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J.M.J.
The
third part of the secret revealed on July 13, 1917 at the
Cove de Iria – Fatima.
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 splendor 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 halted 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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