The Blessed Virgin Mary has miraculously appeared to the faithful to bring Heavenly aid to the Church, at various turning points in history, since the Savior completed His mission upon the earth. Following the anti-Catholic, revolutionary movements of the 18th and 19th centuries, Mary’s visitations became fairly numerous. Now included among the best-known examples of recent, officially recognized Marian apparitions in Europe, are La Salette, France (1946), Lourdes, France (1858), Pontmain, France (1871), Knock, Ireland (1879-80), Fatima, Portugal (1917), Beauraing, Belgium (1932-33) and Banneux, Belgium (1933).

Two of the most popular of these “approved” apparitions of the Blessed Mother, La Salette and Fatima, enjoyed the enthusiastic favor of several popes, yet have been met with the greatest opposition by persons “inside” the structures of the Church.

At Fatima, our Lady delivered a timely message for the Church and the world to three shepherd children, part of which was made public in 1917, while the remainder was to be unveiled at a later date. For decades, the Catholic world waited, which great anticipation, to learn the contents of the sealed Third Secret of Fatima, which was to be publicly revealed by the pope no later than 1960. But, when it was suppressed by John XXIII, the disappointment of the faithful was enormous. Soon thereafter, suspicions that something had gone awry in the Vatican first began to be expressed in Catholic circles, and religious editorials.

In its time, the Secret of La Salette had also captured the attention of the faithful, as well as church leaders. This included two popes, who recognized in the words, which had been conveyed by the Virgin to two French peasant children, Melanie Calvat and Maximim Giraud, an authentic harbinger of the end times. But this earlier secret also was effectively stifled.

There has always been a definite link between the suppression of the Secret of La Salette by the French hierarchy (followed by, the Holy Office), and the quashing of the Third Secret of Fatima by John XXIII in 1960. For, their respective messages, which had the same source, were undoubtedly similar, and were met with stiff resistance from the same quarters.

The Secret of La Salette

Approved by Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII, yet virtually concealed for 70 years, the Secret of La Salette read in part:

“ . . . The Vicar of my Son will have much to suffer, as, for a time the Church will be the victim of great persecutions: this will be the hour of darkness. The Church will suffer a terrible crisis . . .

“The Holy Father will suffer greatly. I will be by his side to the end in order to receive his sacrifice. The wicked will make several attempts on his life but they cannot harm him. But neither he nor his successor [here, Melanie inserted in parentheses the words, ‘who will not reign long’] will live to see the triumph of the Church of God . . .

“Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist . . .

“The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay.” (Abbé Paul Gouin, Sister Mary Of The Cross; The Shepherdess Of La Salette, 1981, L’Association Des Enfants De Notre Dame De La Salette & Saint Louis Grignon De Montfort - printed by Billing and Sons Limited, London, pages 66 & 68. (For a complete transcript of the document, see: Appendix; The Secret Of La Salette.)

Fierce hostility to the “Secret” soon developed within a certain coterie of the French clergy, possibly where Masonic infiltration had been most effective. Melanie and Maximim became the targets of vicious attacks, particularly among members of the French hierarchy. Interestingly, the bishops, who had most violently opposed the young seers and the La Salette devotion, were stopped “dead” in their tracks, according to one account of that time:

“In 1846, in a municipality of the Isère (La Salette), the Virgin appeared to two little children: Maximim Giraud and Melanie Calvat-Mathieu.

“Four French Bishops devoted themselves to the work of suffocating the belief [in La Salette] among the population. But they all died in tragic and mysterious circumstances. Bishop Ginovuhac of Grenoble, who had confined the young Melanie in an English convent in order to silence her, died shortly afterwards in a madhouse. His successor Bishop Fava, who also did everything possible in order to halt the dissemination of the [La Salette] devotion, was found dead, stretched out on the floor, stripped, with disfigured eyes, and clenched fists. Bishop Gilbert of Amieins and later, Bourdeaux, who had said: ‘The secret of La Salette is nothing more than a tissue of profaneness, lies, and exaggeration,’ shortly after 16 August 1889, was found dead in his room, also having fallen to the floor. And, during his funeral, his coffin crashed from the catafalque. Archbishop Darboy of Paris, who personally interrogated Maximim, causing him great psychological disturbance in order to learn the secret of the Virgin, and being perturbed by not obtaining it, had said to the boy: ‘The words of your beautiful Lady contain stupidity, as stupid as will be your secret.’ This brought the response from the boy: ‘It is as true, that I have seen the beautiful Lady, as I am certain that before three years are out, you will have been shot.” The time for the revolutionary movement of the Communes had not yet come, nor had it been foreseen by the complacent and careless France of the Second Empire. But, on 24 May 1871, this prediction also came true: the Archbishop was shot by the Communards of Paris.” (Luigi Villa, “La Salette; 19 settembre 1846 [‘I fatti sono…fatti’],” Chiesa Viva, No. 143, November 1972, Brescia, Italy, page 4)

Many years later, Melanie would have the Secret of La Salette printed (at her own expense) in its entirety, but had to venture to the heel of the Italian peninsula to find a bishop who would approve of her project. Although the Bishop of Lece, Italy, had granted an imprimatur for the publication of the Secret’s contents, most of the booklets that Melanie distributed throughout France, would later be confiscated by confessors who demanded the surrender of the material from their penitents, as an implied condition for absolution.

