Fatima

 

Outline:

A.  History of Portugal.  Medieval founding of Fatima.  Independence.  Masonic persecution of the Church. 

B.  The Law of Separation allows divorce, outlaws religious weddings, abolishes illegitimacy, secularized cemeteries and forbad all catechism.  “…in two generations, Catholicism will be completely eliminated in Portugal.”  After 1912/1915 uprisings, 17,000 priests and Religious were murdered.

C. 1916 angelic apparitions:  “Pray, pray very much.  The Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary have designs of mercy on you.”  “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the sacrileges, outrages and indifferences by which He Himself is offended, and through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of you the conversion of poor sinners.”

D.  Marian apparitions.  May 13th:  the first; June 13th: a crowd assembles; July 13th: pray the rosary to end the war, in October the name and “a miracle for all to see and believe,” vision of hell; a warning of a worse war precursed by a light in the sky.  January 25-26, 1938 aurora borealis.  (March 12, 1939 Hitler invades Czechoslovakia.)  Pius XI dies April 10th. September 1, 1939 war begins. “If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church.”

E. The Bolshevik butcher’s bill against the Catholic Church in Eastern Europe:  by 1954, 1.6 millions Catholics murdered or deported.  15,700 priests, 8,334 seminaries, 1,600 monasteries, 31,779 churches.  Total deaths:  Lenin:  20 million; Stalin: 46 million; Mao Tse-Dung:  70 million.

F. Papal Persecutions.  May 13, 1981.  “It was a mother’s hand that guided the bullet’s path and in his throes the Pope halted at the threshold of Death.”

G. July 18, 1981:  The Third Secret.  “The Message of Fatima.” www.ewtn.com/Fatima/ apparition/Third_Secret/Fatima.htp.

H.  August 13th: children had been arrested; September 13th:  30,000 come with illegal rosaries. October 13th:  Miracle of the Sun

 

  

Bibliography:

Daniel Benjamin, The Age of Sacred Terror. 2002.