These form the content of the third part of the Secret.

In the period preceding the great triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, terrible things are to happen. ‘ In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved’: The phrase most clearly implies a critical state of Faith, which other nations will suffer, that is to say, a crisis of Faith whereas Portugal will preserve its Faith. …”įather Alonso, the official Fatima archivist had this to say on the Third Secret: Yet, if in Portugal the true Faith will be preserved, what does that imply about the rest of the world? The Portuguese Father Messias de Coelho concluded that, “this allusion, so positive about what will happen among us, suggests to us that it will be different around us. The phrase, “In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved etc.” is a promise that the true Faith will be preserved in that country, although in its vagueness it does not state by whom. She declared to the bishop that it was not absolutely necessary to write out the text, “since in a certain manner she had said it.” Sister Lucy was very likely referring to the additional phrase she had inserted into her fourth memoir, “In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved etc.” In 1943, after having been asked by Bishop da Silva to write down the text of the Third Secret, Sister Lucy was finding the task difficult. Sister Lucy purposely inserted it into her fourth memoir to indicate to us what the final part of the Secret is about.

Sister Lucy gave us the first sentence of the Third Secret when she inserted into her fourth memoir the phrase “In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved etc.” This sentence had not appeared in her previous memoir. In her fourth memoir, which was written from October-December 1941, Sister Lucy copied the first two parts of the Secret from the text of her third memoir, but added a sentence that is not found there. She wrote, “The Secret is made up of three distinct parts, two of which I am now going to reveal.” 1 She felt that “the moment had come to reveal the first two parts of the Secret.” 2 However, she kept silent on the third part of the Secret, since she had not received Heaven’s permission to reveal it. In her third memoir, which she completed in August 1941, Sister Lucy stated that the Secret of Fatima is divided into three distinct parts, after which she recorded, for the first time, the first two parts of the Secret. (See quote in “ Published Testimony: The Bishop of Fatima (September 10, 1984)“.) In 1984 Bishop Alberto Cosme do Amaral of Fatima confirmed that the Third Secret of Fatima is not about atomic war or the end of the world, but instead concerns the Catholic Faith, and specifically the loss of that Faith throughout (at least) Europe.

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