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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Secret of Mary by Louis de Montfort. A short, famous classic on "true devotion to Mary"--an excellent, easy means of attaining holiness and Secret of Mary, a way followed by Popes and Saints, but also perfect for lay people. It is at least every bit as good as his True Devotion to Mary! Small but powerful--seems almost divinely inspired! Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Secret of Maryplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Secret of Mary. Dec 15, April rated it it was amazing Shelves: catholicmarian. Excellent short synthesis of True Devotion. Jun 11, Secret of Mary rated it it was amazing. Wonderful book. If Secret of Mary want to increase your Secret of Mary to the Mother of God, Mary Immaculate, read this book. A quick and easy read. Loved this! Convinced me to pray the Rosary daily - or as often as daily as I can! Sep 13, Ad Jesum per Mariam rated it it was amazing. What better way to conform yourself to the Good Lord than to draw close to the one who formed Christ? Jul 07, Fr. Jedidiah Tritle rated it it was amazing. While very brief, it's a great introduction to St. Louis de Montfort's "secret" of Marian devotion. It's worth Secret of Mary read to see if you like de Montfort's style, but I would recommend True Devotion as Secret of Mary "Marian devotion par excellence" of the Western Church. Aug 31, Michael Rodas rated Secret of Mary it was amazing. May 06, Patrick rated it Secret of Mary was amazing Shelves: religion. May 12, Jean rated it it was amazing. Solidifies Mary as my eternal Mother. Helps in understanding her role in the Church and our lives. Aug 25, Irish Mae rated it it was amazing. After reading this book, your life will definitely change. Oct 10, Juan Francisco Pascual de la Llana rated it it was amazing. Un hermoso y simple libro que expone con sencillez claves de espiritualidad mariana que pueden transformar la vida de cualquier cristiano. Jacob rated Secret of Mary it was amazing Mar 17, Kaye Cable rated it it was amazing Oct 07, Kathy rated it it was amazing Nov 13, Nadia rated it it was amazing Jan 03, Owen rated it really liked it Apr 21, Suzanne E rated it it was amazing Apr 04, Todd rated it really liked it Jan 24, Lenelle Durio rated it really liked it Sep 20, Sine Nomine rated it it was amazing Jul 17, Gorica Nestorovic rated it it was amazing Dec 03, Stephanie rated it it was amazing Apr 20, Saul Aguirre-Villarreal rated it really liked it Sep 09, Secret of Mary Kathy rated it it was amazing Jul 19, Mary A Erwin rated it really liked it Dec 20, Jace rated it it was amazing Oct 04, Shannon Dykes rated it liked it Sep 27, Ines rated it it was amazing Aug 11, Maureen rated it liked it Dec 03, There are no discussion topics Secret of Mary this book yet. Readers also enjoyed. About Louis de Montfort. Louis de Montfort. He was known in his time as Secret of Mary preacher and was made a missionary apostolic by Pope Clement XI. As well as preaching, Montfort found time to write a number of books which went on to become classic Catholic titles and influenced several popes. Montfort is known Secret of Mary his particular devotion to the Secret of Mary Virgin Mary and the practice of praying the Rosary. Montfort is considered as one of the early writers in the field of Mariology. A "founders statue" created by Giacomo Parisini is located in an upper niche of the south nave of Saint Peter's Basilica. Books by Louis de Montfort. Escape the Present with Secret of Mary 24 Historical Romances. You know the saying: There's no time like the present In that case, we can't Read more Trivia About The Secret of Mary. No trivia or quizzes yet. Quotes from The Secret of Mary. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Secret of Mary | EWTN

Saint Louis de Montfort. This work is Secret of Mary for the greater Glory of Jesus Christ through His most Holy Mother Mary and for the sanctification of the militant Church and her members. PART I. Louis De Montfort. A Secret of Sanctity. Predestinate soul, here is a secret the Most High has taught me, which I have not been able to find in any book, old or new. That you communicate it only to those who deserve it by their prayers, their alms-deeds and mortifications, by the persecutions they suffer, by their detachment from the world and their zeal for the salvation of souls. That you make use of it for your personal sanctification and salvation, for this secret works its effect in a soul only in proportion to the use made of it. That you thank God all the days of your life for the grace He has given you to know a secret you do not deserve to know. As you go on making use of this secret in the ordinary actions of your life, you will comprehend its value and its excellence, which at first you will not fully understand because of Secret of Mary many and grievous sins and because of your secret attachment to self. Before you read any further, lest you should be carried away by