Eventually, the French hierarchy threatened Rome with the cut off of “Peter’s Pence” (contributions to the material support of the urgent needs of the pope) unless the Vatican would agree to curtail the circulation of the “Secret,” even though its dissemination had been favored by the Holy See. From 1879 to 1900, several books foretelling the reign of Antichrist, perhaps inspired by the Secret of La Salette, had been published by highly respected clergy and laymen in the Church. This included Bishop Salvator Grafen Zola (the Italian bishop who supplied Melanie with the Imprimatur for her booklet on the Secret), Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (the imminent English Cardinal who drafted the decree on papal infallibility for Pope Pius IX at the First Vatican Council), and Frederick William Helle. By 1910, the references to a long-suffering Pope, Rome becoming the seat of Antichrist, the true Church being eclipsed and other clues concerning the end-times attack against the papacy, formed a common thread between the classical interpretations of scripture prophecy and the most recent warnings from Heaven. These kinds of details would always generate the greatest opposition to genuine, modern-day, private prophecies. For they threatened to expose the satanic plot and long-time goal of the Masonic Lodge’s double-agents in the Vatican, to usurp and control the papal chair.

It should be remembered that despite the strong measures taken against Masonry by Pope Leo XIII, Cardinal Rampolla, a secret 33rd degree Freemason, had infiltrated the hierarchy and eventually became Pope Leo’s Secretary of State, having thus attained the second highest office in the Church. From the key posts, which they had already occupied 100 years before the death of Pope Pius XII, Luciferian agents, masquerading as Vatican officials were being positioned to smother recent Heavenly warnings, and to keep them hidden from the faithful, and if possible, even the popes.

Finally, on December 21, 1915, the Sacred Congregation Holy Office, issued a ban against further publication of “commentaries” on the Secret, by the following decree:

“It has come to the knowledge of this Supreme Congregation that there are still persons, even ecclesiastics, who, in spite of the answers and decisions of the Sacred Congregation itself, continue, by books, pamphlets, and articles published in periodicals, whether signed or anonymous, to discuss the question of the Secrets of La Salette, its various texts, its adaptions to our present times or to the future - and these, not only without the approbation of their Bishops, but even in spite of their express prohibition. In order that these abuses, which are hurtful to true piety, and seriously attack ecclesiastical authority, may be repressed, the same Sacred Congregation orders the faithful of all countries to abstain from treating and discussing this said question, under whatsoever pretext or form, either in books, pamphlets, or articles signed or and anonymous, or in any other way . . .

“ . . . This Decree is not, however, contrary to the devotion to the Blessed Virgin invoked and known under the title of Reconciler of La Salette.

“Given at Rome, at the palace of the Holy Office, December 21, l915.” (Signed) Louis Castellano, Notary - as reprinted by the Weekly Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 25, 22 June 1962, Council of the International Catholic Crusade Against Communism, New Salem, Pennsylania, page 4.)

Although the Secret itself was not censured in 1915, but only private interpretations of it, the same effect was nevertheless achieved by the enemies of La Salette, as Catholic publishers were thereafter very reluctant to reproduce the Secret, even without commentaries. Hence, its contents (along with numerous, related essays on the coming of Antichrist) remained hidden for decades.

What was it about the La Salette devotion and particularly, the Secret of La Salette, that had stirred up so much hostility against Melanie and Maximim, such that, to this day, the reputations of those devout souls are still called into question? A possible reason for the antagonism by which the French seers had been buffeted by the Masonic-dominated French clergy, and were even shunned by some officials in Rome, may be gleaned by the Secret itself. For the “Secret” may have come close to divulging the Lodge’s occult plan to overthrow the papacy, to suppress the Mass, and destroy the Church (“Tolle Pappam; Tolle Misam; Tolle Ecclesiam .”).

The “Secret” warned that “the Church will be in eclipse.” “Eclipse” means hidden; covered up; seeming to disappear. The Holy Scriptures say: “Where there is Peter, there is the Church.” That the obscuration of the pope was the prerequisite step for taking away the Mass and the Church seems to have been foretold by Melanie. She understood that Peter would be hidden along with the Church, and that his “eclipse” would be a prelude to the disappearance of the Mass. For, in commenting on this part of the secret, Melanie said to the French Abbot Combe:

“The Church will be eclipsed. At first, we will not know which is the true pope. Then secondly, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will cease to be offered in churches and houses; it will be such that, for a time, there will not be public services any more. But I see that the Holy Sacrifice has not really ceased: it will be offered in barns, in alcoves, in caves, and underground.” (Abbot Combe: The Secret of Melanie and the Actual Crisis, 1906, Rome, p.137.)

