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Photos Bible Rad io Program The Third Secret of Fatima was to be revealed in 1960: "because the blessed Virg in wishes it so." (Sister Lucy) "I gave Lucy the Revelation as a temporary secretas I revealed [the Third Secret] to you on two occasions. Make a concerted effort to bring its entirety to Our c hildren on earth. The hierarchy have not listened to My counselthirty-two years l ost in indecision and fear of exposure. The Faith is shattered for many." (locut ion from Our Lady to Veronica Lueken, April 29, 1992)

Our Lady of Fatima said, "If My requests are heeded, many souls will be saved and there will be peace." Among Her requests was that the Third Secret of Fatim a be revealed to the world no later than 1960. In the words of Brother Michael o f the Holy Trinity (Little Brothers of the Sacred Heart), even if we know what t he themes of this Secret are, "nothing is so important, so necessary, so urgent as to make known the text in its limpid truth, in its full prophetic richness, i n its divine profundity and transcendence. For between everything we could say a bout it, and the very words of the Queen of Prophets, there is of course an abys s!!" In 1946, Sister Lucy was asked when the Third Secret would be revealed to th e world, and without hesitation she said, "In 1960." In 1955 Cardinal Ottaviani asked her why it was not to be opened before 1960. She told him, "because then i t will seem clearer (mais claro)." Sister Lucy had made the Bishop of Fatima-Lei ria promise that the Secret would be read to the world at her death, but in no e vent later than 1960, "because the blessed Virgin wishes it so." And from Canon Barthas: "Moreover, it [the Third Secret] will soon be known, since Sister Lucy affirms that Our Lady wills that it can be published beginning in 1960." In 1960: Many reliable witnesses, including Our Ladys message at Bayside, allow us to establish the fact with certitude, that the Third Secret was to be revealed to t he world no later than 1960, by express wish of Our Lady of Fatima: Cardinal Cerejeira: From the two parts of the Secret already revealed, the third part has not been made known, but it has been written and placed in a sealed env elope and will be opened in 1960, we know enough to enable us to conclude that t he salvation of the world, in this extraordinary movement of history, has been p laced by God in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. (Cardinal Cerejeira, September 7, 1 946, at the closing of the Marian Congress of Campinas, Brazil) Canon Galamba: When the bishop refused to open the letter, Lucy made him promise that it would definitely be opened and read to the world either at her death or in 1960, whichever would come first. (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr. J oaquin Alonso, Spanish Edition, pp. 46-47) Fr. Jongen: Fr. Jongen interrogated Sister Lucy on February 3-4, 1946: You have already made know two parts of the Secret. When will the time arrive for the thi rd part? I communicated the third part in a letter to the Bishop of Leiria, she ans wered. But it cannot be made known before 1960. (Review Mediatrice et Reine, Octob er 1946, pp. 110-112)

