But one thing I am unsure of at times, is when the seers and that is as children, Lucia and I believe are currently both Blessed Jacinta and Blessed Francisco actually relayed the message, say, that Russia would spread her errors around the world. We can say they said it in 1917, the year of the apparitions if I am not mistaken but it seems a Catholic living back then would not have known the substance of that message until after the Russian revolution. And I think this was told to the public in 1923 or possibly even 1930. I’m using figures to the best of my recollection.
**Jacinta and Francisco Marto are ‘Blessed’. Sister Lucia process toward sainthood has been started. In 1917, Lucia saw, spoke and heard the apparition of Mary; Jacinta only heard and saw; Francisco saw but did not hear.
Lucia was the one who shared the prophecy that Russia would spread its errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecution of the Church. Jacinta also heard it. Lucia said that they didn’t know what the Virgin was talking about, and they thought she was talking about a woman!
It is my understanding that this information was given to her spiritual director prior to the writing of her memoirs. I think the bishop of the diocese also received the information.**
There is also a question about when the “great sign in the sky” happened that warned of the next war, World War II (the actual message goes some;thing like "when you see a great sign in the sky, you will know that another worst war is about to occur). This is purported to have happened in by two sources, early 1938 or early 1939. With that I find no fault, I just figure the writers might get confused too, because it seems this did happen. The sky was colored red by one account or others might say it was like an Aurora Buorealis that was abnormally bigger than usual seen by all/most of Europe. But I believe this “great sign in the sky” was a subsequent message to Sister Lucia (some time after 1917) and then, that was not really given to the public again, until about 1940. Now, I am not all that positive about my research. This is a confusing issue.
The Virgin told the children, “When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that it is the sign that God gives you whereby He will punish the world through war and persecution of the Church.” The mysterious ‘light’ was meant for Lucia, not for the whole world.
I’ve mentioned this before and the other guy said, “you must not understand Fatima”, no, I think I do. And I’m not making anything serious out of this. I just wonder what the exact timeline is. It would seem to involve when the Seers had the apparitions, received the messages and then when the messages were relayed to the world. In the case of Russia, one might wonder if we find out “after the fact” though maybe we would not have known what a threat Russia and Communism was to the world.
**Lucia was directed to write her memoirs of the apparitions by her spiritual director(s) three times. Each time, something more was revealed. However, it is safe to assume that both the bishop of the diocese and the pope knew of all this prior to the events occurring. **