Pope Leo’s Prayer to St. Michael

Another heavenly warning, censored by as yet unnamed Vatican officials, and mysteriously stricken in 1934, from the Raccolta (the Vatican’s book of officially-sanctioned prayers), was a certain “Prayer 407” (also sometimes listed “446”), written by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), who was a devotee of La Salette. Leo issued the prayer in his “moto proprio” of 25 September 1888. He was prompted to compose the prayer, so the story goes, by an incident that had left him terrified. One day, when the pope had just finished offering his morning Mass, he became traumatized to the point that he collapsed suddenly, causing those in attendance to think he was dead. Upon his return to consciousness, the pope described a frightful conversation he had heard coming from near the tabernacle on the altar. The locution consisted of two “voices” which the Holy Father perceived to be that of Christ and Satan. The latter boasted that he could destroy the Church, if only he was granted a period of 75 years to carry out his plan (or 100 years, according to some accounts). He also asked for “a greater influence” over those who will do his will. Both requests were allegedly granted by our Lord (perhaps as a test for those Catholics who had grown indifferent to the Faith in the aftermath of the revolutionary movements of the 19th century).

Although the rumor of this incident has been dismissed as fantasy from time to time, the pope would nevertheless have been aware of the opinions of Catholic scripture scholars over the ages that, in the latter days, a pontiff would be driven from Rome by Antichrist and his precursors. By whatever means, the pope apparently had specific knowledge of the devil’s strategy to bring down the Church by setting up a false pope in the place of the true Vicar of Christ. In fact, by the publication in The Raccolta, of his original “Prayer to St. Michael,” presented below, Pope Leo seemed to have been sending a clear warning to the Church of the impending attack on the papacy. The prayer contained a key passage (highlighted below in bold type), which strongly suggested that a false authority was already being set up that would soon displace the true Vicar of Christ:

“O GLORIOUS Archangel St. Michael, Prince of heavenly host, be our defense in the terrible warfare which we carry on against principalities and Powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, spirits of evil. Come to the aid of man, whom GOD created immortal, made in his own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of the devil. Fight this day the battle of the LORD, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer, and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist thee, nor was there place for them any longer in Heaven. That cruel, ancient serpent, who is called the devil or Satan, who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with his angels. Behold, this primeval enemy and slayer of men has taken courage. Transformed into an angel of light, he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to blot out the name of GOD and of his CHRIST to seize upon, slay and cast into eternal perdition souls destined for the crown of eternal glory. This wicked dragon pours out, as a most impure flood, the venom of his malice on men of depraved mind and corrupt heart, the spirit of lying, of impiety, of blasphemy, and the pestilent breath of impurity, and of every vice and iniquity. These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered. Arise then O invincible Prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of GOD, and give them the victory. They venerate thee as their protector and patron; in thee holy Church glories as her defense against the malicious power of hell; to thee has GOD entrusted the souls of men to be established in heavenly beatitude. Oh, pray to the GOD of peace that He may put Satan under our feet, so far conquered that he may no longer be able to hold men in captivity and harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of thee Most High, so that they may quickly conciliate the mercies of the LORD; and beating down the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, do thou again make him captive in the abyss, that he may no longer seduce the nations. Amen.

V. Behold the Cross of the LORD; be scattered ye hostile powers.
R. The Lion of the tribe of Juda has conquered, the root of David.
V. Let thy mercies be upon us, O LORD. As we have hoped in thee.
V. O LORD, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto thee. Let us pray.

O GOD, the FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, we call upon thy holy name, and as suppliants we implore thy clemency, that by the intercession of Mary, ever Virgin immaculate and our Mother, and of the glorious Archangel St Michael, thou wouldst deign to help us against Satan and all other unclean spirits, who wander about the world for the injury of the human race and the ruin of souls. Amen.” (“#407 Prayer to St. Michael,” The Raccolta, 1930; Benziger Brothers, pages 314, 315)

Pope Leo’s Prayer to St. Michael was published in successive editions, but then, in 1934, without explanation, the Sacred Penitentiary Apostolic in Rome authorized its removal and replacement with the following ambiguous forgery, titled only as prayer “410”:

“O glorious Prince of the heavenly host, Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle and in the fearful warfare that we are waging against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against the evil spirits. Come thou to the assistance of men, whom Almighty God created immortal, making them in His own image and likeness and redeeming them at a great price from the tyranny of Satan. Fight this day the battle of the Lord with thy legions of holy Angels, even as of old thou didst fight against Lucifer, the leader of the proud spirits and all his rebel angels, who were powerless to stand against thee, neither was their place found any more in heaven. And that apostate angel, transformed into an angel of darkness who still creeps about the earth to encompass our rum, was cast headlong into the abyss together with his followers. But behold, that first enemy of mankind, and a murderer from the beginning, has regained his confidence. Changing himself into an angel of light, he goes about with the whole multitude of the wicked spirits to invade the earth and blot out the Name of God and of His Christ, to plunder, to slay and to consign to eternal damnation the souls that have been destined for a crown of everlasting life. This wicked serpent, like an unclean torrent, pours into men of depraved minds and corrupt hearts the poison of his malice, the spirit of lying, impiety and blasphemy, and the deadly breath of impurity and every form of vice and iniquity. These crafty enemies of mankind have filled to overflowing with gall and wormwood the Church, which is the Bride of the Lamb without spot; they have laid profane hands upon her most sacred treasures. Make haste, therefore, O invincible Prince, to help the people of God against the inroads of the lost spirits and grant us the victory. Amen.” (“410,” The Raccolta, 1952; Benziger Brothers, pages 339, 340)

