Day of the Virgin of Fatima: What were the three prophecies she left in her apparitions

Like each May 13th, this Saturday we celebrate the Day of the Virgin of Fatima. emblematic figure of the church, the Our Lady of Fatima has a history related to appearances occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century in a small town in Portugal.

In this sense, through these apparitions, the Virgin also departed three prophecies.

He May 13, 1917when three shepherd children -Lucía, Jacinta and Francisco- taking care of their flock in Cova da Iria, Portugal, they saw lightning on a bright day.

As they stood guard over their sheep, they were able to see a cloud that a woman was standing on, with a glow that looked like it was from the sun.

In her hands, which were in prayer position, she was holding a rosary of grains shining like pearls and a silver cross. Lucia and Jacinta saw it and heard it; Francisco could only see her.

From that first time until the month of October, the Virgin appeared to the shepherds of Fatima on the 13th of each month and he left to the little ones his three secrets or prophecies. Francisco and Jacinta Martos died soon after; Lucía Santos was in charge of transmitting them.

Lucia entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites, became a nun, and revealed in 1941 the first two secrets.

Only the Potatoes they had access to third prophecy Until St. John Paul II made it known in May 2000: what Lucía had written in 1944 was revealed 83 years later. Sister Lucia died at the age of 97 on February 13, 2005.

Day of the Virgin of Fatima: what were the three prophecies

The three messages they were considered premonitory and, according to the Vatican, its content has already been fulfilled.

St. John Paul II stated that the visions of the Virgin of Fatima were “private revelations intended to help you live more fully according to Christ’s teachings”.

One of the prophecies is related to Russian revolution. The year was 1917 and since February events were taking place in that country which ended with the October Revolution and, subsequently, with the formation of the Soviet Union.

“If my requests are heeded, Russia will convert and have peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecutions of the Church”said the Virgin to the shepherd children after asking that both Russia and all of humanity consecrate themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Another prophecy he spoke of new times of war once World War I was over (which was going on at the time and finished in November 1918) and visualized the Second World War.

“The war will end, but if they do not stop offending God, another worse one will begin under Pius XI… for his crimes through war, hunger and the persecution of the Church and the Holy Father” was the message.

He last secret reported to Pope St. John Paul II and anticipated the attempted attack by the Supreme Pontiff on May 13, 1981 when he was shot in St. Peter’s Square.

it was the same Juan Pablo who claimed to have survived the attack thanks to the intercession of the Virgin Mary and the prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima who predicted this would happen.

Such was the devotion of Juan Pablo, that in 1984 he donated the bullet from which they extracted Shrine of Fatima and which today is seen there set in the crown of the image.