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\nHidden Revelations: The Star of Esther and the Secrets of Fatima<\/em>
\nBy Marianna Bartold<\/em>
\nIt is said that the best place to hide something is in plain sight.<\/strong>
\nWhen Sr. Lucia, the last Fatima visionary, was called into eternity on\u00a0February 13, 2005<\/span>, both the Catholic and mainstream media sought the significance of the date. Most sources tied-in to\u00a0May 13,<\/span>\u00a0noting the \u201c13\u201d in the anniversary date of the Fatima apparitions (1917), the papal assassination attempt (1981), and the late pope\u2019s world consecration to the Immaculate Heart (1982). Ultimately, the mainstream efforts implied that Sr. Lucia\u2019s death was a sign that Fatima is finished. Yet when an incredible Scriptural connection to February 13th and Fatima is examined as a whole, the opposite conclusion is made: While the date of Lucia\u2019s death is definitely a sign, it is one alerting the world that we have reached\u00a0the most critical chapter<\/strong>\u00a0of the Fatima revelations.
\nHeretofore, it was never noticed that the date of Sr. Lucia\u2019s passing links to\u00a0a small yellow star, worn by Our Lady of Fatima<\/strong><\/span>. This star is a profound symbol long recognized by tradition as the\u00a0\u201cStar of Esther.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0It points to an Old Testament history called\u00a0The Book of Esther, which relates the story of a Jewish queen whose intercession saved her people from annihilation.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Queen Esther\u2019s mediation allowed the ancient Hebrews\u00a0\u201cto gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives\u201d on \u201cthe 13th day of Adar.\u201d<\/strong>
\nUntil Lucia\u2019s passing, the magnitude of\u00a0\u201cthe 13th of Adar\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0could not be realized, even by Fatima scholars. Her death signals that, like the Jews who stood for their lives on the 13th of Adar, our own great battle against annihilation is begun. The secret significance of Lucia\u2019s date of death has been right before our eyes all the time:\u00a0It occurred exactly 40 minutes before sunset, on the 13th of February\u2013 in the Hebrew month of Adar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

P.S. to the Message of Fatima<\/strong>
\nThus it seems that even Lucia\u2019s death accentuated the entire Fatima message, manifesting a kind of heavenly post-script:\u00a0\u201cHear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.\u201d<\/strong>
\nIn the Scriptures,\u00a0the 13th day of Adar is one with historical portent. It marks the Machabees\u2019 liberation of the Holy Land after a four-year combat;<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the battle throughout the Persian Empire during the reign of Esther; and the day warriors fasted before going out to war. The theme becomes obvious: An epic battle of God\u2019s ecclesia against her enemies.
\nBecause there are no insignificancies in God\u2019s designs, there are great reasons for the Star of Esther adorning Our Lady of Fatima. In 2005 its purpose was again emphasized when God willed that Lucia should leave this world on a date directing our attention to both Esther and Our Lady of Fatima.
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\nOf Mary, There is Never Enough<\/strong>
\nJust as the star adorning Our Lady of Fatima points to The Book of Esther, so does The Book of Esther point to all of the Fatima revelations. Esther\u2019s theme centers on secrets and revelations, suggesting that\u00a0The Book of Esther is a figure type for The Apocalypse (Greek for Revelations).<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Book of Esther appears to encapsulate what Fatima highlights about both the Virgin\u2019s and the Church\u2019s singular office in salvation history. Esther\u2019s Star on Our Lady\u2019s gown directs the Church to\u00a0\u201cthe history of Queen Esther, who was herself a great [figure] type of our Queen Mary!\u201d<\/strong><\/span>
\nBut first, what is meant by a figure type? In its application to the whole of Scripture, an Old Testament figure type is a person, place, thing or event foreshadowing a New Testament archetype (a perfect model or type). The New Testament archetype is always greater than its Old Testament figure type.
\nOur Lord Himself plainly alluded to Scriptural figure types when, after His Resurrection, he appeared to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. \u201cAnd beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.\u201d Our Lord used similar words when He subsequently appeared to the apostles.
\nSo, too,\u00a0“Mary appears on every page of the Old Testament,”<\/strong>\u00a0said St. Bernard, In Genesis 3:15, God Himself\u00a0literally<\/strong>\u00a0prophesied Our Lady as \u201cthe woman,\u201d but She is\u00a0foreshadowed<\/strong>\u00a0in many figure types – including but not limited to Miriam, Sarah, the foot-shaped cloud of Mt. Carmel, Ruth, Anna, Judith, and Esther; in the\u00a0Gebirah<\/strong>\u00a0(queen mother of the Davidic kings); in the mother of the seven Machabees; in the spouse of the Canticle of Canticles, the daughter of Zion, the burning bush on Mt. Sion, the Ark of the Covenant, the Root of Jesse, the City of God, and the Temple of Jerusalem.