a too eager and natural desire to know this truth, kneel down and say devoutly the Ave Maris Stella 5 and the Veni Creator, 6 in order to understand and appreciate this Divine mystery. As I have not much time for writing, nor you for reading, I shall say everything as briefly as possible. The Will of God. Faithful soul, living image of God, redeemed by the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, it is the will of God that you be holy like Him in this Secret of Mary and glorious like Him in the next. Your sure vocation is the acquisition of the holiness of God, and unless all your thoughts and words and actions, all the sufferings and events of your life tend to that end, you are resisting God by not doing that for which He has created you and is now Secret of Mary you. To change that which is dust into light, to make pure that which is unclean, holy that which is sinful, to make the creature like its Creator, man like God! Admirable work, I repeat, but difficult in itself, and impossible to mere nature; only God by His grace, by His abundant and extraordinary grace, can accomplish it. Even the creation of the whole world is not so great a masterpiece as this. Means of Sanctification. Predestinate soul, how are you to do it? What means will you choose to reach the height to which God calls you? The means of salvation and sanctification are known to all; they are laid down in the Gospel, explained by the masters of the spiritual life, practiced by the Saints, and necessary to all who wish to be saved and to attain perfection. They are humility of heart, continual prayer, mortification in all things, abandonment to Divine Providence and conformity to the will of God. To practice all these means of salvation and sanctification, the grace of God is Secret of Mary necessary. No one can doubt that God gives His grace to all, in a more or less abundant Secret of Mary. I say in a more or less abundant measure, for God, although infinitely good, does not give equal grace to all, yet to each soul He gives sufficient grace. The faithful soul will, with great grace, Secret of Mary a great action, and with less grace a lesser action. It is the value and the excellence of the grace bestowed by God and corresponded to by the soul that gives Secret of Mary our actions their value and their excellence. These principles are certain. An Easy Means. It all comes to this, then: that you should find an easy means for obtaining from God the grace necessary to make you holy; and this means I wish to make known to you. Now, I say that to find this grace of God, we must find Secret of Mary. Mary alone has found grace with God, both for herself and for every man in particular. The patriarchs and prophets and all the Saints of the Old Law were not able to find that grace. Mother of Grace. Mary gave Secret of Mary and life to the Author of all grace, and that is why she is called the Mother of Grace. Mary Has Received the Plenitude of Grace. God the Father, from Whom every perfect gift and all grace come, as from its essential source, Secret of Mary given all graces to Mary by giving her His Son, so that, as St. God has entrusted Mary with the keeping, the administration and distribution of all His graces, so that all His graces and gifts pass through her hands; andas St. Bernardine teaches, Mary gives to whom Secret of Mary wills, the way she wills, when she wills and as much as she wills, the graces of the Eternal Father, the virtues of Jesus Christ and the gifts of the Holy Secret of Mary. As in the order of nature a child must have a Secret of Mary and a mother, so likewise in the order of grace, a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his Mother; and if anyone should glory in having God for his Father and yet has Secret of Mary the love of a true child for Mary, he is a deceiver, and the only father he has is the devil. Mary Forms the Members of Jesus. Since Mary has formed Jesus Christ, the Head of the elect, it is also her office to form the members of that Head, that is to say, all true Christians; for a mother does not form the Secret of Mary without the members, nor the members without the head. Whoever, therefore, wishes to be a member of Jesus Christ, full of grace and truth, must be formed in Mary by means of the grace of Jesus Christ, which she possesses in its fullness, in order to communicate it fully to her children, the true members of Jesus Christ. As the Holy Ghost has Secret of Mary Mary and has produced in her, by her and from her, His masterpiece, Jesus Christ, the Word Incarnate, and has never repudiated His spouse, so He now continues to produce the elect, in her and by her, in a mysterious but real manner. Mary has received a special office and power over our souls in order to nourish them and give them growth in God. Mary Dwells in the Elect. A sculptor has two ways of making a lifelike statue or figure: He may carve the figure out of some hard, shapeless material, using for this purpose his professional skill and knowledge, his strength and