1st & 2nd secret Of Fatima
                      An English translation Of Sr. Lucia's naration

                   ... This will entail my speaking about the secret, and thus answering the first
                    question.

                    What is the secret? It seems to me that I can reveal it, since I already have
                    permission from Heaven to do so. God's representatives on earth have
                    authorized me to do this several times and in various letters, one of which,
                    I believe, is in your keeping. This letter is from Father José Bernardo
                    Gonçalves, and in it he advises me to write to the Holy Father, suggesting,
                    among other things, that I should reveal the secret. I did say something
                    about it. But in order not to make my letter too long, since I was told to
                    keep it short, I confined myself to the essentials, leaving it to God to
                    provide another more favourable opportunity.

                    In my second account I have already described in detail the doubt which
                    tormented me from 13 June until 13 July, and how it disappeared
                    completely during the Apparition on that day.

                    Well, the secret is made up of three distinct parts, two of which I am now
                    going to reveal.

                    The first part is the vision of hell.

                    Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the
                    earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like
                    transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating
                    about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued
                    from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling
                    back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium,
                    and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and
                    made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their
                    terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black
                    and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be
                    grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us
                    by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. Otherwise, I
                    think we would have died of fear and terror.

                    We then looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so kindly and so sadly:

                    “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them,
                    God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If
                    what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be
                    peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God,
                    a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see
                    a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given
                    you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means
                    of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To
                    prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my
                    Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First
                    Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there
                    will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world,
                    causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred;
                    the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be
                    annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father
                    will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of
                    peace will be granted to the world”.