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The great unknown light of January 25, 1938. In Switzerland one could read a newspaper under the light. Radio communications were disrupted.
On July 13, 1917 Mary told the world through the three shepherd children that it must repent of
its sins. “You have seen Hell ---where the
souls of poor sinners go. To save them
God wills to establish throughout the world the devotion to my Immaculate
Heart. If people will do what I tell
you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. The war is going to end. But if they do not stop offending God,
another and worse war will break out in the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown
light, know that it is the great sign that God gives you, that He is going to
punish the world for its crimes by means of war, hunger, persecution of the
Church and of the Holy Father.”
Sadly, we did not listen and the world suffered the dire
consequences. Surely, the Lord used the
tragic war to save souls as many did come back to God. Since the world today is in much worse shape
morally, are we repeating the same mistakes and will face even worse
consequences?
The Great Unknown Light. On January 25-26, 1938 the night illuminated by an unknown light did come to pass
as Mary had prophesized and the world press covered it. The news clipping below is from the London
Times. The article says that it was
visible over the whole of Europe from Budapest to Gibraltar. Other sources say
that it was visible as far south as Australia and as far west as
California. People reported that it
looked like a big forest fire. In
Switzerland they could read the newspaper under the light. Magnetic storms
disrupted radio communications and caused problems with the news wires. For the New York Times
report on it, see
https://rosariumblogdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/fatima-1-26-1938.pdf.
The great unknown light, often called the Fatima Storm, looked something like the photos above, resembling a gigantic forest fire. Some startled people called the fire department.
https://rosariumblogdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/fatima-1-26-1938.pdf.
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| A news clipping from
the London Times regarding the great unknown light. |
Most
scientists believe that it was an unusually strong Aurora Borealis or Northern
Lights caused by intense sunspot activity, but other scientists simply cannot explain
it because the Fatima Storm does not fit the typical characteristics of an Aurora
Borealis. The Fatima Storm was red; almost
always it’s green/blue. It extended
below the 50th Parallel, which is rare. An Aurora Borealis never covers such a wide
area. It included most of the areas of
conflict in World War II. See the
appendix for some fascinating analysis.
The great unknown light, often called the Fatima Storm, looked something like the photos above, resembling a gigantic forest fire. Some startled people called the fire department. 
An Aurora Borealis
Mary said that the second world war would start during the
reign of Pius XI (1922 – 10 February 1939), but the official start of the war
is September 1, 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland during the reign of Pius XII (2
March 1939 - 1958). Is this really a
contradiction? Not at all. During the very night of the great unknown
light (January 25, 1938) Communist leaders were meeting in Moscow over a
sinister plan to propose to Nazi Germany to divide up Poland. This had historical precedent in that
Germany, Russia, and Austria each annexed a third of Poland which ceased to
exist as a country from 1795 – 1918 under the Third Partition. They correctly reasoned that the West would
blame Hitler and attack Germany. This
was in essence the start of World War II.
Furthermore, on March 12, 1938 Hitler invaded Austria which was annexed by Germany the next day. In October 1938 at a meeting in Munich the European powers appeased Nazi Germany by allowing it to take over the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia.
According to the sinister plan mentioned above, on August 23, 1939 the foreign ministers of Germany and the Soviet Union met and publicly agreed to a non-aggression pact while secretly agreeing to a partition of Poland. On September 1 Germany invaded Poland from the west and the allies declared war on Germany, but they were of no help except for an attempt to send equipment via Romania.
Not having an easy time, the Germans urged
the Soviets to invade according to the agreement. The Soviet Union waited for the
disintegration of Polish forces and finally invaded from the east on September
17. The Soviets had reason to be cautious. On August 15, 1920 when the Bolsheviks were
poised to overrun a weak Europe exhausted from the war, Poland with a great
mobilization of prayer defeated them in the Battle of Warsaw, commonly called
the Miracle on the Vistula or Cud nad Visła.
