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INFORMATION ON 3RD SECRET OF FATIMA

    On 8/31/41, Sr Lucia wrote her 3rd memoir elucidating some
details of Jacinta's life.  In this 3rd memoir, Sr Lucia for the
1st time mentioned that the Secret was in 3 distinct parts.  She
wrote, "The Secret is composed of three distinct parts, and I shall
disclose two of them."
    The first is the vision of hell and the designation of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary as the supreme remedy offered by God to
humanity for the salvation of souls.  Our Lady said,

    "In order to save them, God wishes to establish in the
    world devotion to My Immaculate Heart."

    The second is the great prophecy concerning a miraculous
peace which God wishes to grant to the world through the
consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the
practice of communions of reparation on the 1st Saturdays of the
month.

    "If people attend to my requests, Russia will be converted
    and the world will have peace."

And there is also the great announcement of terrible punishments if
people persist in not obeying her requests.  Sr Lucia stated that
at that time she was not permitted to reveal the 3rd part of the
secret.
    Bishop da Silva was given permission to read it, but he did
not want the responsibility.  He tried to get it to the Holy
Office, but Rome refused to receive it.  It was then agreed that if
Bishop da Silva happened to die, the envelope would be entrusted to
Cardinal Cerejeira, the Patriarch of Lisbon.
    In 1957 the Holy Office demanded the text of the 3rd
secret, which until then had been kept at the palace of the bishop
of Leira.  The auxiliary Bishop Venancio was entrusted with the
delivery of the sealed document to Bishop Cento, then Apostolic
Nuncio to Lisbon.
    On 4/16/57, the sealed envelope arrived in Rome.  It was
placed in the office of Pope Pius XII, in a little chest bearing
the note, "Secret of the Holy Office".
    It appears that Pope Pius XII did not read the secret.
According to Cardinal Ottaviani and Monsignor Capovilla, secretary
of Pope John XXIII, the envelope was still sealed when Pope John
XXIII opened it in 1959, one year after the death of Pope Pius XII.
Pope Pius XII had apparently decided to wait until 1960.  He died
on 10/9/58 without having read it.
    In 1957, Sr Lucia confided to Fr Fuentes: "The Most Holy
Virgin has told me that the devil is about to engage in a decisive
battle against the Virgin... and the devil knows what most offends
God, and what will make him gain the most souls in the shortest
possible time, he does everything to win consecrated souls from
God, for in this manner he will succeed in leaving the souls of the
faithful defenseless, and so he will lay hold of them more easily."
    On 12/25/57, Sr Lucia told Fr Fuentes, the Postulator of
the beatification causes of Jacinta and Francisco: "The Blessed
Virgin is very sad, for no one attaches any importance to her
message.  Neither the good nor the bad.  The good continue on their
way, but without paying attention to the message.  I cannot give
any other details, since it is still a secret.  Only the Holy
Father and His Excellency, the Bishop of Fatima would be able to
know it in accordance with the will of the Blessed Virgin.  But
they haven't willed to know it as they did not want to be
influenced."
    In 1959 there was a great wave of devotion in all Italy to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  On 9/13/59 all the bishops of Italy
solemnly consecrated Italy to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
    On 8/17/59 Pope John XXIII had the envelope brought to him
at Castogandolfo, by Mosignor Philippe, then an official of the
Holy Office.  Pope John XXIII did not immediately open the
envelope but stated: "I am waiting to read it with my confessor."