The Raccolta implies that Pope Leo’s moto proprio, of 25 September 1888, was the source for the truncated and watered-down “410,” even though the prayer had not seen the light of day until, 4 May 1934. Yet another Prayer to St. Michael, “411,” appeared at the same time, to which Pope Leo’s authorship had also been claimed, although, like prayer “410,” it was not published until 31 years after the pope’s death. This last Prayer to St. Michael, which was very brief when compared to the previous two, ultimately became the best known of the three when its use, “for the Church in Russia,” became institutionalized. For 30 years the prayer was recited at the end of low Masses, offered in Catholic churches throughout the world:

“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.” (“411,” The Raccolta, 1952; Benziger Brothers, page 340.)

But even this prayer was too much for the “new regime” that had been installed in the Vatican after the death of Pope Pius XII. This last fragment of what had remained of the original Prayer to St. Michael, was dropped altogether by Paul VI in 1963, so as not to cause any continued offense to the “church” in Russia. (Of course, this was the “Russian Orthodox Church,” whose prelates were nothing more than officers of the Soviet KGB.) Earlier in the same year, a secret accord was reached between the Kremlin and John XXIII, referred to as the Vatican-Moscow Agreement, decades later. The treaty would eventually be revealed as the explanation why pastors had no longer been allowed to lead the faithful in the Prayer to St. Michael after Mass. By this sinister pact, the new Vatican powers-that-be promised to stop the Church’s praying for “the conversion of Russia,” as a condition for the attendance at the Second Vatican Council by the Soviet state-church hierarchy (and its retinue of espionage agents). By then, it was becoming obvious to alert Catholics that something was seriously wrong “at the top,” when prayers for the conversion of the Church’s most brutal persecutors in modern times, were arbitrarily halted before any real change of heart was manifest by the Soviet dictatorship. (It was at this time that the emerging “new church” also stopped praying for the conversion of Christ’s age-old adversaries, the Jews, who .)

The Message of Fatima

Just as the original Prayer to St. Michael, authored by Pope Leo XIII, had long since been consigned to oblivion, together with the “Secret of La Salette,” by dark forces inside the Vatican,
Masonic interlopers in the Church during the 1920’s, ‘30’s and ‘40’s, had managed to conceal from the faithful one of the most important events in modern history, the appearance of Our Lady of Fatima.

Supernatural manifestations at Fatima began in 1915, the same year that the Holy Office had stifled all discussion on the Secret of La Salette. In 1916, St. Michael the Archangel had begun to appear to the three Fatima children, Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto, and Lucia dos Santos. Then on 13 May 1917, the first vision of the Virgin Mary occurred to the young shepherds. The Great Fatima Secret was delivered to the children by the Mother of God, on 13 October 1917, while the spectacular “Miracle of the Sun” was simultaneously seen by 70-80,000 dumfounded, eye-witnesses. The “Fatima Secret” stated in part:

“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 ask of 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 reign of Pius 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.

“To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. 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 martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.

“In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world . . .”

Once, again, troubles for the Church, and great sufferings for the Holy Father, were foretold by the heavenly messenger. The principal belligerents of World War I would again be at war within 20 years, shortly after the appearance of an eerie red light that lit up the night sky across Europe and North America on 25 January 1938. But at the time, no one in 1917, could have imagined a backward country like Russia, where many people lived in semi-starvation and abject misery, would be able to spread its influence around the world, causing large-scale persecutions of the Church and intense sufferings to the Holy Father. Few could have predicted that Russia, soon to be under the grip of Judeo-Freemasonry and Marxism, would be able, only 41 years later, to interfere in the papal conclave, and, together with other world powers, cause the overthrow of the rightful pope from the See of Peter. Few, even now, know that Russia was as much responsible for the second great world war, as was Germany

Once again, these new warnings from Heaven met with stiff opposition—at first by the anti-clerical government in Portugal, then by Church officials themselves, who succeeded in keeping the Catholic faithful outside of Portugal largely ignorant of the devotion, years after it was determined by the Holy See to be legitimate. In the United States, the apparitions had hardly been heard of until American soldiers, returning from World War II, brought home news about the Miracle and Message of Fatima, and the devotion to our Lady that grew from them.

Warning at Rianjo

In 1926, Lucia dos Santos, entered the religious life. While she was in residence at the Dorothean Sisters Novitiate House, in Tuy, Spain, the Virgin of Fatima fulfilled her pledge to come and request the “Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” On 13 June 1929, Sister Lucy was again visited by the Blessed Mother who announced:

“The moment has come when God asks the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means.”