The Polish army, one of the larger and better
armies in Europe in 1939, was able to valiantly resist the onslaught from
two huge armies, one from the east and another from the west until October 6,
1939. However, Poland had a strong
underground resistance for the rest of the war while much of its air force
escaped and continued to fight very honorably in the Battle of Britain.
A Friend’s Rosary in the Normandy Invasion. I know personally how the rosary saved the life of a friend of mine……bless his soul. Stanley Belback was part of the third wave of the Normandy Invasion, charging up a steep slope with German bunkers at the top spewing out heavy machine gun fire. Soldiers were being mowed down all around him. Finally, Belback was hit in the chest, but he was wearing a rosary around his neck. Miraculously the bullet glazed off of a rosary bead instead of going right through it. He lived to tell about it. Stanley showed me the broken rosary. Of course, his mother and young wife constantly prayed the rosary for him.
Eight Jesuit missionaries from Germany occupied the rectory of
Our Lady of Assumption Church and School in Hiroshima. They have
a similar story of surviving a nuclear blast unharmed, perhaps even more
miraculous since they were only four miles from ground
zero although a nearby hill did give some protection. Everything was destroyed for many blocks
around, but the priests survived with only scratches and minimal damage to the
home. Fr Hubert Schiffer believed that “we survived
because we were living the message of Fatima. We lived and prayed the rosary
daily in that home.” This is reminiscent
of Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel of the Bible in which the three young men survived being thrown into
Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery furnace. See http://catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2015/08/09/the-priests-who-survived-the-atomic-bomb/
and the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2MRo3M3Fs.
http://www.rosary-center.org/fatimams.htm
- Excellent concise description of the Fatima Message.
Sister Lucia never accepted that this phenomenon could be attributed to an aurora borealis. Here is what she says in her third memoire:
By June 4, 1940 over 338,000 allied troops, mostly British, evacuated
Dunkirk, France, which virtually surrendered in an unfavorable armistice on
June 22, six weeks after being invaded on May 10. Germany had already
taken over Belgium in 18 days; Holland, Denmark, and Norway in a matter of a
day or two. Poland had fought both Germany and the Soviet Union for five
weeks. Portugal, Spain, and Sweden remained
neutral. On June 10, Italy entered the war against the allies. A
year later on June 22, 1941 Germany broke the non-aggression pact and invaded
the Soviet Union. See https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-invasion-europe-fall-of-france-1940/.
After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941, the United States entered the war in Europe and the Far
East. Two days later Britain
declared war on Japan and much of the world was on fire. .
The flames brought on 77 million military and civilian deaths or
3.35% of the world’s population of 2.3 billion people, including 15-20 million in
the Holocaust inside and outside of concentration camps. In that number are 6 million Jews, one
million Poles, 70,000 handicapped, and many Christians. Among them were two great
Polish saints, St. Maximillian Kolbe and St. Edith Stein, both killed in Auschwitz. Millions more were maimed and wounded. The
rest is tragic history. Detailed figures
can be found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties.
A Friend’s Rosary in the Normandy Invasion. I know personally how the rosary saved the life of a friend of mine……bless his soul. Stanley Belback was part of the third wave of the Normandy Invasion, charging up a steep slope with German bunkers at the top spewing out heavy machine gun fire. Soldiers were being mowed down all around him. Finally, Belback was hit in the chest, but he was wearing a rosary around his neck. Miraculously the bullet glazed off of a rosary bead instead of going right through it. He lived to tell about it. Stanley showed me the broken rosary. Of course, his mother and young wife constantly prayed the rosary for him.
