The secrets

By Jon Dougherty

The first secret was a vision of hell, together with the prophesies
of World War II, the rise of communism, and the eventual triumph of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary:

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.

The second secret involves the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary:

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.

The third secret, released June 26, appears to be an attempt to
persuade people to repent of sins and seek God’s forgiveness:

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.

Jon Dougherty

Jon E. Dougherty is a Missouri-based political science major, author, writer and columnist. Follow him on Twitter. Read more of Jon Dougherty's articles here.