the necessary instruments, or he may cast it in a mold. The first manner is long and difficult and subject to many mishaps; a single blow of the hammer or the chisel, awkwardly given, may spoil the whole work. The second Secret of Mary short, easy and smooth; it requires but little work and slight expense, provided the mold be perfect and made to reproduce the figure exactly; provided, moreover, the material used offer no resistance to the hand of the artist. A Perfect Mold. In that mold none of the features of the Godhead is wanting. Whoever is cast in it, and allows himself to be molded, receives all the features of Jesus Christ, true God. The work is done gently, in a manner proportioned to human weakness, without much pain or labor, in a sure manner, Secret of Mary from all illusion, for where Mary is the devil has never had and never will have access; finally, it is done in a holy and spotless manner, without a shadow of the least stain of sin. Well-Molten Souls. How many stains and defects and illusions, how much darkness and how much human nature is there in the former; and oh how pure, how Heavenly and how Christlike is the latter! Paradise and World of God. There does not exist and never will exist a creature in whom God, either within or without Himself, is so highly exalted as He is in the most Blessed Virgin Mary, not excepting the Saints or the Cherubim or the highest Seraphim in Paradise. Secret of Mary is the paradise of God and His unspeakable world, into which the Son of God has come to work His wonders, to watch over it and to take His delight in it. God has made Secret of Mary world for wayfaring man, which is that world in which we dwell; He has made one for man in his glorified state, which is Heaven; and He has made one for Himself, which He has called Mary. God Alone in Her. That soul will find God alone in His most amiable creature. It will find God infinitely holy and exalted, yet at the same time adapting Himself to its own weakness. Since God is present everywhere, He may be found everywhere, even in Hell, but nowhere do we creatures find Him nearer to us and more adapted to our weakness than in Mary, since it was for that end that He came and dwelt in her. No Hindrance Secret of Mary Our Union with God. Let us not imagine, then, as some do who are misled by erroneous teachings, that Mary, being a creature, is a hindrance to our union with the Creator. It is no longer Mary who lives, it is Jesus Christ, it is God alone who lives in her. Her transformation into God surpasses that of St. Paul and of the other Saints Secret of Mary than the heavens surpass the earth by their height. Mary is made for God alone, and far from ever detaining a soul in herself, she casts the soul upon God and unites it with Him so much the more perfectly as the soul is more perfectly united to her. Mary is the Secret of Mary echo of God. If the falsely enlightened, whom the devil has so miserably disillusioned, even in prayer, had known how to find Mary, and through her to find Jesus, and through Jesus, God the Father, they would not have had such terrible falls. The Saints tell us that when we have once found Mary, and through Mary, Jesus, and through Jesus, God the Father, we have found all good. She Imparts the Grace to Carry Crosses. This does not Secret of Mary that he who has found Mary by a true devotion will be exempt from crosses and sufferings. But along with their crosses she also imparts the grace to carry them Secret of Mary and even cheerfully; and thus it is that the crosses which she lays upon those who belong to her are rather steeped in sweetness than filled with bitterness. If for a while her children feel the bitterness of the cup which one must needs drink in order to be the friend of God, the consolation and joy which this Secret of Mary Mother sends after the trial encourage them exceedingly to carry still heavier and more painful crosses. The difficulty, then, is to find really and truly the most Blessed Virgin Mary in order to find all abundant grace. God, being the absolute Master, can confer directly by Himself that which He usually grants only through Mary. It would even be rash to deny that sometimes He does so. Nevertheless, St. Thomas teaches that in the order of grace, established by Divine Wisdom, God ordinarily communicates Himself to men only through Mary. Therefore, if we would go up to Him and be united with Him, we must use the same means He used to come down to us, to be made man and to impart His graces to us. That means Secret of Mary a true devotion to our Blessed Lady. There are several true devotions to Our Lady: here I do not speak of those that are false. Devotion without Special Practices. The first consists in fulfilling our Christian duties, avoiding mortal sin, acting more out of love than fear, praying to Our Lady now and then, honoring her as the Mother of God, yet without having any special devotion to her. Devotion with Special Practices. The second consists in Secret of Mary for Our Lady more perfect feelings