The Fatima Message
saved the Franciscans from the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Japan. In the 1930s Polish Franciscans had a mission
in Japan. Among them was St. Maximilian
Kolbe. He founded a Japanese version of the Knight of
the Immaculata Magazine, which reached a circulation of 65,000 in 1936 or
800,000 world wide by 1938. When he founded a new friary in Nagasaki, where
most Japanese Catholics live, the future saint inexplicably insisted that it
be built on the side of a mountain and not near the center of the city. His
Franciscan brothers did not understand, but went along with it. See
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Seconds
after the detonation of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9,
1945. Imagine the power of a hydrogen
bomb, which is hundreds of times more powerful. Pray the rosary for peace. |
At
11:02 am on August 9, 1945 the United States dropped a five ton atomic bomb on
Nagasaki instead of Kokura, the primary target because of cloud cover. President Truman hoped that the great
destruction and loss of lives would force the Japanese to surrender. Most of the city was leveled; the temperature
reached over 7000oF with 600 miles per hour winds; over 40,000
people died immediately; many were vaporized.
Those who looked at the flash became blind. Over 70,000 were injured; thousands more
suffered from radiation; and many more contracted all kinds of cancers years
later.
But miraculously the friary was untouched and
the monks inexplicably did not suffer any radiation poisoning or aftereffects
as thousands of other people did. The mountain
protected them from the force of the blast.
The following video link of the Nagasaki bombing details the bombing of
Nagasaki and shows the stark horror of war in general and nuclear war in
particular:
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The
smoke didn’t clear yet in a typical scene.
The destruction in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was similar. Only a few badly damaged buildings were left
standing and people were pulverized. In
Hiroshima 70,000 died instantly, over 140,000 total within a year. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are among the most
Catholic cities in Japan. Only a few
walls of the beautiful Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Hiroshima remained. This could happen to us. Pray the rosary for peace. |
Both the Polish Franciscans and the German
Jesuits believed they were spared because they put into practice the
Fatima message that Mary herself gave us over 100 years ago in 1917 (see http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-school/aurora-borealis/). Mother Mary asked us to: repent; pray, pray the
rosary daily for peace; foster a devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary;
and Penance - offer daily sacrifices and crosses for sinners because "so many souls are going to hell and nobody is praying for
them". Everyday offer up the daily trials,
frustrations, failures, sickness, accident, etc. (crosses) to the Lord through Mary for
the conversion of sinners. In this way
each one of us can help to save souls. That
will make you a saint someday and they will thank you in Heaven.
Note: For a beautiful musical composed and produced by a Franciscan University student, Michael Cygan, for the Our Lady of Fatima Centenary, click on Fatima Musical: 2017 (Oficjalne) Przedstawienie na Stulecie Objawień or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y669RdFpF5c. The website www.fatimathemusical.com. What a way for a college student to spread the Fatima Message! Wow!
Note: For a beautiful musical composed and produced by a Franciscan University student, Michael Cygan, for the Our Lady of Fatima Centenary, click on Fatima Musical: 2017 (Oficjalne) Przedstawienie na Stulecie Objawień or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y669RdFpF5c. The website www.fatimathemusical.com. What a way for a college student to spread the Fatima Message! Wow!
Sources
https://rosariumblogdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/fatima-1-26-1938.pdf
- New York Times Report.
http://www.solarstorms.org/SS1938.html - Solar storms.
http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-school/aurora-borealis/ - How the Aurora Borealis works.
http://edutechbook.com/lib/january%2025%201938%20the%20fatima%20storm%20solar%20storms%20space.pdf
– more detailed technical analysis of the Fatima Storm.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-invasion-europe-fall-of-france-1940/
- Photos and information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
- Statistics of World War II dead and wounded world-wide.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/moniqueocampowrites/2015/08/14/the-japanese-legacy-of-st-maximilian-kolbe/
- St. Maximilian Kolbe and the bombing of Nagasaki.
