The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da                     Iria-Fatima,      on 13 July 1917.
An English Translation Of Sr. Lucia's Letter.

                    I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through
                    his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother
                    and mine.

                    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!'. 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. 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.

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