This is the book. It was published
in Fatima, Portugal in 1978.
This copy in the English language
was purchased from the Religious Gift
Store in the International Headquarters
of the Blue Army there at Fatima.
(This file consists of pictures and their
explanation. This opening letter is
appropiate to start these pictures with.
Most of these pictures are from this book.)
Brothers and Sisters,
Devote your attention to this book, for it
may alter the significance of your life. The pictures within it (there
are more pictures than what are here.) and the message it reveals
are not only the most evocative, but, above all, the most penetrating of
the many you may have seen and heard in the course of all your traveling
and pilgrimages.
The unique characteristic of Fatima is that
it consists of the Gospel which the Lord has given us for the century in
which we live: a century of invention, discovery and enthusiasm, but also
a century of sin. It recalls the great day to which Genesis refers. "
God created man, man discovered the universe,
and the serpent tempted man that he should declare himself equal to God
and deny due praise to the Creator, crying out: I will not serve."
Today, as then, the Lord God descends upon
the lost paradise of man, and once more offers salvation unto him.
Redeemed by Jesus Christ, fallen into atheism,
intoxicated with new inventions and by the repeated wiles of the serpent
of the devil, men of the twentieth century are shackeled by reason and
have lost their soul. But at Fatima again they hear the Lord's victory
proclaimed; "And in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph." This
prophecy is the promise of Mary, Mother of the Church. In Her visitations
to Fatima, She was to repeat the "Magnificant" of Her first visit as the
Savior's Mother.
Brothers and Sisters, do you not yet understand
why you may leave Fatima imbued with new ideas for you life? Because
the Heart of the Mother of God has brought you here, and the grace of Fatima
spells the conversion of your heart.
May your Guardian Angel pray with you.
May the Mother's smile shine upon you.
Glory be to God in the Highest, to the Father,
to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Father Luciano Guerra
Rector of the Sanctuary of Fatima.
Following are many pictures from this book:
This historic picture shows the crowd assembled for the 6th
and last Appearance of the 13th of October, 1917. The
crowd was of about 70,000 people. During the Appearance,
the "Miracle of the Sun" took place.
Another picture of the last Appearance. It has stopped
raining and the sun has come out from the clouds.
The crowd looks at it wide-eyed and see its
spasmodic movements.
Crowd after Miracle
The Basilica of Fatima. Beneath the nearby oak tree,
the three children used to play. Here they waited for
Our Lady who passed over the tree when coming and
leaving. Today the names of millions who have joined
the Blue Army are buried here.
The house where Francisco and Jacinta were born.
The House where Lucia was born.
Francisco and Jacinta's parents.
Lucia and her family.
The first photograph of the three witnesses, taken
on the 13th of July, 1917, on the day of the third
Appearance. From left to right:
Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia.
Lucia, dressed in the habit of a Dorothean Sister, with the
Bishop of Leiria, Mons. Jose Alves Correla de Silva.
As Fatima was within his diocese, it was he who carried
out the investigation into the apparitions on behalf of the
Church Authorities. In 1930, he was to declare them
credible, and to approve the worship of the
Madonna of Fatima.
Fatima Monument to Pius the Twelfth,
the Pope who Consecrated Portugal and
the whole world to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, while the
Second World War was raging.
White marble group erected in 1958
on the Cabeco, the hillock which
overlooks Fatima, in memory of
the third appearance of the Angel.
Aljustrel: the well in the farm of Lucia's family, where the
Angel appeared before the three young shepherds for
the second time.
Another view of the Sanctuary of Fatima, which shows
the great entrance steps. It is on these that the outdoor
ceremonies are held.
The Official Statue ot the Virgin of Fatima, worshipped
in the Chapel of the Apparitions. In the fifties this statue
was taken all over the world, thus taking Her Message of Peace
and hope to mankind. From then on She became known
as the Pilgrim Madonna.
Statue of the Madonna of Fatima, solemnly crowned
"Queen of Peace and of the World" by
the Papal Nuncio on the 13th of May, 1946.
On the thirteenth of each month, particularly between
May and October, the great square holds hundreds of
thousands of pilgrims who take part in the night wake
in honor of the Madonna of Fatima.
Sanctuary of Fatima:
The High Altar and the Apse with a
high-relief of the
Coronation of the Virgin.
Sanctuary Basilica of Fatima,
where the two young witnesses,
Francisco and Jacinta are buried.
The tower above the facade is
sixty-five meters high and has
a carillon of fifty-two bells. The
statue of the Virgin Mary can be
seen half way up. In the foreground
of the square is the small Chapel of
the Apparitions, built precisely on the
spot which grew the ilex where the
Mother of God stood.
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