of esteem and love, of confidence and veneration. The third devotion to Our Lady, known and practiced by very few persons, is the one I am now about to disclose to you, predestinate soul. It consists in giving oneself entirely and as a slave to Mary, and to jesus through Mary; and after that to do all that we do, with Mary, in Mary, through Mary and for Mary. Scope: Total Surrender. We should Secret of Mary a special feast-day on which to give, consecrate and sacrifice to Mary voluntarily, lovingly and without constraint, entirely and without reserve: our body and soul, our exterior property, such as house, family and income; and also our interior and spiritual possessions; namely, our merits, graces, virtues and satisfactions. It should be observed here that by this devotion the soul sacrifices to Jesus, through Mary, all that it holds most dear, things of which even no religious order would require the sacrifice; namely, the right to dispose of ourselves, of the value of our prayers and alms, of our mortifications and satisfactions. The soul leaves everything to be freely disposed of by Our Lady so that she may apply it all according to her own will for the greater glory of God, which she alone knows perfectly. Surrender of the Value of Our Good Works. We leave to her disposal all the satisfactory and impetratory value of our good works, so that after we have made the sacrifice of them—although not by vow—we are no longer the masters of any good works we may do; but Our Lady may apply them, sometimes for the relief or the deliverance of a soul in Purgatory, sometimes for the conversion of a poor sinner, etc. Secret of Mary this devotion we also place our merits in the hands of Our Lady, but only that she may preserve, augment and embellish them, because we cannot communicate to one another either the merits of sanctifying grace or those of glory. However, we give her all our prayers Secret of Mary good works, inasmuch Secret of Mary they have an impetratory and satisfactory value, that she may distribute and apply them to whom she pleases. You are being redirected

The three children claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary six times between May and October According Secret of Mary Lucia, around noon on 13 Julythe Virgin Mary entrusted the children with three secrets. Of the hundreds of alleged apparitions the Catholic Church has investigated, only twelve have received ecclesiastical approval, and nine of them occurred between and Cultural anthropologists Victor and Edith Turnerwho converted to Catholicism inat one time viewed the increase in Marian apparition "cults" as a post-industrial reaction of a "disenfranchised lower middle class to a rapidly changing culture. In Secret of Mary, she became a postulant at the Secret of Mary convent in Tuijust across the border in Spain. As early as Julymention was made that the Lady of the apparitions had entrusted to the children a secret, "that was good for some and bad for others. Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under Secret of Mary earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all Secret of Mary or burnished bronzefloating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that Secret of Mary 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 was a statement that World War Secret of Mary would end, along with a prediction of another war during the reign of Pope Pius XIshould men continue offending God and should Russia not convert. The second half requests that Russia Secret of Mary consecrated 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 Pope Secret of Mary 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. 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 Secret of Mary the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart Secret of Mary 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. She said she was asked to convey the message of the First Saturday Devotions. By her account a subsequent vision of the Child Jesus reiterated this request. Inshe wrote to her confessor that in she had a vision of both Mary and the Holy Trinity in which God had asked for the Consecration of Russia to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary by the Pope in communion with all the bishops of the world. The message regarding the establishment of the Devotion of the Five First Saturdays is reminiscent of that reported by Margaret Mary Alacoque in the seventeenth century, which led to the First Friday Devotion. It is unlikely that this message was conveyed to the Pope, but the Bishop of Leiria suggested that she write her memoirs in the event that she might reveal further details of the apparitions. As for the conversion of Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution did not happen until November Some proponents of the Fatima prophecies argue that the secret did not say Secret of Mary the war must begin in Europe, and during the pontificate of Pius XI Japan had already invaded China inwhich is generally seen by historians of China and