ANTONIO BORELLI MACHADO was professor of moral philosophy at
the Sacred Heart College in São
Paulo. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Polytechnic School of the
University of São Paulo and he worked in that profession for fifteen years.
Following that, he has dedicated his time entirely to the Brazilian Society for
the Defence of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). He is currently head of the
Brazilian TFP’s Commission of Readers, its department for research and
documentation, which analyses, summarises and catalogues more than four hundred
periodicals in thirteen languages from twenty-five countries, and which
maintains a specialised library on current doctrinal subjects.
He is a contributor to the
prestigious monthly cultural magazine Catolicismo, which circulates
throughout Brazil. He has most distinguished himself as the author of the book The
Apparitions and Message of Fatima According to the Manuscripts of Sister Lucia.
This is a thoroughly documented and incisive study of the revelations of the
Blessed Virgin Mary to the three little shepherds Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco
in the Cova da Iria in 1917, a study that has been of great interest to
scholars as well as to the general public.
The book has been translated into
eighteen languages and published in numerous editions in twenty-two countries.
Over thirty seven million copies have been distributed worldwide.
Dr. Borelli has spoken at
international forums on Fatima, such as the Luci sull’Est/Lepanto Cultural
Association conference in Rome in 1998. And his articles and interviews have
featured in various magazines and newspapers.
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