Is there a 4th secret of Fatima?

For the past two Fridays we have given you the three secrets of Fatima, and this time an anonymous sender sent me a magazine with an article entitled “The Fourth Secret of Fatima” by a Catholic author Antonio Socci. It was for me the most comprehensive dissertation about that famous event on the apparition of our Blessed Virgin Mary at the Cova de Iria in Portugal in October 13,1917 before the three children.

As we have already discussed the two secrets, which we all know prophesied World War II and the end of Communism in Russia, we wrote separately on the 3rd Secret as it was kept in a Vatican vault only to be opened in the 60’s. Yet when Pope John XXIII read the 3rd secret, he decided to send the sealed envelope back to the Holy Office and had it “quarantined” so it won’t be revealed to the public so it won’t cause any panic.

As writer Antonio Socci also wrote, Pope Paul VI also read the sealed envelope, but decided that it contained nothing that wasn’t already written in the Bible, specifically in Revelations. Hence these Popes never obeyed Mama Mary’s message to the children … when she said, “If Russia is not consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, she will spread her errors.” Since these Popes never consecrated Russia, Communism spread to the end of World War II and ignited the Korean War, the Vietnam wars and all the other conflagrations, thanks to the USSR, which entered a “Cold War” with the United States of America and its NATO allies vs. the Warsaw Pact countries.

So finally it was the turn of Pope John Paul II to read the 3rd Secret of Fatima on July 18, 1981. Pope John Paul II requested this after his assassination attempt in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981. His first thoughts were to immediately do the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This was supposedly done on Mar. 25, 1984, although there was some debate whether it was done properly in communion with the bishops all over the Catholic world.

Pope John Paul II wanted to read the 3rd Secret (although he was already told about its contents years before) because it was supposedly linked to his assassination attempt. So once more allow me to reprint the 3rd Secret for your appreciation, which the Vatican revealed on June 26, 2000.

“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 steps, 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 Angles each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with its sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.” So the question is, whether the man in white was Pope John Paul II?

Writer Socci says that if it was Pope John Paul II, then the prophesies of Fatima has already been fulfilled. But many analysts insist that in the 3rd Secret, the Pope was actually killed, while Pope John Paul II says it was the Blessed Virgin Mary herself who “deflected” the bullet fired by Ali Agca in St. Peter’s Square, hence his life was spared and he lived through that ordeal. So if the Pope in the 3rd Secret wasn’t Pope John Paul II, then Socci asked, “Who then was the Blessed Virgin Mary referring to?”

Write Socci insists that the 3rd Secret contains two texts, and since the first text that we have reprinted here is already out … he thinks that part of the 3rd Secret that is still unrevealed has yet to be given to the public. This is why he calls it the 4th Secret of Fatima. He concluded that the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II was not contained in the 3rd Secret of Fatima but nonetheless it was also prophesied by the Madonna on earlier apparitions of Mama Mary in Rue du Bac in 1830 and La Salette on Sept.1846. Now does this 4th Secret contain the natural disaster the world is now suffering?

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