The Third Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima | The Fatima Center

From time to time it is good to remind readers of the Secret of Fatima. Thus, we take the opportunity to provide the known text on this 109th anniversary of the third apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and the revelation of the Great Secret to the three shepherd children, The Great Secret of Fatima[1] The Great Secret given by Our Lady to the three shepherd children consists of three parts. 1. The First Secret The first part was fully revealed in Sister Lucia’s Third and Fourth Memoirs, written at the command of her bishop, in 1941. This first part of the Secret of Fatima describes what Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco saw on that day. From Sister Lucia’s memoirs: “She opened Her hands once more, as She had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls [of the damned] in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the …