The apparitions that became the prophetic messages that are attributed to the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Fatima that occurred between 13th May and 13th October 1917 have been in the news recently. The heavily jewish pundits of the former premier US conservative periodical ‘National Review’ have been using its centenary – among other things – to try and beat the drum for a war with Russia. (1)
This is all possible because Our Lady mentioned Russia being at the centre of a global apocalyptic vision of future when she talked about what might transpire if humanity did not rediscover its devotion to her and the Church. Our Lady in particular recommended the devotion of the Rosary to Catholic believers as a way to potentially avert a coming apocalyptic calamity.
The mention of Russia in the prophetic words associated with Our Lady of Fatima is one of a long list of sacred things to be abused by philo-Semitic warmongers and their jewish paymasters. In my previous article I have detailed its use to smear criticism of jews, Judaism and/or Israel as ‘anti-Semitic’ by so-called ‘Catholic authors’. (2)
The fact of the matter is that Our Lady referred specifically to Communism as Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, then Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote:
‘Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions. The first and second parts of the “secret”—which are here published in sequence so as to complete the documentation—refer especially to the frightening vision of hell, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Second World War, and finally the prediction of the immense damage that Russia would do to humanity by abandoning the Christian faith and embracing Communist totalitarianism.’ (3)
Bertone’s point is that the February and then the October Revolutions in the Russian Empire in 1917 are central to the message of Our Lady of Fatima.
This is supported by Sister Lucia – one of the three children who were visited by Our Lady at Fatima – who wrote in 1982 that:
‘The third part of the secret refers to Our Lady's words: ‘If not [Russia] 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' (13-VII-1917).
The third part of the secret is a symbolic revelation, referring to this part of the Message, conditioned by whether we accept or not what the Message itself asks of us: ‘If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, etc.'.
Since we did not heed this appeal of the Message, we see that it has been fulfilled, Russia has invaded the world with her errors. And if we have not yet seen the complete fulfilment of the final part of this prophecy, we are going towards it little by little with great strides. If we do not reject the path of sin, hatred, revenge, injustice, violations of the rights of the human person, immorality and violence, etc.
And let us not say that it is God who is punishing us in this way; on the contrary it is people themselves who are preparing their own punishment. In his kindness God warns us and calls us to the right path, while respecting the freedom he has given us; hence people are responsible.’ (4)
Notice that Sister Lucia focuses purely on ‘the errors of Russia’ and how these have ‘invaded the world’, which suggests – not a wide interpretation of ‘all evil comes from Russia’ – but rather the poison of ‘godless Communism’ so-to-speak, which infiltrated and influenced nearly every corner of the world during the twentieth century supplanting Christianity and specifically Roman Catholicism in many countries and societies.
What Sister Lucia doesn’t do – and neither did Bertone for that matter – is suggest that it is Russia itself or its people that are the problem, but the rot that first afflicted Russia – i.e., ‘godless Communism’ and its value systems – has spread around the world.
This therefore can only be a direct and specific reference to Marxism viewed as a manifestation of diabolic opposition to Christianity via the medium of materialistic temptation.
This is reinforced by reading the words said by Our Lady to the three children:
‘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 say to 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 Pontificate 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 shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.’ (5)
We can see in Our Lady’s words concerning the ‘consecration of Russia’ and the way that she deplores the future crimes of the government of the Soviet Union towards the people of the world.
She is referencing Marxism as an opposing and antagonistic value system to Christianity – as well as diabolic plot of sorts – rather than framing Russia as a geopolitical unit or the Russian people outside the context of the Soviet government as the opponents of Christianity.
Indeed Our Lady rather views both Russia as a country and its people as a nation as being victims of ‘godless Communism’ not its agents.
This is supported by Pope John Paul II’s letter to Sister Lucia of 19th April 2000 when he writes:
‘The successive events of 1989 led, both in the Soviet Union and in a number of countries of Eastern Europe, to the fall of the Communist regimes which promoted atheism. For this too His Holiness offers heartfelt thanks to the Most Holy Virgin. In other parts of the world, however, attacks against the Church and against Christians, with the burden of suffering they bring, tragically continue. Even if the events to which the third part of the “secret” of Fatima refers now seem part of the past, Our Lady's call to conversion and penance, issued at the start of the twentieth century, remains timely and urgent today. “The Lady of the message seems to read the signs of the times—the signs of our time—with special insight... The insistent invitation of Mary Most Holy to penance is nothing but the manifestation of her maternal concern for the fate of the human family, in need of conversion and forgiveness.’ (6)
Thus we can see that Pope John Paul II explicitly stated that the visions and prophecies of Our Lady of Fatima concern the threat of ‘godless Communism’ not that of Russia itself or its people per se.
Having thus established this; I note that a grossly disproportionate amount of the officials of the Bolshevik party were jewish. Although as a total of the jewish population there were not many jewish Bolsheviks in the October Revolution itself. (7)
In addition to the fact that jews were represented both significantly and disproportionately among the very bureaucrats and officials who joyfully enacted the famous anti-Christian genocidal purges in Russia during the 1930s to the 1950s.
Thus, when Our Lady of Fatima was condemning ‘godless Communism’; she was condemning both it and the disproportionately jewish professional communist revolutionaries who spread it – successfully or unsuccessfully – around the world.
References
(1) http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447490/fatima-100-years-may-13-1917-russia-errors-francisco-jacinta-marto-canonizations-sister-lucia-dos-santos
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(3) http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html
(4) Ibid.
(5) Ibid.
(6) Ibid.
(7) Orlando Figes, 1997, 'A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924', 1st Edition, Pimlico: London, p. 676
(8) Bernard Wasserstein, 2012, ‘On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War’, 1st Edition, Profile: London, pp. 19-20