\nIn the Apocalypse, the Woman (the Virgin Mary) is prefigured by a \u201ctype within type\u201d \u2014 \u201ca woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars<\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0This woman is a type of the Church, but the eternal Church is herself a type of Mary. With these examples, one begins to see what is meant by \u201ctypes within types.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Book of Esther, The Book of Revelations<\/strong>
\nAmong the many women who are figure types of the Virgin, Esther is foremost for three reasons: she interceded for her people;\u00a0her Star appears on Our Lady\u2019s dress; and the number \u201c13\u201d is central to her history<\/strong><\/span>. Space does not permit a thorough explanation of the doctrinal depths found in The Book of Esther\u2019s figure types. However, the following comparisons are those most pertinent to the purpose of this essay.
\n\u00b7 In the Old Testament, the fourth chapter of The Book of Esther relates the history of a \u201cfair and exceedingly beautiful\u201d virgin named Edissa, \u201cwho by another name was called Esther.\u201d\u00a0I<\/strong>n the Old Testament of the Hebrew text, her name was H\u2019d\u2019ssah – meaning myrtle, a white, five-pointed, star-shaped flower.<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00b7 An orphan, Esther was raised by her uncle Mardochai, who had been carried away from Jerusalem at the onset of the Babylonian Exile. Esther was in her uncle\u2019s care from the time she was a \u201clittle one\u201d – a \u201cfigure-type\u201d phrase foreshadowing the Virgin Mary\u2019s sublime humility.
\n\u00b7 Mardochai himself is an enigmatic \u201ctype within type.\u201d He seems to embody in his person the faithful in exile but also a \u201cvizier\u201d or vicar, if not the Vicar of Christ.
\n\u00b7 Esther and Mardochai lived in Susan, Persia\u2019s capital city. The Persian king was Assuerus (a figure type for God) and his queen was Vasthi.
\nThe Book of Esther, permeated with figure types, opens with the historical narration of the king\u2019s feast. To grasp the types, one must understand that the first chapter of Esther alludes to the glory of the heavenly kingdom, the hierarchy of creation, and the Garden of Paradise, even to the first woman, Eve:
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\n\u201cNow in the third year of his reign, he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces, that he might show the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the greatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a hundred and fourscore days. And when the days of the feast were expired, he invited all the people that were found in Susan, from the greatest to the least: and commanded a feast to be made seven days, in the court of the garden, and of the wood, which was planted by the care and the hand of the king.\u201d
\nAt the time, \u201cVasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace, where the king Assuerus was used to dwell.\u201d However, on the seventh day of the second feast, she disobeyed the king\u2019s solitary command \u201cto show her beauty to all the people and the princes; for she was exceedingly beautiful. But she refused, and would not come at the king\u2019s command.\u201d
\nVasthi, the first queen, is a figure type for the Lady Eve, queen of the earthly Paradise where God Himself \u201cused to dwell.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0But\u00a0she forever lost her office when she refused the King\u2019s singular command.<\/strong>\u00a0No more is said of Vasthi\u2019s fate other than the words of an edict proclaiming she could \u201ccome in no more to the king,\u00a0but another, that is better than her, be made queen in her place.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u201cAfter this, when the wrath of King Assuerus was appeased, he remembered Vasthi, and what she had done and what she had suffered.\u201d In the Old Testament, a phrase like \u201che remembered\u201d signaled that the very next action, no matter how innocuous or unconventional, is an immediate manifestation of God\u2019s mercy. This Divine intervention looks like a natural human event, but it is always God Who is behind it. Knowing this helps us understand why one moment the king remembered Vasthi but, in the very next sentence, he issued an edict summoning all the most beautiful virgins of the land, so that he might select a new bride. The virgins were brought to the capital, and \u201cwere delivered to Egeus the eunuch; Esther also among the rest of the maidens were delivered to him to be kept in the number of the women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Figure Types within Figure Types<\/strong>
\nIt was not until the twelfth month (known as Adar in the Hebrew calendar) that \u201cevery virgin\u2019s turn came to go in to the king, after all had been done for setting them off to advantage.\u201d This \u201cgoing in to the king\u201d represents spiritual union \u201cin God,\u201d which requires grace, time and merits. The Book of Esther relates that the virgins were given a year\u2019s preparation before \u201cgoing in to\u201d the king, \u201cso that for six months they were anointed with oil of myrrh, and for [sic] other six months they used certain perfumes and sweet spices.\u201d
\nAgain, we see figure types within figure types. In the Old Testament, myrrh is used in the \u201coil of unction,\u201d which God commanded Moses to prepare immediately before the building of the Ark of the Covenant \u2013 which itself is another figure type of Mary. Myrrh (Arabic, \u201cbitter\u201d) was used for the healing of wounds and bruises; it was also a symbol of self-sacrifice.
