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100 Years of Grace 100 Years of Grace PLUS 70th Anniversary of Our Lady’s 1917-2017 FATIMA ANNIVERSARY ISSUE OF SOUL Blue Army • 12TH CENTURY – The village of Fatima is named after a beloved Muslim princess who converted to the Catholic faith and married the Christian knight Goncalo Hermingues. Fatima and the hand of Mary Portugal is located on the Iberian Peninsula in the extreme southwest • MARCH 28, 1907 – of Europe. Its Christian roots go Lucia dos Santos is born back to the first century, when the apostle St. James traveled over • JUNE 11, 1908 – Spain and Portugal. In the eighth century, Francisco Marto is born the Muslim Moors invaded the Iberian Penin- • MARCH 11, 1910 – sula and took control of Portugal and Spain. Jacinta Marto is born The Portuguese won a decisive victory over the Moors in 1139, which they attributed to • JUNE 28, 1914 – the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Archduke Franz Ferdinand They also prayed for her intercession to re- of Austria-Hungary is sist the Spanish invasion in the 14th century assassinated. and was successful under the inspiring lead- ership of St. Nuno Alvares in 1385. In 1646, • JULY 28, 1914 – Austria-Hun- King John IV and all his people promised gary declares war on Serbia, their fidelity to the most holy Virgin under setting off global conflict the title of the Immaculate Conception, and proclaimed the Mother of God the Queen • AUGUST 1, 1914 – Russia en- and Patroness of Portugal. ters World War I against Ger- The town of Fatima takes its name from a many and Austria-Hungary Muslim princess named after Muhammad’s • 1915 – 9-year-old Lucia sees first and most beloved daughter, Fatima. a figure in white suspended When the last of the Moors were leaving in midair Portugal, she was captured by the Christian knight Don Goncalco. They fell in love and • SPRING 1916 – The Angel she converted to the Catholic faith. She was of Peace appears to Lucia baptized under the Christian name Oure- and her cousins Jacinta and ana, and the two were married. She died Francisco within a year of their marriage, and Don Goncalco decided to become a Cistercian • SUMMER 1916 – The Angel of monk at Alcobaca. Later he was sent to a Peace appears a second time, small priory, and took the remains of his announcing himself as the wife with him and named the place Fatima Angel of Portugal in her memory. (Fatima for Today, Rev. Andrew Apostoli, pp 10-12) • FALL 1916 – The Angel of Peace appears a third time 6 Soul | World Apostolate of Fatima U.S.A. | Our Lady’s Blue Army The Story of Fatima uring World War I, Pope Ben- edict XV made repeated, but Dforlorn, pleas for peace. Finally, in May 1917, he made a direct appeal to the Blessed Mother to intercede for peace in the world. Just over a week later, Our Lady began to appear at Fatima, Portugal, to three shep- herd children: Lucia dos Santos, age 10, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, ages 9 and 7. However, it was in the previous year, 1916, that the children had their first su- pernatural encounters with an Angel as a means of preparing them to receive the Queen of Heaven. The Angel of Portugal Second Angel Apparition In the spring of 1916, as the three shepherds Later in the summer, the Angel appeared again tended their sheep in a property called Old Chou- to the children near the well behind Lucia’s home. sa, a drizzling rain began to fall, so they climbed He gently reproached them, “What are you doing? the hill to find shelter in the crevices of a rock. Pray, pray very much. The most holy Hearts of Je- Suddenly a strong wind began to shake the trees. sus and Mary have designs of mercy on you. Offer They looked up and saw coming toward them a prayers and sacrifices to the Most High.” dazzlingly beautiful young man, seemingly made Lucia asked how they were to make sacrifices; he of light, who told them, “Do not be afraid. I am said, “Make of everything you can a sacrifice and the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.” offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until by which He is offended, and in supplication for his forehead touched the ground and had them the conversion of sinners. You will thus draw down repeat three times: “My God, I believe, I adore, I peace upon your country. I am its Guardian Angel, hope and I love You. I ask pardon for those who do the Angel of Portugal. Above all, accept and bear not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not