Thank you Jason for uploading these videos. Compare the message and the tone with the interview she gave in 1957! Sister Lucy’s Last Public Interview - 1957 Fr. Augustin Fuentes A reader recently noted that the interview Sister Lucy gave to Fr. Augustin Fuentes in 1957, is always partially reported, and asked TIA if we could post the full text. To assist in this request we are now posting the most complete text available of the 1957 interview with our own translation from the original Spanish. Fr. Augustín Fuentes was the Mexican priest named vice-postulator of the cause of beatification for Francisco and Jacinta. In that interview Sr. Lucy said that Our Lady told her: “The last means that God will give to the world for its salvation are the Holy Rosary and My Immaculate Heart.” This important conversation of December 26, 1957 was the last public interview of Sr. Lucy. After it, permission was refused for any other interviews and she was effectively silenced and completely hidden away for the next several decades. Another very jovial Sr. Lucy appeared 10 years later in 1967 during Paul VI’s visit to Fatima. This Sr. Lucy, square-faced, cheerful and robust – incredibly different from the oval faced, sad and pale Sr. Lucy who spoke to Fr. Fuentes - was seen more regularly starting in 1982, after John Paul II’s visit to Fatima. [See our Two Sister Lucys' analysis] These are the authentic words of her 1957 conversation with Fr. Fuentes, which came from the records of the official archivist of Fatima, Fr. Joaquín María Alonso, CMF. Fr. Alonso spoke with Sr. Lucy and publicly testified that her statements to Fr. Fuentes in 1957 were genuine and true. This text is from his book, La verdad sobre el Secreto de Fátima, Fátima sin mitos [The Truth about the Secret of Fatima without Myths ]. The text has the approval and imprimatur of Archbishop Sánchez of Santa Cruz, Mexico. What follows is the literal translation of Fr. Fuentes' text reporting what he heard "from the lips of" the seer of Fatima. TIA Interview of December 26, 1957 Speaking to the sisters of Motherhouse of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Mexico on May 22, 1958, Fr. Fuentes said, “I want to tell you the last conversation I had with her [Sister Lucy], which was on December 26 of last year. It was in the convent, where I found her very sad, pale and drawn.” A very grave Sister Lucia in 1957 He then proceeded to read Sister’s Lucy’s words to him at the December 26, 1957, interview: “Father, the Blessed Virgin is very sad because no one has paid attention to her Message, neither the good nor the bad. The good, because they continue on the road of goodness, but without paying mind to this Message. The bad, because of their sins, do not see God’s chastisement already falling on them presently; they also continue on their path of badness, ignoring the Message. But, Father, you must believe me that God is going to punish the world and chastise it in a tremendous way. “The chastisement from Heaven is imminent. The year 1960 is on us, and then what will happen? It will be very sad for everyone, and far from a happy thing if the world does not pray and do penance before then. I cannot give more details, because it is still a secret. By the will of the Blessed Virgin, only the Holy Father and the Bishop of Fatima can know the secret. Both have chosen, however, not to open it in order not to be influenced by it. (1) “This is the third part of the Message of Our Lady, which still remains secret until 1960. Tell them, Father, that the Blessed Virgin said repeatedly – to my cousins Francisco and Jacinta as well as to me – that many nations would disappear from the face of the earth, that Russia would be the instrument of chastisement from Heaven for the whole world if the conversion of that poor Nation is not obtained beforehand. …” cont. below
Cont. from above A decisive battle with the Devil Sr. Lucy also told me: Fr. Augustin Fuentes “Father, the Devil is fighting a decisive battle against the Virgin and, as you know, what most offends God and what will gain him the greatest number of souls in the shortest time is to gain the souls consecrated to God. For this also leaves unprotected the field of the laity and the Devil can more easily seize them. ”Also, Father, tell them that my cousins Francisco and Jacinta made sacrifices because they always saw the Blessed Virgin was very sad in all her apparitions. She never smiled at us. This anguish that we saw in her, caused by offenses to God and the chastisements that threaten sinners, penetrated our souls. And being children, we did not know what measures to devise except to pray and make sacrifices. …” We cannot wait for Rome to speak Referring to the vision of Hell that Our Lady showed her and Jacinta and Francisco, she said: “For this reason, Father, it is my mission not just to tell about the material punishments that will certainly come over the earth if the world does not pray and do penance. No, my mission is to tell