\nHow striking, then, is the six month\u2019s anointing with oil of myrrh during the virgins\u2019 preparation. Likewise, the other perfumes and sweet spices in the second six months\u2019 preparation are reminiscent of the ingredients in the holy incense, which God ordered Moses to set before the tabernacle of the testimony. In all of the Fatima revelations, the need for prayer and sacrifice was stressed repeatedly.
\nWhen Esther\u2019s turn came to \u201cgo in to the king…she sought not women\u2019s ornaments, but whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper of the virgins had a mind, he gave to adorn her. For she was exceeding fair, agreeable and amiable in the eyes of all…And the king loved her more than all the women, and she had favor and kindness before him above all the women, and he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vasthi.\u201d This event took place \u201cin the tenth month which is called Tebeth, in the seventh year of the king\u2019s reign.\u201d
\nIn this passage, we can easily see why Esther is a figure type of the Virgin Mary, She who is \u201cfull of grace\u201d and blessed amongst all women.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 The time between Vasthi\u2019s fall to Esther\u2019s appearance before the king is a span of four years. These four years prefigure the four centuries of Advent.
\n\u00b7Tebeth correlates with the Gregorian calendar\u2019s twelfth month of December, the month in which we commemorate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
\n\u00b7 When Our Lady, Esther\u2019s archetype, appeared at Fatima, She also wore no adornments other than those symbolizing that with which God Himself adorned her.<\/p>\n

The Secrets of the Star<\/strong>
\nThus Esther became the Queen of Persia, but for a reason established by the Lord. In obedience to her uncle, Mardochai, she revealed to the king neither her ancestry, her Hebrew name nor their kinship. The Hebrew texts relate that she gave her name as Hester\u00a0(in Persian, Esther \u2013 which means \u201cstar.\u201d).<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0As we shall see, this change in name was more than a translation.
\n\u2019The alteration from H\u2019d\u2019,ssah to Hester refers to a secret, because\u00a0Hester translates to \u201chidden [meaning of the] star.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Esther had three secrets, as does Our Lady of Fatima. The Hebrew name for The Book of Esther is Megillat Esther \u2013 e.g., “revelation of [that which is] hidden.\u201d By displaying the Star of Esther, it seems Our Lady of Fatima not only wishes to \u201cdiscreetly suggest a hidden and sublime aspect of Her unique vocation\u201d as Mediatrix but also \u201csecrets within secrets\u201d or \u201crevelations within revelations.\u201d
\n\u00b7 The word play of Megillat Hester suggests another meaning:\u00a0God is hiding His Face.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The Hebrew text of The Book of Esther, which ends with Ch. 10:3, lacks any mention of God\u2019s name. Jewish scholars refer to the Lord\u2019s role as Hester Panim or \u201chidden Face\u201d. The implications for our own times are staggering.
\nThe plot in Esther builds after her uncle Mardochai did not attend her marriage banquet; rather, he \u201cstayed at the king\u2019s gate.\u201d This one reference is a deep figure-type: the royal marriage banquet foreshadows the Virgin as the Bride of the Divine Spouse and the Church as the Bride of Christ; Mardochai standing at the king\u2019s gates typifies he who guards the kingdom of God on earth, as well as the faithful in the kingdom; the gates themselves refer to both the Virgin (Gate of Heaven) and the Church (the Narrow Gate).
\nSo it was that by lingering at the gate, Mardochai overheard a conspiracy to kill the king. He told Esther, who told the king in Mardochai\u2019s name, thus saving the king\u2019s life.
\nSoon afterward, the king advanced Aman, of the race of Agag (which was at enmity with the Jews), setting him above all the princes. The king\u2019s servants bent their knees and worshiped Aman \u2013 all but Mardochai. Aman became so obsessed with Mardochai\u2019s fidelity to the First Commandment that he plotted revenge against him and all the Jews.
