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A Rema Marketing Publication MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART UNIVERSAL QUEEN (Part 3) Angel of Light or Messenger of Deception? Seeing the Raw Facts on Marian Apparitions MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART A PRODUCTION OF REMA MARKETING AND WWW.GLOBALREPORT2010.COM ©2014, All rights reserved MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART PART 3: UNIVERSAL QUEEN This report is the property of Rema Marketing and is considered to be strictly for reading only. With receipt of this report, the recipient acknowledges and agrees that written permissions must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this report, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles. A publication of Rema Marketing. ©2014 All rights reserved. MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART A PRODUCTION OF REMA MARKETING AND WWW.GLOBALREPORT2010.COM ©2014, All rights reserved 2 MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART PART 3: UNIVERSAL QUEEN MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART PART 3 – UNIVERSAL QUEEN Both Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, are important to Islam. Various non-Christian writings suggest that female apparitions could be factors in the coming ecumenical unity. Goddess worship has existed throughout history and has a large following in the 21st century. How could the Queen of Heaven have any influence on the millions of Muslims who follow Allah? Those who have studied the Muslim’s holy book, known as the Koran, may be aware of the answer. And what about the New Age book entitled Mary’s Message to the World which contains hundreds of revelations from a manifestation calling herself Mary, which falls in line with both New Age thinking and Eastern religious beliefs. Is this Mary the same person manifesting herself as Kwanon and Tara in the Orient, Devi in Hinduism, Gaia in ecology and Venus and Ashtar of ancient pagan religion? 1 VALIDATING THE MESSAGES OF MARY 5 2 THE ASSAULT ON PROTESTANTISM 14 3 THE QUEEN ON SEVEN HILLS 18 4 MARY: THE KEY TO THE MUSLIM WORLD 26 5 THE MARY OF THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT 35 6 THE CULT OF THE BLACK VIRGIN 42 7 ENDNOTES 51 MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART A PRODUCTION OF REMA MARKETING AND WWW.GLOBALREPORT2010.COM ©2014, All rights reserved 3 MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART PART 3: UNIVERSAL QUEEN MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART UNIVERSAL QUEEN MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART A PRODUCTION OF REMA MARKETING AND WWW.GLOBALREPORT2010.COM ©2014, All rights reserved 4 MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART PART 3: UNIVERSAL QUEEN 1. VALIDATING THE MESSAGES OF MARY Lúcia’s claims to have had direct contact with a lady from heaven were what the Church calls ‘private revelations.’ They were extraordinary but far from unprecedented. Indeed they were remarkably similar to the private revelations of a great many other people in various parts of the world over the years. These included Joan of Arc and St Bernadette of Lourdes, two of the most famous of all Christian visionaries. Joan of Arc was an unknown 13-year-old peasant girl before God reportedly spoke to her on political and military matters in 1424 and urged her to go on to rid her homeland of the occupying English. Bernadette Soubirous was a 14-year-old shepherdess when she saw the Madonna in 1858 at the now famous grotto in Lourdes. France has had far more than its fair share of visions, particularly in the 19th century when there was a worldwide boom in sightings of the Virgin Mary under scores of aliases. These included Our Lady of Charity, of Consolation, of Copacabana, of Las Vegas, of Limerick, of Loreto, of Perpetual Help, of the Prairie, of Safe Travel, of the Snows, of Sorrows, of Turumba, of Tears. There was even Our Lady of Milk and Happy Delivery. Lest there be confusion, the last referred to childbirth, not bottles on the doorstep. While France may hold the European record for the number of Marian sightings, Italy, Belgium, Germany and Spain also have had quite a few. Numerous sightings have been reported in Ireland, of course, and in other places as far afield as Austria, Egypt, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Brazil and China. Most commonly the sightings have been by young girls, women or clergymen. Usually the Virgin Mary has appeared in times of trouble. Visions are often observed by individuals, but plenty of reports have been recorded of two or more people witnessing the same apparition simultaneously. Two local women plus 13 onlookers of various ages said they saw the Virgin Mary with St Joseph and St John the Evangelist at a church in Knock in Ireland in 1879. A group of 50 schoolchildren saw a vision of Mary accompanied by angels and saints at Tilly-sur-Seulles, Bayeux, in France in 1896. About 100 Western Samoans said they saw an image of Mary surrounded by bright colours in the early morning sky near the horizon off their South Pacific island in 1997. Thousands of Georgians lined up in 1998 to see an apparition on the spire of Tbilisi’s ancient blue monastery. Visions are often one-off experiences, but many records exist of multiple visions. St Anselm, a 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury, apparently had numerous. Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary 18 times at Lourdes. In Muzillac, near Vannes, France, three children amassed 65 visions MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART A PRODUCTION OF REMA MARKETING AND WWW.GLOBALREPORT2010.COM ©2014, All rights reserved 5 MARY, FATIMA AND THE IMMACULATE HEART PART 3: UNIVERSAL QUEEN of Mary in 1918. Apparitions were witnessed several times over a period of nine days in 1986 by seven teenagers in a village near Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. Some visions must be taken with larger pinches of salt than others. Nearly 2,000 people an hour flocked to see an image of the so-called ‘Subway Virgin’ formed in a puddle of water caused by a leaky pipe in a Mexico City metro station in 1997. As the puddle dried, the image was reduced to a 10-inch long stain resembling, some said, the image of Mexico’s most famous Marian manifestation, the Virgin of Guadalupe. The local archbishop’s office expressed doubt that the image was a true miracle, saying it failed to rank with divine appearances such as that in Guadalupe in 1531, Lourdes in 1854 and Fátima in Portugal in 1917. “There are no theological elements that lead us to consider this a divine presence,” the Church declared after the Mexico leak had been examined and repaired. The visions that started in Medjugorje in 1981 in Bosnia-Herzegovina were similar in some ways to those of Fátima. The Blessed Virgin is purported to have confided to a group of young visionaries secrets of great importance to the Church and the world, and repeatedly spoken of the need for prayer, sacrifice and penance. The sightings are said to be still going on daily, but some of the secrets have yet to be revealed. Even though the Vatican has not authenticated the visions and forbidden ‘official’ pilgrimages, the former tiny village of Medjugorje has become one of the most famous places of pilgrimage in Europe. By way of thanking the Virgin Mary after a trip they had taken to Medjugorje, the owners of a farm east of Toronto set up Stations of the Cross on their land and invited groups of friends to join them in prayer. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary began appearing at the farm and it too became a big attraction. In the closing years of the 20th century, all continents abounded with reports of marvellous divine sightings, sometimes in strange situations. The Virgin Mary was seen on a football field in Croatia, on the wall of a tyre repair garage in Argentina, in the door of an apartment-leasing agency in San Antonio, Texas, and on a traffic sign in Washington DC. A plastic doll of the Blessed Virgin in Bournemouth, England, wept tears; statues in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Ballinspittle, Ireland, mysteriously moved. Mary has hovered around a Coptic church tower in a village north of Cairo and been observed leaving a golden palace in a carriage pulled by winged horses in the sky over the Philippines. When offered for sale on eBay, a 10-year-old toasted cheese sandwich said to bear an image of the Virgin Mary and showing no sign of going mouldy reportedly received more than 1.7 million hits and eventually fetched $28,000. Christian visions are not confined to the Virgin Mary, of course. ‘Miraculous’ crosses of light, in some cases captured on video, have appeared from Knoxville, Tennessee, to New Zealand. Numerous unmistakable Biblical characters have been identified at one time or another in the sky in broad daylight, often on or next to a cloud. Never mind the Second Coming being an anticipated event scheduled for some time in the future, Jesus Christ in person has already been reported in diverse places. These included the studio of a portrait painter in Forth Worth, Texas, and the ship on which agents of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency held the dissident leader and later South Korean President Kim Daejung after abducting him from a hotel in Tokyo in 1973. A Kenyan nun regularly met with Jesus in Nairobi in 1987 and 1988 – but only on Thursdays. Generally though, visions of Jesus seem to have been comparatively scarce. Mary, by contrast, has been seen innumerable times since the Middle Ages and nearly always by children. She has often spoken of the need for prayer and penance, made requests, issued dire warnings and promised cures under certain conditions.

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