John Haffert: At the bishops house (in Leiria), I sat at the table on his right, with the four Canons. During that first dinner, Canon Jose Galamba de Oliveira t urned to me when the bishop had left the room momentarily and asked: Why dont you ask the bishop to open the Secret? Endeavoring not to show my ignorance concernin g Fatimawhich at that time was almost completeI simply looked at him without expre ssion. He continued: "The bishop can open the Secret. He doesnt have to wait unti l 1960. (Dear Bishop! John Haffert, AMI 1981, pp. 3-4) Cardinal Cerejeira: In February 1960 the Patriarch of Lisbon reported the direct ions which the Bishop of Leiria has passed on to him on the subject of the Third S ecret: Bishop da Silva enclosed (the envelope sealed by Lucy) in another envelope on which he indicated that the letter had to be opened in 1960 by himself, Bish op Jose Correia da Silva, if he was still alive, or if not, by the Cardinal Patr iarch of Lisbon. (Novidades, February 24, 1960, quoted by La Documentation cathol ique, June 19, 1960, col. 751) Canon Barthas: during his conversations with Sister Lucy on October 17-18, 1946, he had the opportunity to question her on the Third Secret. He writes: When will the third element of the Secret be revealed to us? Already in 1946, to this ques tion Lucy and the Bishop of Leiria answered me uniformly, without hesitation and without comment: In 1960. And when I pushed my audacity so far as to ask why it w as necessary to wait until then, the only response I received from either one wa s: Because the Blessed Virgin wishes it so. (Barthas, Fatima, merveille du XXe sie cle, p. 83. Fatima-editions, 1952) Canon Galamba: The third part of the Secret, written down by Sister Lucy, was sea led by the hands of His Grace the Bishop of Leiria and will be opened either aft er the seers death or at the latest in 1960 (ou apos a morte da vidente ou o mais tardar em 1960). (Fatima, altar do mundo, Vol. II, p. 147) The Armstrongs: On May14, 1953, Lucy received a visit from the Armstrongs, who w ere able to question her on the third Secret. In their account published in 1955 , they confirmed that the third Secret had to be opened and divulged in 1960. (A. O. Armstrong, Fatima, pilgrimage to peace, The Worlds Work, Kingswood, Surrey, 19 55) Cardinal Ottaviani: On May 17, 1955, Cardinal Ottaviani, Pro-Prefect of the Holy Office, came to the Carmel of Saint Teresa at Coimbra. He interrogated Lucy on the third Secret; and in his conference of 1967 recalled: The message was not to be opened before 1960. I asked Sister Lucy, Why this date? She answered, Because th en it will seem clearer (mais claro). (La Documentation catholique, March 19, 196 7, col. 542) Cardinal Tisserant: On October 13, 1956, Cardinal Tisserant, Secretary of the Sa cred Congregation for the Eastern Church, came as a papal legate to bless Domus P acis at Fatima, the international headquarters of the Blue Army. During his homil y he declared: A part of this message must remain hidden until 1960; but a part h as been made public in 1942 by the ecclesiastical authorities (quoted by G. Renaul t, Fatima, p. 225, Plon, 1957) Father Schweigl: In November 1956, Father Schweigl titled a chapter of his littl e work, Towards the Year 1960 and he writes, The third part of the message must rema in secret until 1960. (Fatima e la conversione della Russia, p. 13, Rome, 1956)

Father Joaquin Alonso, official archivist of Fatima: Other bishops also spokeand w ith authorityabout the year 1960 as the date indicated for opening the famous let ter. Thus, when the then titular Bishop of Tiava, and Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon asked Lucy when the Secret was to be opened, he always received the same answer : in 1960. (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr. Joaquin Alonso, Spanish Edi tion, p. 46)

Father Joaquin Alonso: When Don Jose, the first Bishop of Leiria and Sister Lucy agreed that the letter was to be opened in 1960, they obviously meant that its c ontents should be made public for the good of the Church and the world. (ibid., p . 54) Bishop Venancio: I think that the letter will not be opened before 1960. Sister L ucy had asked that it should not be opened before her death, or not before 1960. We are now in 1959 and Sister Lucy is in good health. (La Verdad sobre el Secret o de Fatima, Fr. Joaquin Alonso, Spanish Edition, p. 46) Father Fuentes: Father Fuentes interviewed Sister Lucy on December 26, 1957 and told him: Father, the Most Holy Virgin is very sad because no one has paid attent ion to Her Message, neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on their way but without giving any importance to Her Message I am still not able to give any other details because it is still a secret. According to the will of the Most H oly Virgin, only the Holy Father and the Bishop of Fatima are permitted to know the Secret, but they have chosen not to know it so that they would not be influe nced. This is the third part [third Secret] of the Message of Our Lady which wil l remain secret until 1960. (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr. Joaquin Al onso, Spanish Edition, p. 103-104) F. Stein: The testimonies which have announced the revelation of the Secret for 1 960 are of such weight and so numerous that in our opinion, even if the ecclesia stical authorities of Fatima [in 1959 the experts themselves were still unaware that Rome had taken the Secret from the Bishop of Leiria over two years previous ly] had not yet resolved to publish the Secret in 1960, they would now see thems elves forced to do so by the circumstances. (Mensagem de Fatima, July-August, 195 9) Father Dias Coelho: If it were only a question of much ado about nothing, this wo uld already be sufficient reason for dealing with the matter, at least with the purpose of quashing these rumors. But in reality testimony on the existence of t he third part of the Secret of Fatima (the first and second part having been pub lished already in 1942) is so weighty, coming from persons like Don Jose, Bishop of Leiria, his successor, Don Venancio, Cardinal Cerejeira, and Cardinal Tisser ant, that it leaves no doubt. Also, we can use, as an unquestionable fact, this assertion of Dr. Galamba de Oliveira (in 1953) in Fatima, Altar do Mundo: The thi rd part of the Secret was sealed in the hands of His Grace the Bishop of Leiria, and will be opened either after the seers death or at the latest in 1960. (LHomme N ouveau, No. 269, November 22, 1959)

