leiria-Fatima during the 1970s. For his noble task, Father Alonso studied and commented more
of 5,000 documents from Portuguese and foreign sources, in addition to having maintained
correspondence and interviews with many eyewitnesses of the events, including with the
Sister María Lucía of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Some others are known.
works of his pen, which he continued to produce until his death in 1981.

The second of these works –the most notable critical study–, from which will also be cited
extracts, was published in French in 1983 by La Contre-Réforme Catholique (C.R.C.),
France. It is 'All the Truth about Fatima', by Brother Michel of the Holy Trinity, composed
of four volumes, of which the IV and last remains unpublished even in its original language; the III
The published volume covers events up to 1960. One might think that the lack of the unpublished volume
It detracts from the importance of the work, but only interrupts the continuity of the narrative, as it is too much and
the information you provide is very valuable and also leads to very solid conjectures about the
reasons for its non-publication, in light of the events that began to unfold in the
Church after the death of His Holiness Pius XII, on October 9, 1958. These three volumes allow
to know very approximately the content of the Third Part of the Message of Fatima even without
reveal.

At the request of the Abbot of Nantes, Brother François de Marie des Anges (C.R.C.) made four
summaries of the three published volumes and the unpublished fourth of Toute la Vérité sur Fatima
Fr. Michel, those who limit the information quite a bit due to its brevity, but are no less
brighter than the original work. The IV summary, 'Fatima, Intimate Joy, global event',
corresponding to the named unpublished IV volume, recounts many recent events that involve
dignitaries who are still in this world.

Both the three volumes of Brother Michel that have already appeared, as well as the four summaries, were
published in English by 'Immaculate Heart Publications', Fort Erie, Canada, under the title
'The Third Secret'. There is even an unpublished translation into Spanish of the first three.
volumes of Brother Michel, objected in some circles for being a translation from the
English version.

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We said at the beginning that the lack of translations limited the possibility of knowing many
works.

In English, there is a remarkable collection of documents, articles, and lectures.

about recent events in the History of Fatima, 'The Devil's Final Battle'
Diablo), edited and compiled by R.P. Paul Kramer, and published in 2003 by The
Missionary Association, Buffalo, USA. The compilation includes excerpts from the works of notable figures.
pens, some in English language of North American origin, such is the case of the author himself
work, Fr. Nicholas Gruner, director of the Fatima Center in Canada and of the excellent magazine
quarterly The Fatima Crusader; John Vennari, editor of the prestigious newspaper The Catholic
Family News; Christofer Ferrara, Andrew Cezanek and Fr. Gregory Hesse among others. This
work, of notable bravery and documentation, was also printed in Portuguese and Italian, and
It can be found on the Internet, with reports that there is a translation into Spanish.
still unpublished.

Among the very recent works are the books by Andrea Tornielli, Il Segreto Svelato, Gribaudi,
Milan in 2000; from the Vaticanist Marco Tossati, in 2002, with The Secret Unrevealed; from
Solideo Paolini, Fatima, do not despise the prophecy in 2005 and that of Antonio Socci, 'The Fourth
"Secret of Fatima", Rizzoli, Italy, December 2006. The work of Socci, journalist and presenter.
From television, who interviewed many Vatican personalities, was introduced to society.
by Vittorio Messori in a lengthy article in the Italian press in November 2006, and includes,
as a novelty, a '...precious expertise on the text of the Third Secret', which only affirms
repeatedly that the Vatican text presented on June 26, 2000 is incomplete because
the words that the Most Holy Virgin transmitted to them on July 13, 1917 are missing, and this with the
verification of Mons. Capovilla, who was the personal secretary of John XXIII, as it
we will see later.

In the same opinion, this server stated in his book The Eclipsed Sun (August 2000) that the
the revelation announced by the Vatican hierarchy was a simple VISION, but it did not
they had published the words that the Most Holy Virgin had transmitted to the children on the 13th
July 1917. And there were a bunch of reasons to assert it, among others, the fact that the
the same Lady at the end of the Secret told Lucia: do not tell this to anyone, to Francisco yes
you can tell him. If it was just a vision, Our Lady's phrase would be unnecessary, since
that Francisco had "seen", but had not "heard".

A Message of Warning and Hope

She told us that God had decided to use Russia as an instrument of punishment, to punish
to the whole world if we do not achieve the conversion of Russia to the Catholic faith, through
our prayers and sacrifices and obedience to His requests (especially those requests
of consecration and repair.

She promised us: “If they heed My wishes, Russia will convert and there will be peace.”

But she also warned us: 'If not, she will spread her mistakes throughout the world promoting
wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father

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He will have much to suffer, several nations will be annihilated.

To avoid receiving these punishments, she told us that it was necessary to make special reparations for
the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, especially through the
Reparative Communion of the First Five Saturdays of the month, and the solemn Consecration of
Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for all the Catholic Bishops of the world, along with
the Pope, done on the same day and at the same time.

In conclusion, Your message is a promise of the final triumph of Your Immaculate Heart over
the evil. She promised that despite how difficult the future might be (and it seems that this is the
path chosen by almost all of humanity today, and the worst is yet to come, and very soon,
as we will see later), in the end She will triumph; humanity will finally fulfill Its
Orders and there will be peace in the world.

It is the responsibility of each one of us to listen, read, learn, and apply this message.
Celestial in our own lives, particularly through the recitation of the Rosary
daily. To the extent that we can, we must also do everything possible
to ensure that this final warning from Our Heavenly Mother is spread and that
its meaning should be explained to everyone before it's too late. We must not be
complacent, given the promise of His final triumph, because that triumph depends on our
cooperation with the grace of God and His plan made known at Fatima.

The Devil knows that when the complete Message of Fatima is widely proclaimed and
correctly understood, appreciated, and obeyed, your empire of evil in the world will be
destroyed. That's why the Devil and his human agents, well-meaning people but
terribly misguided in their service, they have launched a counteroffensive against the
message from Fatima, to obscure it and cause enough confusion so that the faithful do not
obey Our Lady and do not react in time.

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From the Greek eschaton, which means 'the last', contrary to skatós which means excremental.

[2] Cited by Antonio Socci. The Fourth Secret of Fatima. Rizzoli. Italy. 5th edition February 2007.

The Pope of Fatima, Mondadori. Milan 2006 p. 21 Cited by Socci. p.16.

Sister Lucia, Memories, Fourth Memoir, 3rd ed. Oct. 1988, Vice-postulation, Fatima -
Portugal.

In the apparitions of Fatima, each shepherd boy had a different relationship with the Virgin.
from just hearing her to seeing her and talking to her. Thus, Lucia saw, heard, and spoke with Maria; Jacinta
I saw and heard, while Francisco only saw. Therefore, he witnessed the events of the so-called vision.
but he did not hear the words of the virgin. Hence, the virgin said: 'To Francisco yes
you can tell him/her.

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