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The Third Part of the Secret: Prophetic vision of an iminent
chastisement, an immense catastrophe and the great return of souls to God
“J.M.J.
“The third part of the secret
revealed on 13 July 1917 in the Cova da Iria – Fatima.
“I write in obedience to You my God
who commands me through His Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your
Most Holy Mother and mine.” 26
First scene: the threat of chastisement that
hangs over a sinful world.
“After
the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a
little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing,
it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but
they died out in contact with the splendour 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!’”
Second
scene: a terrible catastrophe befalls the world, leaving it half ruined. The
cataclysm engulfs victims from all social classes, even His Holiness the Pope.
“And we
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 (we had the
impression that it was the Holy Father). Other bishops, priests, men and women
religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross
of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark. 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 who fired
bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the
other bishops, priests, men and women religious, and various lay people of
different ranks and positions.”
Third scene: the great return of humanity to
God.
“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. 27
Tuy-3-1-1944.”
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