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 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 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, Spain - January 3, 1944
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