History of the Consecration and Related Events
Letter of Sr. Lucia to Pope Pius XII requesting the
Consecration of the World and Russia to the Immaculate Heart
Most Holy Father, Humbly prostrated at your feet, I come as the last sheep of the fold entrusted to you to open my heart, by order of my spiritual director.
I am the only survivor of the children to whom our Lady
appeared in Fátima (Portugal) from the 13th
of May to the 13th of October 1917. The Blessed Virgin has granted me many
graces, the greatest of all being my admission to the Institute of Saint
Dorothy. (To here this is copy of the sketch the Bishop sent me.)
I come, Most Holy Father, to renew a request that has already
been brought to you several times. The request, Most Holy Father, is from our
Lord and our good Mother in Heaven.
In 1917, in the portion of the apparitions
that we have designated "the secret," the Blessed Virgin revealed the end of the
war that was then afflicting Europe, and predicted another forthcoming, saying
that to prevent it She would come and ask the consecration of Russia to Her
Immaculate Heart as well as the Communion of reparation on the first Saturday.
She promised peace and the conversion of that nation if Her request was attended
to. She announced that otherwise this nation would spread her errors throughout
the world, and there would be wars, persecutions of the Holy Church, martyrdom
of many Christians, several persecutions and sufferings reserved for Your
Holiness, and the annihilation of several nations.
Most Holy Father, this remained a secret until 1926 according to the express
will of our Lady. Then, in a revelation She asked that the Communion of
reparation on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months be propagated
throughout the world, with its conditions of doing the following with the same
purpose; going to confession, meditating for a quarter of an hour on the
mysteries of the Rosary and saying the Rosary with the aim of making reparation
for the insults, sacrileges and indifferences committed against Her Immaculate
Heart. Our good Heavenly Mother promises to assist the persons who practise this
devotion, in the hour of their death, with all the necessary graces for their
salvation. I exposed the request of our Lady to my confessor, who tried to have
it fulfilled, but only on the 13th of September 1939 did His Excellency the
Bishop of Leiria make public in Fatima this request of our Lady.
I take this opportunity, Most Holy Father, to ask you to bless
and extend this devotion to the whole world. In 1929, through another apparition, our Lady
asked for the consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, promising its
conversion through this means and the hindering of the propagation of its
errors.
Sometime afterwards I told my confessor of the
request of our Lady. He tried to fulfill it by making it known to Pius
XI.
In
several intimate communications our Lord has not stopped insisting on this
request, promising lately, to shorten the days of tribulation which He has
determined to punish the nations for their crimes, through war, famine and
several persecutions of the Holy Church and Your Holiness, if you will
consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with a special mention for
Russia, and order that all the Bishops of the world do the same in union with
Your Holiness. I truly feel your sufferings, Most Holy Father! And, at
much as I can through my humble prayers and sacrifices, I try to lessen them,
close to our Lord and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Most Holy Father, if in the union of my soul with God I have
not been deceived, our Lord promises a special protection to our country in this
war, due to the consecration of the nation by the Portuguese Prelates, to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary; as proof of the graces that would have been granted to
other nations, had they also consecrated themselves to Her.
Now, Most Holy Father, allow me to make one more request, which
is but an ardent wish of my humble heart; that the feast in honour of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary be extended throughout the whole world as one of the
main feasts of the Holy Church.
With the deepest respect and reverence I ask for the Apostolic
Blessing. May God protect Your Holiness.
Tuy, Spain, 2nd of December of 1940.
From Novos Documentos de Fátima,
Fr. Anthony Mario Martins, SJ (Oporto: 1984). English edition: Documents
on Fatima & Memoirs of Sr. Lucia. (Alexandria, SD: Fatima Family
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