    The secret was read a few days later, according to
Monsignor Capovilla.  Assistance in reading the Portuguese was
given by Monsignor Paulo Jose Tavarez of the Secretariat of State.
Later John XXIII had it read by Cardinal Ottaviani, Prefect of the
Holy Office.  On 2/8/60 it was suddenly learned through a simple
Portuguese press agency communique that the 3rd secret of Fatima
would not be published, and that it probably never would be
disclosed.  The Vatican communique ended: "Although the Church
recognizes the Fatima apparitions, She does not desire to take the
responsibility of guaranteeing the veracity of the words the three
shephard children said that the Virgin Mary had addressed to them."
    Bishop Venancio, on his own initiative, decided to launch
an appeal to all the bishops of the world and attempted to organize
a world day of prayer and penance for the following October 13, but
the Vatican turned a deaf ear to this proposal, and nothing was
done.  This did immense harm to the Fatima cause.  It was from this
date, after this public disregard for the 3rd secret, that devotion
to the Most Blessed Virgin began to decrease in a perceptible and
then alarming manner in the Church.
    This fault was to have incalculable consequences.  For by
disregarding the prophecies and requests of Fatima, it was the
Virgin Mary -- it was God Himself -- who had been disregarded, who
had been ridiculed in front of the world.  The conditional
punishment announced through the maternal warning of Our Lady was
in consequence destined to be accomplished tragically, inevitably
by disobeying the message of the Virgin.
    Cardinal Ottaviani related that Pope John XXIII placed the
Secret "in one of those archives which are like a very deep, dark
well, to the bottom of which papers fall and no one is able to see
them anymore."  Pope Paul VI straightway adopted the same attitude
toward the 3rd secret.
    The Virgin had asked that the secret be made public in 1960
because, as Sr Lucia told Cardinal Ottaviani, "in 1960, the Message
will appear more clear."  Other statements from Sr Lucia have said
that "the punishment predicted by Our Lady in the third secret
has already begun."
    We are now in the period of which the message speaks.  We
are now living through the 3rd secret.  We are witnessing the
events that it announces.
    Catholics throughout the world by 1960 were waiting for the
Pope to open the letter and reveal the 3rd secret.  But Pope John
XXIII and the subsequent Popes have greatly disappointed the
faithful by refusing to reveal its contents.
    Why this is so we are not sure.  In Pope John XXIII's
"Journal of a Soul", the diary of his life, he says the Second
Vatican Council was a success because of the Blessed Mother's
intervention.  Pope John XXIII had read the secret of Fatima and
said that the secret did not pertain to the reign of his
pontificate.  Why several Popes did not reveal the secret is a
mystery.
    There is continuing controversy concerning why Popes since
Fatima have not revealed the 3rd secret.  Scholars disagree on
whether or not the 3rd secret was meant only for the eyes of the
Popes or if it was to be released to the general public.  The
comment by Pope John XXIII and others upon reading the secret --
indicating that it did not pertain to their pontificates -- lends
credulity to this argument.  Also, Pope John Paul II is under
Mary's protective mantle, and he has not released the contents
either.  It seems that the 3rd secret was to be made available to
the world from may sources.
    On 10/11/92, an interview took place between Sr Lucia and
Anthony Cardinal Padiyara of India, Bishop Francis Michaelappa of
India, and Fr Francisco Pacheco of Fort Ceara, Brazil.  Sr Lucia
was asked by Cardinal Padiyara, "Do God and Our Lady still want the
Church to reveal the Third Secret?"  Sr Lucia answered, "The Third
Secret is not intended to be revealed.  It was only intended for
the Pope and immediate Church heirarchy.  Our Lady never said that
it was to be revealed to the public by 1960 at the latest.  The
Secret was for the Pope."  The controversy continues.
    The secrets of Fatima still have not been released by the
Church, but through the intervention of the Blessed Mother at
apparition sites we have a good idea of the contents.
    We do know from the Akita message of 10/13/73 and the
5/13/90 message of Fr Gobbi that the secret seems to deal with the
apostasy and chastisement.
    "The Blessed Virgin has told us," confided Sr Lucia to Fr
Fuentes, that "many nations will disappear from the face of the
earth, and Russia will be the instrument of heavenly punishment for
the world, if we do not obtain beforehand the conversion of that
poor nation."
    Bishop Venancio named the late Fr Alonso in 1966 as the
official expert on Fatima.  Fr Alsonso concluded that the 3rd
secret refers mainly to a spiritual chastisement which will be far
worse, and even more fearsome, than famine, wars, and persecution,
for it concerns souls and their salvations or their eternal
perdition.  His work consisted of 14 volumes which, unfortunately,
he was forbidden to publish.  Before his death, however, on
12/12/81, he was able to make known his conclusions in various
pamphlets and numerous articles in theological journals.
    In a series of letter in 1969-1970, Sr Lucia reveals more:
"It is indeed sad that so many people let themselves be dominated
by the diabolical wave that is sweeping the world, and that they
are blinded to the point of being incapable of seeing error!  Their
principle fault is they have abandoned prayer; in this way they
have become estranged from God, and without God everything fails.
The devil is very cunning and looks for our weak points in order to
attack us.  If we are not diligent and careful to obtain strength
from God, we shall faill, for our age is very wicked and we are
weak.  Only the strength of God can keep us on our feet."
    Sr Lucia wrote: "Let people say the rosary every day.  Our
Lady stated that repeatedly in all her apparitions, as if to
fortify us against these times of diabolical disorientation, so
that we would not allow ourselves to be deceived by false doctrines
.. Unfortunately, the great majority of people are ignorant in
religious matters and allow themselves to be led in any direction.
Hence, the greate responsiblity of one who has the task of leading
them... A diabolical disorientation is invading the world,
deceiving souls!  It must be resisted."
    On 9/16/70, Sr Lucia wrote: "Our poor Lord, He has saved us
with so much love and He is so little understood!  So little loved!
So badly served!  It is painful to see such great confusion, and in
so many persons who occupy positions of responsibility!  The fact
is the devil has succeeded in bringing in evil under the appearance
of good; the blind are beginning to lead others, as the Lord tells
us in His Gospel, and souls are allowing themselves to be deceived.
Gladly I sacrifice myself and offer my life to God for peace in His
Church, for priests and for all consecrated souls, especially for
those who are deceived and misguided!"
    Sr Lucia insists that, "the Virgin knew that these times of
diabolical disorientation were to come."  To someone who was
questioning her on the content of the 3rd secret, Sr Lucia replied,
"It's in the Gospel and in the Apocalypse, read them."  She also
confided to Fr Fuentes that the Virgin Mary made her see clearly
that "we are in the last times of the world."