\nCunningly employing his position in the royal court, Aman issued a decree that all Jews living throughout Persia would be massacred on one day, down to the last man, woman, and child. To choose the date of this annihilation, lots were cast into an urn. The month chosen was the twelfth month, called Adar. It seems Aman himself (who is an anti-Christ figure) chose the date \u2013\u00a0the 13th of Adar.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Intercession of the Queen<\/strong>
\nThe Scriptures relate that Mardochai asked Esther to intervene with the king, but Esther explained that the king had proclaimed none could enter his inner court without being called; those who dared were immediately put to death unless the king showed his clemency by holding out his golden scepter. Mardochai reminded her, \u201cThink not that thou mayest save thy life only, because thou art in the king\u2019s house, more than all the Jews…And who knoweth whether thou are not therefore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?\u201d This passage also foreshadows Christian doctrine, for the Virgin Mary is placed above all others for the sake of all.
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\nHearing Mardochai\u2019s plea, Esther for the first time commanded her uncle, \u201cGo…gather together all the Jews…and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and danger.\u201d
\nThus Esther, her maidens and the faithful prayed and fasted. How tragically apt to our own day are these words from Esther\u2019s prayer for the people:
\n\u201c…We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies, for we have worshiped their gods. Thou are just, O Lord. And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols, they design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar…\u201d
\nIn the meantime, Aman planned Mardochai\u2019s death, preparing a gibbet upon which he would be hanged. Aman had every reason to believe he would succeed, but his final goal was the king\u2019s usurpation. However, armed with prayers and sacrifices and the king\u2019s love for her, Esther revealed her secrets to Assuerus, denounced Aman, and pled for her people.
\n\u201cBut the king being angry rose up from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king. And when the king came back…he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay…\u201d Seeing this and thinking that Aman\u2019s audacity knew no limits, the king ordered his death on the very gibbet prepared for Mardochai. Assuerus then placed Mardochai in Aman\u2019s place, making him second in authority after the king \u2013 another emphasis that Mardochai is a type of a \u201cvicar.\u201d
\nAman, as a figure type, suggests a high-level infiltration within the kingdom (the Church), which plots to overthrow the monarch (Christ the King). To accomplish this, he and others lay plans to first destroy the king\u2019s allies. Aman\u2019s act of throwing himself upon Esther implies a great offense against the Virgin, resulting in the wrath of God.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Faithful Must Stand for Their Lives<\/strong>
\nTo save the Jews, the king gave Mardochai liberty to issue a new edict commanding the Jews\u00a0\u201cto gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives.\u201d<\/strong>
\nAfter the battle of the 13th of Adar, the king was told the number of those slaughtered and then asked Esther, \u201cWhat wilt thou have me to command to be done?\u201d Esther asked that it be granted to the Jews \u201cto do tomorrow in Susan as they have done this day and that the ten sons of Aman may be hanged on gibbets.\u201d So it was that the Jews defended themselves in the capital city on both the 13th and 14th days of Adar. But in other areas of Persia,\u00a0the battle occurred only on the 13th.<\/strong>
\nFrom the human standpoint, the requests of Mardochai and Esther appear vindictive but, when understood as figure types, we better follow the meanings. The Jews represent the ecclesia of the Old Dispensation saved from annihilation. Esther\u2019s request to the king signifies the Virgin\u2019s desire to completely eradicate all of the heresies afflicting the Catholic City; the death of Aman and his ten sons suggest the defeat of the apocalyptic anti-Christ and the ten horns of the Beast.
\nThe doctrine of Mediatrix of all Graces is foreshadowed in Esther, the mediatrix of her people. Thus, Esther is a great figure type for the Virgin Mary, especially under her title\u00a0Our Lady of Fatima.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Like Esther, the Virgin of Fatima acts to save her people from annihilation, first asking that the pope, bishops and the lay faithful heed all of her requests. Unlike Esther, however, the Virgin Mary does not need our prayers and sacrifices for her own sake, but for ours.<\/p>\n

Sr. Lucia and the 13th of Adar: The Last Warning?<\/strong><\/span>
\nIn the Biblical sense, the date, day and time of Lucia\u2019s death are three great signs from heaven. As we\u2019ve already seen,\u00a0February 13 directs us to Esther, and all that it signifies. The third sign is the day of Lucia\u2019s passing, which fell just before sunset on the first Sunday in Lent – the liturgical season dedicated to prayer and self- sacrifice. Surely, Our Lady\u2019s words to the child Lucia have proven true in every aspect:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u201cJesus wishes to use you to make Me known and loved. He wants to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. To whoever embraces this devotion, I promise salvation; these souls shall be dear to God, as flowers placed by Me to adorn His throne.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThis devotion throughout the world has not yet occurred, because there has been no solemn collegial consecration of Russia to the Virgin\u2019s Immaculate Heart. For this singular, constant offense against the Virgin\u2019s request, Heaven has already warned that what awaits us is a horrific victory of the incessant Revolt against the Church and the Holy Father. The culmination is rapidly approaching.
