In an apparition at Fatima in 1917, Our Lady asked that the Holy Father together with the bishops of the world consecrate the world to her Immaculate Heart. Paul looks at how, after a strange series of events, this finally came to be in 1984…
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When Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917, She asked that the Holy Father together with the Bishops of the world, consecrate the world – which would include the intention of Russia – to Her Immaculate Heart. She promised if this was done there would be peace.
Even though several Popes did consecrate the world, Sr Lucia who at the time was the last remaining living visionary from the Fatima apparitions, said that Mary told her it did not fulfil Her request because it was not in union with the Bishops of the world.
Then in 1981, after the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, he was rushed to hospital, the bullet being just millimetres from a major blood artery. John Paul attributed his survival to the intervention of Our Lady. He said, ‘a mother’s hand guided the bullet’. It was when he was recovering in hospital that John Paul realised the 3rd secret of Fatima was in fact about him, because, as Pope, he had already read the confidential file.
John Paul from his hospital bed, made his first consecration of the world to Mary. But it was not until 1984 that this was done in union with the Bishops, did Sr Lucia confirm Our Lady said it had fulfilled her request. Just 5 years later Communist Europe began dissolving with the collapse of the Berlin Wall. All this, from just one prayer of consecration to Mary from the Pope and the Bishops!