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-33769566
- Nagasaki bombing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq_Wye43TM
– Fascinating video on the bombing and aftermath.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/.../fire-fury-hiroshima-nagasaki-an
- Photos of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2015/08/09/the-priests-who-survived-the-atomic-bomb/
- Eight German Jesuits survive the Hiroshima blast only four miles from Ground.Zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5XS2tzVJUg - German Jesuits survive the atom bomb at
Hiroshima.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2MRo3M3Fs - Video of the atomic bomb dropped over
Hiroshima.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html
- The message of Fatima and the secrets.
https://www.ewtn.com/fatima/message.asp
- Extensive description, the Fatima
Message and the secrets.
https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/how-to-live-the-message-of-our-lady-of-fatima/
- How to live the Fatima Message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZBxEJz1v8
– a well done documentary on the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima and her
message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y669RdFpF5c
– a beautiful musical on the story of the Fatima apparitions and message done
by “Michael Cygan” fatimathemusical@gmail.com
a recent graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Other Articles in the Series on Our Lady of
Fatima
(186) What Made Jacinta and
Francisco New Saints 100 Years After Mary’s Appearances in Fatima, Portugal?
(188) Our Lady of Fatima at
100…...the First Apparition on May 13, 1917 & the Second on June 13, 1917
(190)
Our Lady of Fatima at 100…...the July 13, 1917 Apparition…….To Hell and Back
(192)
OUR LADY OF FATIMA AT 100: The August 13 & 19 Apparitions and Jail
(193)
OUR LADY OF FATIMA AT 100……..The September 13, 1917 Apparition
(195) OUR LADY OF FATIMA AT
100……..The Apparition of October 13, 1917 And the Miracle of the Sun
(6) Reflections: Our Public
Square Prayer Rally in Gallipolis-Ohio
(95) International Pilgrim
Virgin Statue of Fatima Visit; Its History & Message
(96) International Pilgrim
Virgin Statue of Fatima Visit (II): Its History & Consecration of the World to the Immaculate Heart
(100) A Review of the Public Square Rosary Rally in Gallipolis, Ohio
Saturday October 13, 2012 http://paulrsebastianphd.blogspot.com/2012/11/100-review-of-public-square-rosary.html
(143) Rosary in the Park:
the Public Square Rosary Rally in Gallipolis, Ohio….....You can organize one in
your community.
(177) The Consecration to
the Immaculate Heart and the Course of World History
Appendix
The Fatima Storm
Newsletter
N°20 – 30 January 2016
Dear Friends,
On
the 13th of July 1917, Our Lady confided to the little shepherds :
« If men do not refrain from offending God,
another and more terrible war will begin during the pontificate of Pius
XI. When you see a night that is lit by a strange and unknown light, you
will know it is the sign God gives you that He is about to punish the world
with war and with hunger, and by the persecution of the Church and the Holy
Father. »
Twenty
years later, on the night of the 25th to the 26th of January 1938, the sky was
aflame with a strange glow. From 9 o’clock in the evening until 2 o’clock
in the morning, the night sky was illuminated with a red light. This
phenomenon was perceived in most of the countries of Europe, from Norway to
Gibraltar, from Portugal to Greece, as well as in North Africa and in the
United States and Canada. At the time, everyone believed there was a
gigantic fire. The next morning, all the newspapers were talking about
it. The phenomenon was attributed to an aurora borealis. The
Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France described it in the following
way:
An aurora borealis of magnificent beauty was visible in France
and in almost all of the countries of Europe, from Tuesday the 25th of January
1938, in the evening, until Wednesday the 26th, in the morning. In the
Swiss Jura, in England, as in the regions of the west, the south-west and the
south-east of France, as far as Provence, and even further south, in Italy and
Portugal, in Sicily and in Gibraltar, and even in North Africa, the phenomenon
showed an exceptional intensity for these latitudes. (…)
A bluish green glow, pale and pretty, covered the sky from the
north-east to the north-west. Gradually, the sky above lit up and formed
an irregular, red vault. A sort of crimson cloud formed at the north-east
and moved towards the north-west as if pushed by a mysterious breath
of wind. It moved back, undulated, expanded, faded, rekindled, while
huge jets, whose color changed from blood-red to orange-red to yellow, soared
towards the zenith.
