" Lúcia later set this prayer to music and a recording exists of her singing it.

When Our Lady appeared to Catherine Labouré, Bernadette Soubirous, Lúcia dos Santos at Fátima, or to the children at Beauraing later, in 1932, and Mariette Beco in 1933, these dramatic affirmations of divine power in an increasingly irreligious / secular age, a transformation more strongly felt in the Western world, offered ' proof ' of the power of heaven against " the onslaughts of secularizing governments ".

* Sr. Lúcia wrote detailed accounts or " memoirs " of her cousins for their canonization process, later adding a detailed account of the apparitions and information about her family.

In the 20th century, in the last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, Sister Lúcia, one of the most famous visionaries of Our Lady, said that the Virgin appeared to her as Our Lady of Mount Carmel ( holding the Brown Scapular ).

Lúcia, moved by what she said was an interior impulse, called out to the crowd to look at the sun.

However, in the Blue Army's Spanish magazine, Sol de Fatima, in the September 1985 issue, Sister Lúcia said that the ceremony did not fulfill the Virgin Mary's request, as there was no specific mention of Russia, and " many bishops attached no importance to it ".

In 2001, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone issued a statement, claiming that he had met with Sister Lúcia, who reportedly told him, " I have already said that the consecration desired by Our Lady was made in 1984, and has been accepted in Heaven.

Paul Kramer and Nicholas Gruner, Russia has never been specifically consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by any Pope simultaneously with all the world's bishops, which is what Lúcia in the 1985 interview had said Mary had asked for.

Some sources, including Canon Barthas and Cardinal Ottaviani, said that Lúcia insisted to them it must be released by 1960, saying that, " by that time, it will be more clearly understood ", and, " because the Blessed Virgin wishes it so.

Lúcia said that the Lady emphasized Acts of Reparation and prayers to console Jesus for the sins of the world.

Lúcia said that Mary's words were " When you make some sacrifice, say ' O Jesus, it is for your love, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

'" At the first apparition, Lúcia wrote, the children were so moved by the radiance they perceived that they involuntarily said " Most Holy Trinity, I adore you!

" Lúcia also said that she heard Mary ask for these words to be added to the Rosary after the Gloria Patri prayer: " O my Jesus, pardon us, save us from the fires of hell.

Lúcia wrote that she and her cousins defined " sinners " not as non-Catholics but as those who had fallen away from the church or, more specifically, willfully indulged in sinful activity, particularly " sins of the flesh " and " acts of injustice and a lack of charity towards the poor, widows and orphans, the ignorant and the helpless " which she said were even worse than sins of impurity.

In a letter to a colleague after his election, he vowed to perform the Consecration of Russia which Lúcia said Mary had asked for.

Francisco Marto ( June 11, 1908 – April 4, 1919 ) and his sister Jacinta Marto ( March 11, 1910 – February 20, 1920 ), also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos ( 1907 – 2005 ) were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917.

In 1920, shortly before her death at age nine, Jacinta Marto reportedly discussed the Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary with a then 12 year old Lúcia Santos and said:

She said that after striking up a conversation with him, the child transformed himself into the Child Jesus, who reprehended Sister Lúcia for not doing more to promote the five First Saturdays devotion.

Cardinal Bertone reported that Lúcia Santos, one of the seers of the Fátima apparitions, said that the consecration requested by the Virgin Mary was fulfilled and accepted in heaven, and that everyone should live out the consecration personally by faithfully wearing the Brown Scapular.

When Sister Lúcia was asked in an interview why the Blessed Virgin appeared as Our Lady of Mount Carmel in her last apparition, she replied: " Because Our Lady wants all to wear the Scapular ...

Most of his children books were set in the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (" Yellow Woodpecker Farm " or " Yellow Woodpecker Ranch "), a small farm in the countryside, and featured the elderly ranch owner Dona Benta (" Mrs. Benta "), her two grandchildren — a girl, Lúcia (" Lucia ") who is always referred to only by her nickname, Narizinho (" Little Nose ", because she had a turned-up nose ) and a boy, Pedrinho (" Little Pete ") — and a black servant and cook, Tia Nastácia (" Aunt Anastacia ").

Later, Sister Lúcia reported that on February 15, 1926 while emptying a garbage can outside the garden, saw a child she thought she recognized.

The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto.

On May 13, 1917, ten year old Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto were herding sheep at a location known as the Cova da Iria near their home village of Fátima, Portugal.

Lúcia, the sole surviving seer at the time, indicated that it was the sign foretold and so apprised her superior and the bishop in letters the following day.

Lúcia Santos ( left ) with her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, 1917

The first secret was a vision of hell, which Lúcia describes in her Third Memoir, as follows:

The second secret included Mary's instructions on how to save souls from hell and convert the world to the Christian faith, also revealed by Lúcia in her Third Memoir:

In 1929, Sister Lúcia reported that Mary returned and repeated her request for the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart.

Sister Lúcia reportedly saw Mary in private visions periodically throughout her life.

It is believed this was because Sister Lúcia had continued to receive more revelations and the evidence needed to be examined in the course of proceedings for her possible canonization.

" Sister Lúcia died on February 13, 2005, without making any public statement of her own to settle the issue.

Sister Lúcia, the only Fátima visionary to survive into adulthood reported that the Blessed Mother came to her in her convent at Pontevedra, Spain with the following statement:

The Three Secrets of Fátima consist of a series of visions and prophecies allegedly given by an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three young Portuguese shepherds, Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, starting on 13 May 1917.

When asked by the Bishop of Leiria in 1943 to reveal the third secret, Lúcia struggled for a short period, being " not yet convinced that God had clearly authorized her to act.

In 1943, Lúcia fell ill with influenza and pleurisy, which had killed her cousins.

Finally, in mid-October, Bishop Silva sent her a letter containing a direct order to record the secret, and Lúcia obeyed.

In 1936 and again in 1941, Sister Lúcia claimed that the Virgin Mary had predicted the deaths of two of the children during the second apparition on June 13, 1917.

According to a December 2001 Vatican press release ( subsequently published in L ' Osservatore Romano ), Lúcia told then Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone in an interview that the secret had been completely revealed and published-that no secrets remained.

One year after World War II had started, Sister Lúcia asked Pope Pius XII to consecrate the world and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

John Paul I had met Lúcia Santos while he was Patriarch of Venice, and was deeply moved by the experience.

They were illiterate but had a rich oral tradition on which to rely, and they worked with their cousin Lúcia, taking care of the family's sheep.

In her biography of Jacinta, Lúcia had already established that Jacinta had told her of having had many personal visions outside of the Marian visitations ; one involved a pope who prayed alone in a room while people outside shouted ugly things and threw rocks through the window.

It caused controversy in the September 1985 issue when it reported that one of the Fatima visionaries, Sister Lúcia dos Santos claimed that the Vatican had not complied with the Virgin Mary's request to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.