\nCertain words of Our Lord’s to Sr. Lucia strongly indicate that the full portent of the Third Secret of Fatima may occur within ten years\u2019 time. This probable tragedy alone should inspire those who possess confidence in Our Lady of Fatima to courageously accept our collective obligation to declare the entire Fatima message throughout the Catholic world.
\nA particular warning of Our Lord\u2019s to Sr. Lucia about the collegial consecration brings to our attention the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial, France. Through this saint, Our Lord gave the world the devotion of the Nine First Fridays with its Twelve Promises. Yet there is another serious matter surrounding these apparitions to the saint, one which is very little known.
\nSt. Margaret Mary was told by the Lord that she was to “inform the King of France, ‘Eldest son of His Sacred Heart,’ that the Sacred Heart wished ‘to reign in his palace, to be painted on his standard, to be engraved on his arms,’ and that it [the Sacred Heart] will make him ‘triumphant over all the enemies of Holy Church,’ if the King obeyed Christ’s command on these matters.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0However, as history relates, \u201cEither Louis XIV never received the letter or he refused to reply. But the command still stands.\u201d
\nOn\u00a0June 17, 1689,<\/strong>\u00a0Our Lord also told the saint to tell the Catholic King Louis XIV that France must be solemnly consecrated to His Sacred Heart. This command, too, was ignored by the king and his heirs. As a result, France \u2013 first daughter of the Church \u2013 succumbed to the \u201cenemies of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

THE TIME LIMIT EXPIRED<\/strong>
\nExactly one hundred years later, on June 17, 1789,<\/strong>\u00a0the godless \u201cThird Estate\u201d declared itself a national assembly, lawlessly stripping the reigning Catholic monarch (Louis XVI) of his authority. Thus the Reign of Terror went into full motion; the king, his queen, and other innocents were martyred. Due to the ravenous \u201cMademoiselle Guillotine\u201d and her devotees, the streets literally ran ankle-deep in blood, and apostasy reigned.
\nTo think of what France – and with it, the Church – could have been spared, if only one of the reigning kings had obeyed the simple command of Our Lord!
\nChrist our King wished to establish the public consecration and devotion to His Sacred Heart in order to save France, “First Daughter of the Church,” and with it, Christendom. As we now know through the apparitions to Sr. Lucia of Fatima, the Sacred Heart also wills the collegial consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary – this time to save the entire world from the punishments it deserves for its many sins.
\nOur Lord also wishes to have the whole world acknowledge that Russia and the world will be saved by the collegial consecration, so that the Immaculate Heart of His Mother will honored beside His Own.
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\nIF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS<\/strong>
\nIn briefly reviewing the tragic history of the French Revolution, especially the fates of the Catholic monarchs and thousands of innocents, we fully understand how the Lord’s apparitions and requests at Paray-le-Monial are linked to Our Lady’s requests at Fatima.
\nOn July 13, 1917, Our Lady said to the child Lucia:\u00a0\u201c…I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. 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. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. … In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she will be converted, and an era of peace will be granted to the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>
\nEleven years, eleven months later –\u00a0on June 13, 1929<\/strong>\u00a0– Our Lady appeared to Sr. Lucia, saying:\u00a0\u201cThe moment has come when God asks the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means.\u201d<\/strong>
\nTwo years passed, but Sr. Lucia\u2019s endeavors proved fruitless. Those with the authority to fulfill the command would not comply.
