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The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, jailed Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, has called on the Vatican to reveal what he claims are undisclosed elements of the secret of Fatima.
Agca made the request in an “Open Letter to the Vatican” following the death of Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last visionary from Fatima, Portugal. Agca’s letter was sent to the Rome newspaper La Repubblica, which published it Feb. 20.
For years, Agca has maintained that his shooting of the pope was tied to the secrets of Fatima and to the end of the world. At his last Italian trial for the shooting in 1986, Agca interrupted proceedings repeatedly with unintelligible ramblings about Fatima and at one point proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ.
In his latest letter, written from an Istanbul prison where he is serving time for his role in a previous shooting, Agca expressed his sadness at Sister Lucia’s death and said, “The secret of Fatima is connected with the end of the world.”
He called on the Vatican to “reveal to the world the name of the man considered by the Vatican as the ‘final Antichrist,’ so that humanity can repent and prepare in a better way for the end of the world.”
At the Vatican, Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes and a longtime acquaintance of Sister Lucia, dismissed Agca’s letter as pointless.
catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0501020.htm
Agca made the request in an “Open Letter to the Vatican” following the death of Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last visionary from Fatima, Portugal. Agca’s letter was sent to the Rome newspaper La Repubblica, which published it Feb. 20.
For years, Agca has maintained that his shooting of the pope was tied to the secrets of Fatima and to the end of the world. At his last Italian trial for the shooting in 1986, Agca interrupted proceedings repeatedly with unintelligible ramblings about Fatima and at one point proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ.
In his latest letter, written from an Istanbul prison where he is serving time for his role in a previous shooting, Agca expressed his sadness at Sister Lucia’s death and said, “The secret of Fatima is connected with the end of the world.”
He called on the Vatican to “reveal to the world the name of the man considered by the Vatican as the ‘final Antichrist,’ so that humanity can repent and prepare in a better way for the end of the world.”
At the Vatican, Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes and a longtime acquaintance of Sister Lucia, dismissed Agca’s letter as pointless.
catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0501020.htm