BIOGRAPHIES

The Author

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.