As
for Le Nouvelliste de Lyon it reported:
An aurora borealis of exceptional magnitude furrowed the
skies of Western Europe yesterday evening. It caused an upheaval in a
number of départements where the first reaction was the belief that it
was a gigantic fire. The sky was alight like an enormous open fire in movement,
creating a vivid blood-red glow. The edge of the fire was white, as if the sun
was going to rise. Doubtless, it was an aurora borealis, but
according to Professor Pers of the Faculty of Science at Grenoble, one of an
exceptional magnitude.
To such a phenomenon by the expression ‘aurora borealis’
is, in fact, inappropriate. Actually, aurorae borealis generally
happen at the north pole and the areas immediately surrounding it, but very rarely
below the latitude of 50°. Moreover, they never have this allure of being
a gigantic fire with a predominantly red coloring. While they can come in
different colors, the dominant color is green and not red. Finally, they
have never been so widespread. While they can sometimes stretch over a
very long way, they form, for the most part, a ribbon about ten kilometers
long.
Sister Lucia never accepted that this phenomenon could be attributed to an aurora borealis. Here is what she says in her third memoire:
Your Excellency is aware of how, a few years ago, God showed
this sign which the astronomers wanted to be known under the name of aurora
borealis. I don’t know; but it seems to me, that if they looked at the
thing carefully, they would see that this was not, and could not be an ordinary
aurora borealis, given the manner in which it presented itself. Whatever
it was, God used it to make me understand that His justice was ready to strike
at the guilty nations, and because of this, I began to ask for, with insistence,
the communion of reparation and the consecration of Russia.
Even
today, the astronomers are divided as to the origins of this phenomenon,
because nothing similar has ever been seen before or since: it is a
phenomenon unique in history. Another astonishing point: the
regions where the glow was visible correspond exactly to the zone of
Christianity which was going to be set alight by the Second World War!
And
even if it was the most exceptional aurora borealis ever seen on this
earth, the fact that it had been announced twenty years beforehand, constitutes
a truly exceptional prophecy, along with the miracle of the dancing sun on the
13th of October 1917. These two prophecies announcing extraordinary
natural phenomena, and observed by a very great number of witnesses, give to
the apparitions at Fatima an authenticity which is also exceptional and which
confer on them a place completely apart in the history of apparitions. No
other apparition, either before or since, has been authenticated in such an
extraordinary way.
Therefore,
if Our Lady has chosen such means to authenticate her message, its importance
is equally exceptional. And so, it is particularly important to know it
well, and to make it well known.
In union of prayer in the Immaculate
Heart of Mary.
Yves de Lassus
President, Cap Fatima 2017
President, Cap Fatima 2017
Some News from the
Project
For the next first Saturday of the
month, the Notre Dame du Lys chapter has had the good idea to send us
the hour of the Mass celebrated in the spirit of the devotion of reparation as
asked for by Our Lady. You will find the details on the page accessible
by the new button ‘1st Saturday of the month’ situated at the top of the
website. Henceforth, we will list all the places and times of Masses for
the First Saturdays of the Month which we receive.
A number of people have confided
prayer intentions to us. It seemed to us pertinent to propose them to
everyone by putting them on a special page accessible by the new button
‘Rosaire’ in the menu situated at the top of the website. Remember what
Sister Lucia said to Father Fuentès : « The Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we
live, gave a new impetus to the recitation of the Rosary. In such a way,
there is no problem, no matter how difficult, temporal, or especially
spiritual, with reference to the private life of each of us, of our families,
families throughout the world, or religious communities, or even the lives of
peoples and nations, there is no problem, I say, no matter how difficult, that
we cannot resolve by praying the Holy Rosary. »
At this time, almost 1,500 people
have consecrated themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on one of the dates
proposed since last December. The actual number is higher because many
people have told us that they have consecrated themselves by organizing their
own preparation, and so, without registering to receive the daily
meditation. To respond further to Our Lady’s call, spread this devotion
around you (see HERE the dates proposed for the consecrations).
The
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
- The rosary
- The first Saturdays of the month
- The consecration to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary
- Sacrifices for the conversion of sinners
- The scapular
Read
more
- The Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
- The Story of the apparitions at Fatima
- The Message and the Secret