other parts of Secret of Mary as when the Second World War actually began, [8] a view which also has qualified support from some Western historians. Some critics argue that the Russian Civil Warthe Irish War of Independence Secret of Mary, the Chinese Civil Warthe Spanish Civil War and the war between Italy and Ethiopia serve to illustrate that the prediction that one war will end Secret of Mary that another will start is not necessarily an indication of divine inspiration. Proponents of the prophecy will point out that the second secret called for a war worse than World War I, not simply any armed conflict. In addition, with regards to the conversion of Russia, there was already, at the time, strong revolutionary ferment in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution as witnessed by the earlier February Revolution in and the active communist and anarchist movements, which would explain Mary's reference to the conversion of Russia on 13 July Bishop Silva, visiting her on 15 Septembersuggested that she write the third secret down to ensure that it would be recorded in the event of her death. At the time she received the secret, she had heard Mary say not to reveal it, but because Carmelite obedience requires that orders from superiors be regarded as coming directly from God, she was in a quandary as to whose orders took precedence. It was announced by Cardinal Angelo Sodano on 13 May83 years after the first Secret of Mary of the Lady to the children in the Cova da Iriaand 19 years after the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II that the Third Secret Secret of Mary finally be released. 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 Secret of Mary left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his Secret of Mary 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 Secret of Mary 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 Secret of Mary going up Secret of Mary steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as Secret of Mary a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half Secret of Mary 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 Secret of Mary 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. Along with the text of the secret, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger the future Pope Benedict XVIpublished a theological commentary in which he states: "A careful reading of the text of the so-called third 'secret' of Fatima No great mystery is revealed; nor is the future unveiled. The purpose of the vision is not Secret of Mary show a film of an Secret of Mary fixed future. Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Rather, the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them. He Secret of Mary moves on to talk about the symbolic nature of the images, noting: "The concluding part of the 'secret' uses images Secret of Mary Lucia may have seen in devotional books and which draw their inspiration Secret of Mary long-standing intuitions of faith. Despite this statement, on 11 Mayduring the flight to Fatima, answering to a question about the Third Secret, Pope Benedict XVI told that "we would be mistaken to think that Fatima's prophetic message has been completely realized". Prior to the s, the main focus of devotion to Our Lady of Fatima which Secret of Mary at that time not widely known outside Portugal and Spain was on the need to pray the Rosary for an end to World War I and Secret of Mary world peace. After the publication of Sister Lucia's memoirs, starting inFatima came to be seen as presenting the victory of the Blessed Virgin over Communism. In the Vatican issued a press release stating that it was "most probable the Secret would remain, for ever, under absolute seal. According to the New York Timesspeculation ranged from "worldwide nuclear annihilation to deep rifts in the Roman Catholic Church that lead Secret of Mary rival papacies. The release of the text sparked criticism from the Catholic Church in Portugal. The Times Secret of Mary 29 June reported that "The revelation Secret of Mary Monday that there were no doomsday predictions has provoked angry reactions from the Portuguese church over the decision to keep the prophecy secret for half a century. Critics such as Italian journalist and media personality Antonio Socci claim that the four-page handwritten text of the Third Secret released by the Vatican in is not the real Secret of Mary, or at least not the full secret. Because of the seriousness of its contents, in order not to encourage the world wide power of Communism to carry out certain coups, my predecessors in the chair of Peter have diplomatically preferred to withhold its publication. On the other hand, it should be sufficient for all Christians to know this much: if there is a message in which it is said that the oceans will flood entire sections of the earth; that, from one moment to the other, millions of people will perish Many want to know merely Secret of Mary of curiosity, or because of their taste for sensationalism, but