with submission the suffering which the Lord will love You.” send you.” Then, rising, he said, “Pray thus. The Hearts of The three shepherds then began to sacrifice many Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your things that gave them pleasure and offer them in supplications.” Leaving them absorbed in a super- reparation for sins. natural atmosphere, the Angel disappeared. Special Commemorative Issue | www.bluearmy.com 7 • MARCH 1917 – Russian Third Angel Apparition government collapses In the fall, the three shepherds were with their sheep near the cave where the Angel had first • APRIL 1917 – The United appeared. They prostrated themselves and began to States enters the war pray the prayer that he taught them. Suddenly they were enveloped by an intense light and saw the An- • MAY 5, 1917 – Pope Benedict gel holding a chalice with a host suspended above XV urges the world to invoke it, from which drops of blood fell. The Angel knelt the Mother of Mercy for down beside them with his face to the ground, peace which the shepherds followed, and prayed: “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly, I offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is offended. And through the merits of His most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners.” First appari- • MAY 13, 1917 – Then rising, he gave the host to Lucia, tion of Our Lady of Fatima at and the chalice to Francisco and Jacinto the Cova da Iria to drink. He said, “Take and drink the Body • MAY 13, 1917 – Eugene Pacelli and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by (Pope Pius XII) is consecrated ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes a bishop and console your God.” He fell prostrate again and repeated this prayer three times. The shepherds, • JUNE 13, 1917 – Second appa- immersed in prayer and absorbed by this experi- rition of Our Lady of Fatima ence, did not notice the Angel had left them. They did not tell anyone about the Angel, feeling an interior necessity to keep quiet about these events. The Mystery of the Host A question arose as to where the Angel would have gotten the host and chalice. After all, he was not a priest who could have consecrated them. However, a possible explanation surfaced in a town 18 miles from Fatima. The parish traditionally cele- • JULY 13, 1917 – Third appari- brated the feast of St. Michael (the archangel) on tion of Our Lady of Fatima — September 29. After the procession the pastor took three-part secret revealed to the lunette holding the host from the monstrance the children and with his chalice locked them in the tabernacle, keeping the only key. The next day when he opened • AUGUST 13, 1917 – The Fati- the tabernacle the large host was missing and the ma shepherds are kidnapped chalice had been moved. Greatly distraught, the by Administrator Arturo de poor priest reported this to his bishop and for the Santos, a leading Freemason rest of his life agonized over somehow misplacing the host. Then several months before he died, with- • AUGUST 19, 1917 – Fourth out explanation, he told friends he was no longer apparition of Our Lady occurs troubled by this matter. in Valinhos near the village of Aljustrel 8 Soul | World Apostolate of Fatima U.S.A. | Our Lady’s Blue Army 1917: The Lady who “No, my daughter. Are you suffering a great deal? Don’t Came from Heaven lose heart. I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will May Apparition be your refuge and the way that On May 13, the three children took their flocks will lead you to God.” out to pasture in the area known as the Cova da The Lady opened her hands Iria. After lunch and the Rosary, they suddenly saw and for the second time a bright flash of light, followed quickly by another communicated the rays of flash in the clear blue sky. that same immense light and They looked up to see, in Lucia’s words, “A lady, they saw themselves in that clothed in white, brighter than the sun, radiating a light — Jacinta and Francisco light more clear and intense than a crystal cup filled in the part that rose toward with sparkling water lit by burning sunlight.” The heaven; Lucia in that which children stood there amazed, bathed in the light that was poured out on the earth. surrounded the apparition. The Lady smiled and In the Lady’s right hand was a said: “Do not be afraid, I will not harm you. I come heart encircled by thorns that from heaven.” She asked them to come to the Cova pierced it.
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