Fatima shrine project in St. Petersburg outlined - Omnes

On July 13, 1917, during the third apparition of the Blessed Virgin to the little shepherds Francisco and Jacinta at Fatima, Our Lady spoke to them about Russia. She said that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world, but that in the end she would be converted and her Immaculate Heart would triumph. She added that she would return to ask for the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, which she did a few years later. In fact, on June 13, 1929, she appeared to Sister Lucia in Tuy and asked the Holy Father to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart.
Saint John Paul II made that consecration on March 25, 1984, and since then, more than 20,000 churches have been built in Russia and about 70 percent of its inhabitants have been baptized. Although the consequences of atheistic communism are still enormous, and the percentage of practicing faithful is not high, the promoters of the sanctuary assure that Russia cannot be said to be an atheistic country but a religious nation …