“So numerous are the souls which the justice of God condemns for sins committed against Me, that I come to ask for reparation. Sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray.” (Frère Michel of the Holy Trinity, The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol. II; The Secret And The Church, 1989, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo, New York, page 464.)

To this, Sister Lucy would add the following addendum to Our Lady’s request:

The good Lord promises to end the persecution in Russia, if the Holy Father will himself make a solemn act of reparation and consecration of Russia to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as well as ordering all the bishops of the Catholic world to do the same. The Holy Father must then promise that upon the ending of the persecution he will approve and recommend the practice of the reparatory devotion already described. (Frère Michel, page 465.)

But sometime later, Our Lord, Himself communicated to Sister Lucy through an interior locution, the following warning:

“They did not want to heed My request! Like the King of France they will repent and do it, but it will be late. Russia will have already spread its errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions against the Church: the Holy Father will have much to suffer.” (Frère Michel, pages 464-65.)

The heavenly requests received by Sister Lucy were submitted to the Holy See. Two years passed and the consecration had not yet been done. It was 1931 and Pope Pius XI (1922-39) was on the Chair of Peter. When the pope failed to carry out the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Savior is reported to have revisited Sister Lucy, in August, this time at Rianjo, Spain, a coastal city where she had been sent by her superiors for reasons of health. Our Lord then declared to Sister Lucy:

“Make it known to My ministers that, given they follow the King of France in delaying the execution of My request, that they follow him into misfortune. It will never be too late to have recourse to Jesus and Mary.” (Frère Michel, pages 543-44.)

Until recently, few Catholics had ever heard of Our Lord’s warning to the pope delivered to Sister Lucy, at Rianjo. Fewer still have understood it. For Christ’s message revealed the hidden parallels between the two eras of the French Revolution and the revolt during Vatican Council II that was still to come. What follows is, at least, one explanation of the Savior’s warning:

The last kings to reign over France, Louis XIV, XV and XVI, all failed to comply with Heaven’s request to consecrate their country to the Sacred heart of Jesus. This had been asked for by the King by Heaven, through the servant of God, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. After the loss of his crown, in 1789, Louis XVI attempted to carry out the consecration, but by then, the King had already relinquished his authority, and France was lost to the Revolution.

So likewise did Pope Pius XI also fail to obey Heaven’s entreaty to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pius XII affected a consecration of “Russia and the world” but not according to the manner requested by the Mother of God.

The Freemasons, who had taken Louis XVI prisoner in 1789, put him to death in 1793.

Many years after the sudden death of Pius XI in 1939, there were rumors, associated with the so-called “[Cardinal] Tisserant Files,” which suggested that the pope had been poisoned by his own doctor. William Guy Carr asserted in his book, Red Fog Over America, that Pius XII himself was “little better than a prisoner in his own palace” (page 226). Consequently, there is reason to believe that he may also have met a fate similar to that alleged of his predecessor.

With the reported death of young Louis XVII while in Masonic custody, and the apparent suppression of the French Monarchy, the revolution pursued its Antichrist agenda to the chant of its slogan of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.”

Following the suppression of the papacy, which was carried out under the cover of conclave secrecy in 1958, the way was cleared for the long-awaited Masonic “council” which would advance the same three principal objectives of the French Revolution (this time in the “Church”): “Religious Liberty” (all religions should be give equal status by the state), “Ecumenism” (the sects which separated from the Catholic Church can be sources of grace and salvation), and “Collegiality” (the pope is merely one bishop among the bishops of the world).

Constitutional monarchs, or kings who reigned but did not rule (a fraudulent concept of the monarchy) were set up in France from 1814 to 1848. All the while, a legitimate Bourbon line from Louis XIV remained in exile (after the death of the Count of Chambord in 1883) under the Duchy of Parma. (The line still exists today in the person of the Catholic Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parma, who is thought by many French monarchists to be the rightful heir to the French Crown.)

So also were the false “conciliar popes” presented to the world, while the true pope, now believed to have been Giuseppe Siri, remained in exile under a hidden house arrest in Genoa, ever since his legitimate election as Pope, and subsequent suppression, in 1958. Since his death in 1989, hope has been kept alive, by the prophecies of the saints, that the true pope took necessary measures to guarantee the succession of the papal line.

The Third Secret of Fatima

But for the benefit of those, upon whom such symbolism would be lost, it is most likely and logical, that Heaven would have intended to give the Catholic world a specific and clear warning of the grave events to come, which before, had only been referred to in general terms. The final, concealed portion of Our Lady’s message to Sister Lucy, became well known as the Third Secret of Fatima. The Secret was written down by Sr. Lucy, forwarded to the pope in a sealed envelope, and was to be made public by him no later than 1960. Its disclosure could have been a revelation of evil currents in the Vatican, and hence, a great embarrassment to the pope. It was most probably the “punch line” of all end times prophecies which would have foiled the hidden plans of the Masonic Lodge to overthrow and exile the pope from Rome, had it been laid bare to the world.