everyone the imminent danger we are in of losing our souls for all eternity if we remain fixed in sin. “Father, we should not wait for a call to the world from Rome on the part of the Holy Father to do penance. Nor should we wait for a call for penance to come from the Bishops in our Dioceses, nor from our Religious Congregations. No, Our Lord has often used these means, and the world has not paid heed. So, now each one of us must begin to reform himself spiritually. Each one has to save not only his own soul, but also all the souls that God has placed on his pathway. Two last remedies to save the world “Father, the Blessed Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the world, but I understood this for three reasons: “The first is because she told me that the Devil is engaging in a battle with the Virgin, a decisive battle. It is a final battle where one party will be victorious and the other will suffer defeat. So, from now on, we are either with God or we are with the Devil; there is no middle ground. “The second reason is because she told me, as well as my cousins, that God is giving two last remedies to the world: the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And, being the last remedies, that is to say, they are the final ones, means that there will be no others. 'Our Lady never smiled. She was always very sad' “And the third, because in the plans of the Divine Providence, when God is going to chastise the world He always first exhausts all other remedies. When He sees that the world pays no attention whatsoever, then, as we say in our imperfect way of talking, with a certain fear He presents us the last means of salvation, His Blessed Mother. If we despise and reject this last means, Heaven will no longer pardon us, because we will have committed a sin that the Gospel calls a sin against the Holy Spirit. This sin consists in openly rejecting – with full knowledge and will – the salvation that is put in our hands. “Also, since Our Lord is a very good Son, He will not permit that we offend and despise His Blessed Mother. We have as obvious testimony the history of different centuries where Our Lord has shown us with terrible examples how He has always defended the honor of His Blessed Mother. “Prayer and sacrifice are the two means to save the world. As for the Holy Rosary, Father, in these last times in which we are living, the Blessed Virgin has given a new efficacy to the praying of the Holy Rosary. This in such a way that there is no problem that cannot be resolved by praying the Rosary, no matter how difficult it is - be it temporal or above all spiritual - in the spiritual life of each of us or the lives of our families, be they our families in the world or Religious Communities, or even in the lives of peoples and nations. “I repeat, there is no problem, as difficult as it may be, that we cannot resolve at this time by praying the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary we will save ourselves, sanctify ourselves, console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls. “Then, there is devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our Most Holy Mother, holding her as the seat of mercy, goodness and pardon and the sure door to enter Heaven. This is the first part of the Message referring to Our Lady of Fatima, and the second part, which is briefer but no less important, refers to the Holy Father.”1. In 1943, the Bishop of Fatima José Correia da Silva authorized Sister Lucia to write down the Third Secret during her bout with pleurisy, which threatened her life. On June 17, 1944, this document was officially placed in his hands. When Sister Lucia gave the letter to Bishop da Silva, she told him that he could read it, but he refused. Instead, he ordered the sealed document to be kept in the safe of the Episcopal Curia. Pope Pius XII also chose not to read the message, and left it in the care of Bishop da Silva until 1957, when the sealed envelope was sent to Rome at his request. https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/g23ht_Interview.html
From the 1957 interview: For this reason, Father, it is my mission not just to tell about the material punishments that will certainly come over the earth if the world does not pray and do penance. No, my mission is to tell everyone the imminent danger we are in of losing our souls for all eternity if we remain fixed in sin. Now in 1992 she says that the annihilation of nations does not refer to material punishments, which definitely will not occur. Russia has converted. The triumph of the immaculate heart has already occurred. This contradicts not only Fatima itself but every other major apparition that took place in the last 150 years or so: Akita, Garabandal, Amsterdam, Medjugorje, La Salette, you name it.
In which part of the video do you hear Lucia saying that the conversion of Russia has already happened and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart too? When does she say this process is complete?