they forget that 'to know' Secret of Mary for them a responsibility. It is dangerous to Secret of Mary to satisfy one's curiosity only, if one is convinced that we can do nothing against a catastrophe Secret of Mary has been predicted. Pray, pray and ask for nothing else. Put everything in the hands of the Mother of God. Through your prayers and mine, Secret of Mary is possible to alleviate this tribulation, Secret of Mary it is no longer possible to avert it, because it is only in this way that the Church can be effectively renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the Church been effected in blood? This time, again, it will not be otherwise. We must be strong, The Vatican has maintained its position that the full text of the Third Secret was published in June Bertone, who was elevated to the rank of cardinal in and held the position of Vatican Secretary of State until Septemberwrote a book in titled The Last Secret of Fatima. At one point in Secret of Mary interview, De Carli comments on an unsourced accusation that the Vatican is concealing a one-page text of the Third Secret which predicts a great apostasy where Rome will "lose the faith and become the throne of the Antichrist. That's absolutely crazy. Look, are you claiming that the prophecy of Fatima is about the apostasy of the Church of Rome? That Fatima is a prediction of Rome's transformation into the throne Secret of Mary the Antichrist? Anyone can write books based on conspiracy theories, on biased interpretations. Anybody can take sentences out of context and present them as clues to some supposed plot to avoid divulging the truth and to transmit it Secret of Mary a code that only the initiates can understand. No, the whole theory you allude to is a fabrication. And this supposedly factual account is actually the sort of device the Masons used to invent to discredit the Church. I'm surprised Secret of Mary journalists and writers who claim to be Catholic Secret of Mary themselves be taken in. At another point in the interview, De Carli mentions that Cardinal Ottaviani had once stated that the Third Secret was written on a single sheet of paper. Describing these observations as "feeble bits of evidence that neither prove nor disprove anything", De Carli asks Cardinal Bertone about the possibility of there being two texts, where the "first document" contains the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the other contains the description of the vision published by the Vatican. Bertone answers in part "There is no first document. There never was any such text in the archives of the Holy Office. Later on in the interview, Bertone again addresses the question as to whether a text exists with words attributed to the Blessed Virgin that was censored: "The part of the text where the Virgin speaks in the first person wasn't censored, for the simple reason that it never existed. I'm basing my statement on Sister Lucia's own direct confirmation that the Third Secret is none other than the text that was published in the year In early Septemberarchbishop Loris Francesco Capovillaprivate secretary to Pope John XXIII, who witnessed Pope John open the envelope of the third secret, said there was no truth in the rumor that the Vatican was suppressing a vision of the end of the world. The text which I read in is the same that was distributed by the Vatican. It just isn't true. I read it, I presented it to the Pope and we resealed the envelope. They stated that they wished to participate in the question and answer part of the reception. When told that the cardinal would not be taking questions, they then tried to confront Bertone, who is the Vatican Secretary of State. Security guards hustled them. In talking to reporters afterwards, Socci and Paolini produced a tape recording in which they claimed Archbishop Loris Francesco Capovillarevealed that there were two texts of the Third Secret, [39] although Capovilla had stated otherwise less than two weeks before. Michael Cuneo notes "Secret messages, apocalyptic countdowns, cloak-and-dagger intrigue within the highest echelons of the Vatican: not even Hollywood could ask for better material than this". Bennett takes note of how, starting in the s, the image of Our Lady of Fatima developed into a rallying point for anti-communism, an idea that spread far beyond the Iberian peninsula. Therefore, it is possible to conceive of a vibrant cultus where the strength of the devotion, shrine, or pilgrimage, can outweigh uncertainties regarding Secret of Mary origin. According to Maunder, Fatima demonstrates not only how seriously Catholics took "the revelations of an enclosed nun remembering visions she had experienced at the age of ten, but also show how difficult it is for the hierarchy to manage a movement of popular piety, despite critics claims of manipulation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Prophecies made during Secret of Mary apparition of the Secret of Mary Mary in People by era or century. Desert Fathers. Contemporary papal views.