Three Secrets of Fatima

From May to October, 1917, three young Portuguese shepherds, Lucia Abobora dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, claimed to have witnessed an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On July 13 Mary is supposed to have entrusted three secrets - in the form of prophecies - to the young visionaries. Two of the secrets were revealed in 1941 in a document written by Lucia to assist with the canonization of her cousins, while the third was to remain secret, although the bishop of Leiria commanded Lucia to put it in writing and to present it to the Pope. Lucia herself chose the 1960 date for the secret to be revealed, because she said she thought "by that time it will be more clearly understood".

External links

• Vatican website's text of the three secrets, together with analysis by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and scanned images of the original documents.
• A detailed analysis of the document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, The Message of Fatima
• A 1980 interview with Pope John Paul II about his view of the Third Secret.