The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on 13 July 1917.

(Detailing both the vision and the message.)

I write in obedience to you, my God, who commands me to do so through his Excellency, the Bishop of Leiria, and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

(visual)
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. In a manner similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it, was a bishop dressed in white. We had the impression that it was the Holy Father. Other bishops, priests, men and women religious, were 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 bark. Before reaching there, the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins, half trembling with a halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow as 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

(audible)
"Don't worry, dear child, I am the Mother of God speaking to you and begging you to proclaim in my name the following message to the entire world. In doing this, you will meet with great hostility. But be steadfast in the faith and you will overcome this hostility. Listen, and remember well what I say to you.

Men must become better. They must implore the remission of the sins which they have committed and will continue to commit.

You ask me for a miraculous sign so that all may understand the words in which, through you, I address mankind. This miracle you have just seen was the Great Miracle of the Sun. Everyone has seen it - believers, and unbelievers, country and city dwellers, scholars and journalists, laymen and priests. And now, in my name, it is proclaimed:

A great punishment shall come to all mankind, not as yet today, nor even tomorrow, but near the second half of the twentieth century. What I have already made known at LaSalette through the children Melanie and Maximin, I repeat today before you.

Mankind has not developed as God expected; mankind has been sacrilegious and has trampled underfoot the gifts which were given it.

There is no order in anything. Even in the highest positions, it is Satan who governs and decides how affairs are to be conducted. He will even know how to find his way to the highest positions in the Church. He will succeed in sowing confusion in the minds of the great scholars who invent arms with which half of mankind can be destroyed in a few minutes. He will bring the mighty ones under his thumb and make them manufacture armament in bulk.

If mankind does not refrain, I shall be forced to let fall my Son's arm. If those at the top in the world and in the Church do not oppose these acts, it is I who shall do so, and I shall pray God my Father to visit His Justice on men. It is then that God will punish men more harshly and more severely than he punished them by the flood, and the great and powerful shall perish thereby, as well as the small and weak.

There will also come a time of the hardest trials for the Church. Cardinals will be against cardinals and bishops against bishops. Satan will put himself in their midst. In Rome there will also be big changes. What is rotten will fall, and what will fall must not be maintained. The Church will be darkened and the world plunged into confusion.

The big, big war will happen near the second half of the Twentieth Century. Then fire and smoke will fall from the sky and the waters of the oceans will be turned into steam - hurling their foam towards the sky, and all that is standing will be overthrown.

Millions and more millions of men will lose their lives from one hour to the next and the living will envy the dead. There will be tribulation wherever the eye can see and misery over all the earth and desolation in all countries.

The time is continually approaching, the abyss is growing wider, and there is no end. The good will die with the wicked, the big with the small, the princes of the Church with their faithful, and the sovereigns of the world with their subjects. Satan's henchmen will then be the only sovereigns on earth.

This will be a time which neither king nor emperor, cardinal nor bishop, is expecting. But it will come, nevertheless, in accordance with my Father's plans, to punish and avenge.

Later, however, when those who survive all things are still alive, God and His glory will once more be invoked and will once more be served as He was so long ago, when the world had not yet been corrupted.

I call on all true imitators of my Son, Jesus Christ; on all true Christians and latter-day apostles. The Time Of Times is coming and the End Of All Ends if mankind is not converted and if this conversion does not come from above, from the directors of the world and the directors of the Church. But woe, woe if this conversion does not come about and if all remains as it is, it all becomes even worse.

Go, my child, and proclaim it! I shall remain always by your side, to help you."

This is an extract from the Third Secret of Fatima and not the complete text of the original message as the Mother of God revealed it on the 13th of October, 1917 to the then-small visionary, Lucia, now a departed cloistered Carmelite nun who lived in a convent in Coimbra, Portugal. This extract is being circulated presently in diplomatic circles, to no effect.

"The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres. Churches and altars will be sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord."

- Our Lady of Akita, Japan

"How I warned and warned that Satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, my child, is that Satan would enter into my Son's Church."

- Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978