While the exact wording of the Third Fatima Secret is not known to this writer, it seems reasonable to speculate on the details of this important document by various clues which Our Lady provided in the earlier portions of the Fatima message that were made public. Several key passages from what has already been divulged will therefore be examined below in light of what has happened in the Church and the world in the latter part of the 20th century:

1) “The Church will undergo terrible persecutions.”

Catholics faithful to the true Mass, mandated for all time by Pope St. Pius V, were almost universally forced to depart the structures of the official “Church.” In effect, those faithful to the Church’s unchanging doctrine, worship and discipline have been cast into the “wilderness” by the policies of what has been purported to be the “hierarchy of the Church,” since the death of Pope Pius XII.

2.) “Russia will spread her errors all over the World.”

When, on December 1, 1989, then Soviet ruler and former KGB chief, Gorbachev, was officially welcomed by John Paul II to the Vatican, a physical place which, after all, is also in the world, the Soviet goal to propagandize the whole world could finally be said to have been completed.

3.) “The Holy Father will have much to suffer!”

The true pope remained in a cruel and helpless exile for 31 years, while being forced to witness the savage attack against the faithful, as media-star anti-popes Paul VI and John Paul II traveled the world spreading the “new Gospel” of Vatican II. This condition was perpetuated by the apparent fact that in the many years following his election in 1958, the true pope-in-exile had not one cardinal upon whom he could depend to publicly confirm his rightful claim to the papacy, because of fear, blackmail and intrigue. Likewise, he was afraid that his own sudden death would seriously jeopardize the continuation of the already obscured papal line, whose existence was known only to the captors of the true pope and the handful of old and timid cardinals still sympathetic to him. As long as this stalemate continued, the possibility that any other valid pope could be elected seems to have been precluded. The powers of darkness thus extended their control over the entire succession of false conciliar popes, without fear of any guidance coming upon them by the Holy Ghost, which is always bestowed upon true Vicars of Christ.

The Third Secret of Fatima, which was to have been released to the world by the pope, most likely contained a clear revelation that, by 1960, the forces of Antichrist would usurp the Chair of Peter and occupy the visible structures of the Church. Pope Pius XII kept the secret in a special cabinet in his bedroom during the final years of his pontificate. In 1957, it was reported in some parishes around the world that the pope had opened the secret, was horribly shocked by its contents, wept bitterly, and went into seclusion for nearly two weeks. The pope could have made the secret known on the spot, but he decided to wait instead, perhaps hoping that conditions would change for the better. Without doubt, the secret’s public disclosure would have caused a great scandal. The mentality of Pius XII at that time was that scandal had to be avoided at all cost. But this was in stark contrast to the admonition of Pope St. Pius X that: “It is better for scandals come out than for the truth to be covered up.”

It is almost certain that Pius XII would have ultimately acquiesced to Our Lady’s request, although he wanted to wait until the last minute, and planned not to reveal the secret to the world before January 1, 1960. But since its contents must also have been known to enemy agents, already highly placed in the Vatican at that time, its suppression would have been sought by them at any cost. The death of Pope Pius XII on 9 October 1958, just 14 months and 22 days before the start of the new decade, was most opportune for those who wanted to quash the secret. Thus, the catastrophe, which the secret’s early disclosure might have prevented, took place as planned, behind the sealed doors of the conclave.

When 1960 finally arrived, Pius XII’s legitimate successor had been swept aside, and in his place intruded the accused Rosicrucian, Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII), who had the effrontery to quash the message from the Mother of God with the deceitful excuse: “It is not meant for my time.” In what now appears to have been a mocking of Our Lady’s repeated warnings, the “good ‘Pope’ John” declared on October 11,1962, during his opening speech at the infamous Vatican Council II:

“We feel bound to disagree with these prophets of misfortune who are forever forecasting calamity as though the end of the world were imminent. And yet today, Providence is guiding us toward a new order of human relationships . . .” (Peter Hebblethwaite, Pope John XXIII, Shepherd Of The Modern World, 1985, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, Page 431)

It was perhaps not coincidental that the word “misfortune,” in Roncalli’s speech, (often translated as “doom”) was the same expression used by Our Lord at Rianjo, to describe the fate of the popes who, like the Kings of France, procrastinated in their compliance with Heaven’s requests.

What Roncalli hand in mind by a “new order of human relationships” would soon be demonstrated when he granted a private audience in March, 1963, to the daughter and son-in-law of Soviet Premier Khrushchev, the butcher of Catholics in the captive nations. The audience, which was of immense propaganda value to the Communists, coincided with the presentation of the “Balzan Peace Prize” to Roncalli. This would be a clear signal to the Communist world of the Vatican’s new orientation, since “peace” as defined by Marxist propagandists as:

“ . . . the condition that will be achieved when Communism rules the world.” (William Ebenstein, “Communism”; “Words Mean Different Things Under Communism and in a Democracy,” World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. IV; Ci-Cz, 1967, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, Chicago, page 726.)