Canon Barthas: "We know that there remains an element still reserved, of which i t is useless to guess the content. Moreover, it will soon be known, since Lucy a

ffirms that Our Lady wills that it can be published beginning in 1960." (The Who le Truth About Fatima, Vol. III, Brother Michael of the Holy Trinity, p. 500, fo otnote 33) Father Joaquin Alonso, noting the effects of the disobedience of the hierarchy n ot to disclose the third Secret in 1960, as indicated by Our Lady of Fatima: Simp le folks waited up until May 13 [1960] when it was believed that the revelation [of the third Secret] would be made. Later, people felt a profound disenchantmen t and disappointment which did great harm to devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, bot h inside and outside Portugal. (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr. Joaquin Alonso, Spanish Edition, p. 46) All testimonies and statements reveal clearly and with certitude, that Heav en (not Sister Lucy!) but Heaven, desired and willed that Our Ladys third Secret of Fatima was to be revealed to the whole world no later than 1960. Sister Lucy writes the Third Secret In 1941 Sister Lucy had written her third and fourth memoirs, writing the first two parts of the great Secret of Fatima. In her third memoir Sister Lucy has mad e it clear that "the secret is made up of three parts, two of which I am going t o reveal." In her fourth memoir she restated the first two parts, leaving out on ce again "that part of the Secret which I am not permitted to reveal at present. " Yet in the fourth memoir Sister Lucy did reveal one additional fragment of the Secret which had not appeared in the third memoir: Before the "O my Jesus", and after the end of the second part of the Secret, we find this curious sentence, obviously deprived of its context: "Em Portugal se conservera sempre o doguema d a fe." - "In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved." It is i nteresting to note that the first two parts of the Secret do not mention the sub ject of the loss of dogma at all. In September of 1944, Bishop da Silva suggested that Sister Lucy write down the text of the Third Secret, but she said that she could not take that responsibili ty upon herself without a formal, written order. Even when the order was given a month later by her bishop, she was unable to commit to writing this Third Secre t. Sister Lucy, who had lived a life of obedience to her superiors, was not phys ically able to obey the command. She attributed this paralysis to a preternatura l cause.[1] According to Frere Michel in his monumental book on the Third Secret : "Having received the formal order to write down the Secret in mid-October, two months later Sister Lucy still had not done so. This shows how much the writ ing of this text made her tremble. Indeed as she took up her pen, she found her incapable of writing. In effect, as she asked Don Garcia for advice she added th at she had wanted to obey several times, that she had sat down to write, without being able to. This mysterious impediment still existed on December 24, 1943, w here she makes it clear in a letter to Don Garcia that this phenomenon was not due to natural causes. "...Undoubtedly we see it as Satan s final outburst against the messenger o f the Immaculate One, guessing what a great weapon this prophecy would be, once it was set down in black and white, against his domination and his claim of bein g able to infiltrate the very heart of the Church...thus the seer s great trial was the measure of how great was the event about to be accomplished." [2] Finally, on January 2, 1944, Sister Lucy was able to write down the text of the Secret in the chapel at the convent of Tuy. According to the account of Cano n Martins dos Reis, she was able to proceed only "after Our Lady appeared to her to tell her to write the famous secret ... in conformity with what had been ask ed of her."[3]

On January 9, 1944, Sister Lucy wrote to Bishop da Silva to tell him that the Th ird Secret of Fatima had been written down and placed in a sealed envelope. On J une 17, 1944, the envelope was delivered to Bishop da Silva, by Sister Lucy s bi shop confessor in Tuy. The five month delay had resulted from Sister Lucy s unwi llingness to entrust the envelope to anyone but a bishop. Bishop da Silva made t he famous promise to Sister Lucy that the envelope would be unsealed and the Sec ret revealed not later than 1960. Our Lady, Queen of the angels and saints, and our spiritual Mother, has our eternal salvation at heart more than anyone we will ever know. Let us pray that the real Third Secret will soon be revealed, for the glory of God and the salvat ion of souls! "How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the h ierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son s Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978 Wood Made Flesh will tell the real story.