\nIn\u00a0August 1931<\/strong>, Our Lord Himself spoke to Sr. Lucia, referring to His command for the collegial consecration of Russia. By the choice of God’s own words, He left no doubt that the request of His Mother was also His own command and Will:
\n\u201cMake it known to My ministers that given they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution of My request, they will follow him into misfortune. It will never be too late to have recourse to Jesus and Mary.”<\/strong><\/span>
\nWith only the release of the Third Secret Vision (which did not include Our Lady\u2019s words elucidating it), Our Lord’s warning to Sr. Lucia in 1931 makes itself tragically clear…
\nLike the Kings of France<\/strong>\u00a0who disobeyed the heavenly King\u2019s command by delaying the solemn consecration of France for 100 years, the Lord\u2019s ministers who do the same in regard to the collegial consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary\u00a0\u201cwill follow the French king into misfortune.\u201d<\/strong>
\nLike the countless numbers who also followed the King of France and his family “into misfortune” by their deaths at the guillotine, the Third Secret Vision of Fatima makes it clear that, “if my (Our Lady’s) requests are not heard,” a “bishop in white\u201d (generally understood to be the pope) will die at the hands of soldiers who bear both guns and arrows, followed by a long line of faithful Catholics from all states in life.
\nIn regard to the long-awaited collegial consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart, is it not possible that Our Lord was also telling us that, \u201clike the King of France,\u201d He will again allow exactly 100 years for His ministers to completely obey Him? If so, the 100 years conclude in less than 10 years \u2013 on July 13, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAccording to many witness statements, after a downfall of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disk in the sky. It was said to be significantly less bright than normal, and cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the shadows on the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to have careened towards the earth in a zigzag pattern, frightening some of those present who thought it meant the end of the world. Some witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became “suddenly and completely dry.”
\nEstimates of the number of witnesses range from 30,000-40,000 by Avelino de Almeida, writing for the Portuguese newspaper O S\u00e9culo, to 100,000, estimated by Dr. Joseph Garrett, professor of natural sciences at the University of Coimbra, both of whom were present that day. The miracle was attributed by believers to Our Lady of F\u00e1tima, an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three young shepherd children in 1917, as having been predicted by the three children on 13 July, 19 August, and 13 September 1917. The children reported that the Lady had promised them that she would on 13 October reveal her identity to them and provide a miracle “so that all may believe.”
\nAccording to these reports, the miracle of the sun lasted approximately ten minutes. The three children also reported seeing a panorama of visions, including those of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of Saint Joseph blessing the people.<\/p>\n

Book of Heaven – April 7, 1929<\/strong>
\nJesus kept silent, and I said to Him: \u2018My Love, You have told me many times that one who lives in your Divine Will is a sister to all created things. I want to see whether my sister light recognizes me. And do You know how? If, in looking at it (the sun), it does not dazzle my sight.\u2019
\nAnd Jesus: \u201cCertainly it will recognize you. Try and you will see.\u201d
\nI looked straight into the center of the sphere of the sun, and the light seemed to caress my pupil, but without dazzling me, in such a way that I was able to look into its center, at its great sea of light. How clear and beautiful it was. How true it is that it symbolizes the infinite, endless sea of light of the Divine Fiat. I said: \u2018Thank you, oh Jesus, for letting me be recognized by my sister light.\u2019 And Jesus resumed His speaking: \u201cMy daughter, even from the breath is one who lives in my Will recognized by all Creation, because each created thing feels in that creature the power of the Fiat, and the supremacy which God gave her over the whole Creation……
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\nThe Third Secret of Fatima<\/strong><\/p>\n

\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffcOn\u00a0May 13, 2000,<\/strong>\u00a0Pope John Paul II was present in Fatima to preside over the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Here are excerpts from his homily:
\n“\u2018Father, … to you I offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children\u2019 (Mt 11: 25). With these words, dear brothers and sisters, Jesus praises the heavenly Father for his designs; he knows that no one can come to him unless he is drawn by the Father (cf. Jn 6: 44); therefore he praises him for his plan and embraces it as a son: \u2018Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will\u2019 (Mt 11: 26).\u00a0You were pleased to reveal the kingdom to the merest children.<\/strong>
\n“According to the divine plan, \u2018a woman clothed with the sun\u2019 (Rv 12: 1) came down from heaven to this earth to visit the privileged children of the Father. She speaks to them with a mother\u2019s voice and heart: she asks them to offer themselves as victims of reparation, saying that she was ready to lead them safely to God. And behold, they see a light shining from her maternal hands which penetrates them inwardly, so that they feel immersed in God just as \u2014 they explain \u2014 a person sees himself in a mirror.<\/p>\n

The Third Secret of Fatima<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although scheduled to be revealed in the nineteen-sixties, the Vatican waited until the year 2000 to disclose the third part\u00a0of the Fatima secret. Following is Lucia’s account of the Third Secret.
\n“We saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand… it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand. Pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’. And\u00a0we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0We had the impression that it was the Holy Father. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious were going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks… Before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and, half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers… and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people… Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.”
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