Their meeting would set the stage for on-going collaboration between the Kremlin and Rome under the modern day antipopes, culminating 26 years later with the reception of Mikhail Gorbachev by John Paul II in the Vatican on 1 December 1989. The establishment of full diplomatic relations between the two, now friendly entities, soon followed.

Atheistic-socialism (now given new names in different places) today rules the world. Catholic worship as it had existed from time immemorial until the death of Pope Pius XII is now practically non-existent. And evidence is now emerging that the rightful pope was held in a cruel and hidden exile from 1958 to 1989, while the Church was ravaged from top to bottom. It can therefore be established that several portions of our Lady of Fatima’s published warnings, have been fulfilled.

The Prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi

The Third Secret of Fatima, which no doubt, holds the key to decoding the Apocalyptic riddle of the end times, perhaps even more clearly than other recent warnings from heaven, will not remain suppressed forever. In essence, it may have already been revealed centuries ago by the following prophecy attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, who foresaw that a then future great apostasy and persecution of the Church would be brought about through the false authority, or “schism” of an antipope:

“There will be an uncanonically elected pope who will cause a great Schism, there will be diverse thoughts preached which will cause many, even those in the different orders to doubt, yea, even agree with those heretics which will cause my Order to divide, then will there be such universal dissensions and persecutions that if those days were not shortened even the elect would be lost.” (Rev. Gerald Culleton, The Reign of Antichrist, 1951, Academy Duplicating Service, Fresno, California, page 130)

Some Catholics believe that the above scenario is not occurring today, even though unprecedented apostasy is evident worldwide. They concede that the usurpation of the papal chair by antipopes has taken place in the past, and might occur again in the distant future, but could not happen now. The “crisis in the Church,” they often contend, is simply the result of faulty interpretations of an ambiguous council, exacerbated by the policies of weak and vacillating, but true “popes.” Others clearly recognize that heresy has been officially promoted by the post-Pius “popes,” but accept erroneous “explanations” as to how such could supposedly happen. However, to the first pope and his successors was given the Divine pledge:

“Peter, I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not; and thou being converted confirm thy brethren.” (Luke 22:32)

Therefore, is it possible that four validly elected Popes in a row could have been so faithless or even mentally incompetent, so as to cause, in just 40 years, the Church’s progress of almost two millennia to be nearly brought to naught? Would not Almighty God have converted such individuals, or else, prevented them from becoming true Vicars of Christ in the first place?

For over three decades, there have been persistent rumors from Europe, that the last true pope to date, was the late Giuseppe Siri, who was forcibly exiled from Rome by the Church’s enemies, while false claimants were secretly put in his place. Now, in the dawning light of long suppressed warnings from Heaven, these reports are finally being given serious and deserved consideration. For it is known that similar intrigue has been carried out against the papacy more than once in past centuries.

Jacinta’s Vision of a Future Pope

Few books or articles on Fatima have dwelled upon or have even reported the vision of a future pope, which was seen by little Jacinta Marto, the youngest of the three Fatima seers. Reproduced below is a segment of Jacinta’s description of the pope she saw:

I see the holy Father in a very large house, on his knees before a table, with his hands over his face, crying. In front of his house, there are many people, and some are throwing stones at him, others are cursing him and saying very foul words to him. Poor little Holy Father! We must pray a lot for Him! (William Thomas Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima, 1947, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, page 92.)

In a reported conversation between two of the Fatima seers, Jacinta asked Lucy who also had seen the vision, if she could tell others more about it.

“‘Can I say I saw the holy Father and all those people?’ she asked.

“‘No,’ answered Lucia. ‘Don’t you see that makes part of the secret? And then it will be discovered?’” (William Thomas Walsh, pages 91-92.)

From this account it is evident that unusual circumstances involving the pope make up the essence of the Third Fatima Secret. It is also obvious that the pope in Jacinta’s vision is not securely quartered in the Vatican but is in a dangerous exile, in a private residence where he is vulnerable to assassination by an angry mob. This is likely the short-lived successor to the long suffering Vicar of Christ envisioned by Melanie of La Salette as the pope “who will not reign long.” His selection as pontiff may come about through emergency measures (logically undertaken by the last true pope-in-exile, before his death in 1989, as Fr. Gerald Culleton predicted in 1941:

“ . . . chosen by Divine intervention and probably by a method laid down by the exile.” (Rev. Gerald Culleton, The Prophets and Our Times, 1941, Academy Duplicating Service, Fresno, California, page 75)

Since no post-Fatima pope up to and including Pius XII and his rightful successor Giuseppe Siri, (nor even the modern-day antipopes) could fit into the scene described by Jacinta, this must be a future pope. And he is possibly the same, and not-to-distant pontiff who seems destined for a cruel execution, in the manner of Christ, as foretold in the prophecy of Pius IX:

“There will come a great wonder, which will fill the world with astonishment. This wonder will be preceded by the triumph of revolution. The Church will suffer exceedingly. Her servants and her chieftain will be mocked scourged and martyred.” (Rev. Gerald Culleton, The Prophets and Our Times, page 206)

The Promise of Christ

Today, confusion reigns as never before, even within the ranks of remnant Catholics, who are heroically clinging to the faith of their fathers. As awareness increases concerning the bogus character of the conciliar “popes,” yet another danger currently presents itself in thc form of an opinion, now being subtly introduced into traditional Catholic enclaves, so as to breed despair and defeatism, namely, that the papacy has been irreparably lost. This latest deception, however, may also involve heresy, since it seems to contradict the teaching of a dogmatic council of the Church:

“That which our Lord Jesus, the Prince of shepherds and great Shepherd of the sheep, established in the blessed apostle Peter, for the continual salvation permanent benefit of the Church, must of necessity remain forever, by Christ’s authority, in the Church which, founded as it is upon a rock, will stand firm until the end of time . . .

“Therefore if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the Lord Himself (that is to say by Divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole Church . . . let him be anathema.” (Rev. Norman Tanner, S.J. & Giuseppe Alberigo, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Vol. II, 1990, “First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ”; Chapter II: “The Continuation of St. Peter’s Primacy in the roman Pontiffs,” The Vatican Council [1870], Sheed & Ward and Georgetown University Press, Washington, page 813.)

Did the First Vatican Council teach that the perpetuity of the Roman Pontiffs, was guaranteed by Christ Himself? This interpretation seems to have been supported by the authors one of the most comprehensive catechisms in the English language, who wrote in 1899:

“Never in the history of the Catholic Church, has it been free of persecution. Whatever may be the differences between the sects, they unite against the Church . . .

“All Catholics acknowledge the Pope as Head of the Church. If there were antipopes, it is none the less true that someone was the true Pope. The existence of many pretenders to a throne does not exclude the claim of the true king . . .

“The Vatican Council declares that it is the will of Christ that till the end of the world there be successors to St. Peter . . .

“Hence, there will always be Popes, Bishops and faithful and God’s revealed truths will ever be found in the Catholic Church . . .” (Rev. Francis Spirago & Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Catechism Explained, 1899, Benzinger Brothers, New York, pages 242, 243, 224 & 235.)

Even in these dark days, Catholics should take heart in the promise of Christ that the gates of Hell will not prevail against his Church, as nothing which happens on earth occurs without the permission of Providence. There is good reason to hope that another true pope will soon emerge from holy obscurity (as is suggested by the prophecies of many Saints) and will reawaken his sleeping flock, dispersed for a generation into the wilderness, to lead them in a righteous march on Rome to take back the Vatican for the one, true Church. Such an event would be an incomparable blessing for the faithful, even if the pope were to live only long enough to accomplish, with the remaining handful of true bishops, the Consecration of Russia, and to expose and anathematize the false conciliar “popes,” and all their devilish works. The long-hidden enemy, within the “official church” and traditionalist ranks, would once and for all be forced to the surface for all to see. Then may the ancient serpent be finally cast out of the comfort of the Church’s physical structures and into the exterior darkness, “where there will be the weeping and gnashing of teeth.” This would at last convince a doubting world of the Divine origin of the Catholic Church. For the ultimate triumph of the Immaculate heart of Mary (and hence, the Church and her true pope) has been guaranteed by Heaven, and is as certain as her final crushing of the head of Satan, foretold at the beginning of time, as recorded in the first book of the Holy Bible:

“I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” (Genesis 3:15)

Our Lady of La Salette foresaw a pope who would suffer greatly, surviving many attempts on his life, but who would die, like his short-lived successor, before the final “triumph of the Church.” She warned: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Antichrist.”

One of the rarely published photos of Melanie and Maximim, of La Salette, is shown above. Why was the warning Our Lady, entrusted to them in 1846, so effectively hidden from the Catholic world by certain Church officials?

Portrait of Pope Leo XIII. Why was his Prayer to St. Michael twice re-written after his death?

Reproductions of the three Prayers to St. Michael, attributed to Pope Leo XIII, as they have appeared in successive editions of The Raccolta: (1) original Prayer #407 (sometimes listed as #446), was followed by; (2) the forgery, #410, which was replaced by; (3) the truncated #411, still familiar today.

The Fatima visionaries from left to right: Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto and Lucia dos Santos. Jacinta, following a vision, once described a future pope-in-exile, whom she saw was in grave danger. But, she was told by Lucy not to talk about the vision because it would “give away the secret.” Why have Vatican officials also prevented its disclosure since 1960?

St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) foretold an “uncanonically elected Pope who would cause a great schism,” “diverse thoughts” (heresies), “universal dissensions” and “persecutions.” Although the Great Western Schism, with its various antipopes would follow from 1378 to 1418, and split Catholics into three camps, its principal injury to the Church was not heresy nor persecution of the faithful, as in St. Francis’ prediction. Hence, he must have seen into the far distant future, and thus, our own time.