Albert Jack's Ten-minute Mysteries by Albert Jack

Author:Albert Jack
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2007-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

atmospheric gases, as has been suggested, then astronomers would have recorded these. That is exactly what happened when stratospheric dust made the sun appear to be blue and red to the people of China in 1983, or the blue moon was seen for two years after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.

It is hard to believe that so many well-educated and rational people could either make their story up or be fooled by what might amount to a vast con trick. But for those who claim some sort of collective hallucination at Fatima, there is the evidence of witness reports from as far away as thirty miles from people going about their normal business.

Some years later, in 1931, Lucia claimed Jesus himself had visited her in Rianxo, Galicia, to teach her two new prayers and he had given her a message for the Pope. Soon afterwards the Catholic Church added its considerable weight to the debate by announcing they were ‘approving the visions as worthy of belief’. So, with the official stamp of approval from the Vatican, the Blessed Virgin as she appeared at Cova da Iria became known throughout the world as Our Lady of Fatima. By then little Lucia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos had become Sister Lucia of Jesus, following her ordination as a Carmelite nun.

In 1942, as the Second World War was at its bloodiest, Sister Lucia finally decided to reveal the first of the secrets confided in her by the Virgin Mary all those years ago. The first was a terrifying vision of Hell, which she recorded in her third memoir, published towards the end of that year:

Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be beneath the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and all the time the shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent.

Fortunately, as she goes on, ‘This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, during the first Apparition, to take us to heaven? Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.’

The second secret included Mary’s instructions on how to save souls from Hell and convert the world to Christianity:

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 in the world.

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