Carlos Evaristo is not a person authorized to speak on behalf of Sr. Lúcia, much less after using as proof of her words just a few isolated excerpts from a video with the poorest graphic and sound quality from which very little can be learned. The fact that he starts this video with praise for himself should be enough to cause some distrust in the viewer.
This same Evaristo man says (after the minute 11:25 in video below) that the conversion of Russia should be understood as a conversion to a path of "religious freedom and free will of man"... Well, if he is right, he should look at the religious freedom they have in the Putinist Russia today and in the invaded lands of "mother Russia".
I watched the video a few years ago and I felt that Carlos Evaristo looks more like a "plant" of the Deep Church sent to guard anyone who wants to talk to "Sister Lucy". He was there when the Indian cardinal came to visit her. He was again present when the Filipino Cardinal talked to "Sister Lucy" about the Fatima secrets. It is like he is closely monitoring what she says to her visitors, and not just translating languages.
From his sporadic appearances on Portuguese television, I don't think he's a bad person and he's done interesting cultural work, I simply don't trust him as Sr. Lúcia's spokesperson. He seems very vain and arrogant in this matter. In fact, I only trust completely the documents that Lúcia wrote, all of them very well framed, referenced and signed. All other written or audiovisual documents that attribute words to her, in my opinion, should be considered with some caution because they may have some interpretative nuances resulting from problems of translation, understanding and subjectivity of those who communicated with her.
Agree. And there so many. And they differ. I feel more comfortable within my soul keeping it all very simple.
Although if he was a Deep Church "plant", and if the "Sister Lucy" that Carlos Evaristo is interviewing is in fact not the real one, then would he need to monitor her words? Perhaps he is more concerned with the Cardinals discerning that something is not right. I know what you mean about his manner, but no - I believe he is genuine but has been mislead. I say that because, as revealed by Dr. Chojnowski at 41:00 in the video above with Kevin Davis, Carlos Evaristos in his early meeting with "Sister Lucy" (not sure what date?) was so concerned that something was not right with her and that she was a fake, that he actually went to the Police in Portugal. They sent him to the renowned Pathologist, Dr. Zugibe, who reassured Carlos that she was the true Sister Lucy. So I believe he became convinced that he was interviewing the real "Sister Lucy". Dr. Zugibe is on video saying in frustration that, when he talks about when he interviewed "Sister Lucy" concerning the 1984 Consecration by St. John Paul II, which she said had been accepted by Heaven, people immediately jump in to object - saying that the woman he interviewed was not the real Sister Lucy. And that is what I believe too. I also suspect that Dr. Zugibe came to the wrong conclusions and was mislead himself.
Also possible. Yes, this is well documented. Imagine that! The guy freaked out and actually went to the police! Can anyone find out when this meeting took place?
I assume you are referring to this video: If you are referring to this video, in the moments you mention, I only hear the voice of a person called Carlos Evaristo, therefore, your discredit should be directed primarily at him and not at Sr. Lúcia, the visionary of Fátima. Because in other parts of the video you see some poorly recorded excerpts of Sr. Lúcia's voice in which I cannot obtain that information from her voice, even though I am a native Portuguese speaker (European Portuguese) like Sr. Lúcia. And I'm not saying that she didn't say the words Carlos Evaristo attributes to her, just that he couldn't prove it.
Wait, Sr. Lucia said that Mary requested the consecration of Russia, right, not the Rus? I could see this being mistranslated and I've only ever read about Fatima in English. I just looked through Portuguese Wikipedia entries and it does look like it was Russia - saying the Rus would have been rather odd. I did, however, find this cool photo that I hadn't seen before:
Yes that’s the video. But Evaristo supposedly conveyed the words spoken by Sister Lucy. And there were other witnesses present. Do you think they could have misreported what Sister said. Did they lie? One other thing. I read somewhere that the fake Sister Lucy (if this indeed occurred) spoke with an accent typical from the Vizeu area whereas the original Lucy of course did not come from Vizeu. Since you are a native Portuguese speaker can you confirm this?
regarding the conversion of Russia, go to 10:11 mark also, it was the voice of the reporter who said this.
