Fourth Memoir

At the second Apparition on June 13th, 1917, Francisco was deeply impressed by the light which, as I related in the second account, Our Lady communicated to us at the moment when she said: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way which will lead you to God." At the time, he did not seem to grasp the significance of what was happening, perhaps because it was not given to him to hear the accompanying words. For this reason, he asked later:


"How many years longer will you stay here?" he asked.


Jacinta confirmed the very same thing, saying:


He remarked sometimes:


After this Apparition, whenever, they asked us if Our Lady had said anything else, we began to give this reply: "Yes, she did, but it's a secret." If they asked us why it was a secret, we shrugged our shoulders, lowered our heads and kept silent. But, after the 13th of July, we said: "Our Lady told us we were not to tell it to anybody," thus referring to the secret imposed on us by Our Lady.

The M+G+R Foundation Comments - Note that the visionaries received personal and spiritual secrets on June 13th, 1917. Then, on July 13th, Our Lady gave them the visions and secrets pertaining to the whole world, and to the events of the last hundred years. Our Lady also told them not to reveal part of these secrets until a later time. (See pp. 126, 160-161 of "Fatima in Lucia's Own Words," as referenced below.)

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