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.
“J.M.J.
The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13
July
1917.
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.
Tuy-3-1-1944”.
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