    Cardinal Ratzinger in August 1984 said that the 3rd secret
concerned the "dangers which threaten the faith and the life of
Christians."  Responding to the question, "Why is the faith in
crisis?", he stated, "The dangers threatening the faith, the
importance of the last times, and the fact that the prophecies
contained in this Third Secret correspond to what Scripture
announces."
    On 9/10/84, Bishop Amaral of Leira, Portugal, declared in
the great hall of the Technical University in Vienna, "The Secret
of Fatima speaks neither of atomic bombs nor of nuclear warheads,
nor of SS20 missiles.  Its content concerns only our faith.  To
identify the secret with catastrophic announcements or a nuclear
holocaust is to distort the meaning of the message.  The loss of
faith of a continent is worse than the annihilation of a nation;
and it is true that the faith is continually diminishing in
Europe."  Fr Alonso's thesis is now publicly confirmed by the
Bishop of Fatima.  The message foretells a terrible crisis within
the Church.  It is the loss of the faith, which the Immaculate
Virgin predicted would occur in our era, if her requests were not
sufficiently carried out.  This loss of faith and all it entails is
the drama that we have been witnessing since 1960.

    So we must ask why have such good and saintly men in the
Church such as Pope John Paul II not disclosed the 3rd secret?  In
1980, while speaking in Fulda, Germany, John Paul II stated in
response to a question about the 3rd secret that Lucia's text does
speak of chastisements.  In response to another question, he stated
that "the chastisements cannot be averted, it is too late."  He
stated that "the die was cast.  [The chastisements] can be
mitigated by praying the rosary."  He reiterated that he, as his
predecessors, preferred to postpone publication so as not to
encourage the world power of communism to make certain moves.
    These questions also shed light on why he has not
undertaken any papal-directed and comprehensive effort to reverse
the continual and rapid deterioration of the Church.  Pope John
Paul II said at the Fulda meeting, "No, the Church cannot be
reformed at the present moment."  He, too, chose not to disclose
the 3rd secret.
    Understood in its depth and extent, John Paul's statement
can be shocking: "so as not to encourage the world power of
communism to make certain moves."  For the Pope to come to such a
conclusion illustrates how accurate the message must be.
    Fr Malachi Martin in "The Keys of This Blood" writes about
this issue: "In that 'Third Secret', Lucia's words are so explicit
and so verifiable -- and therefore so authentic -- that, were the
leaders of the Leninist Party-State to know these words, they
would in all probability decide to undertake certain territorial
and militaristic moves against which the West could have few if any
means of resisting, and the Church would be plunged into further
and deeper subjugation to the Party-State."  This is the
seriousness of Lucia's words.  The capitalist West could be
entrapped by the USSR.  In Vatican parlance, Lucia's words have
dire geographical meaning.  They must not be treated as pious and
devotional outpourings.  Fatima relates to the fierce politics of
nations.  Ever since Pope John XXIII opened and read those words,
the Vatican has treated them gingerly.  Fatima has been
politicized.  John Paul II from the start has gone along with the
politicization.  The secret has to be buried, as Cardinal Ottaviani
said in 1957, "in the most hidden, the deepest, the most obscure
and inaccessible place on earth.  If there was one dominant element
to the Third Secret, it is Russia."
    "It must also be added, however, that the anti-Church
partisans in the Vatican bureaucracy and throughout the Church
abhor anything savoring devotion to Mary, to Fatima, and to divine
revelation.  They have forsaken the divine faith of Catholicism, of
which Mary, the Mother of God, is an integral part.  They also know
the present Pope is under the special protection of Mary.  This
Mary has said so many times to the visionaries of the world and
most notably to Fr Gobbi when she said, "he is the Pope of my
secret."  When Mary says, "and I will receive his sacrifice," she
seems to point to a violent death of Pope John Paul II -- soon.
    What is John Paul II to do?  He is precisely aware what the
future holds with its chastisements, disasters, earthquakes, tidal
waves, the betrayal of his churchment, and the geopolitics of the
world and its sensitive implications.  While recuperating from his
wounds inflicted by Mehmet Ali Agea, his attempted assassin, he
came to realize the only hope for the world was the collegial
consecration of Russia as requested at Fatima.  Hoping for a
mitigation of the coming tribulations -- but only a mitigation --
he attempted to consecrate the world to Mary, "with a special
mention of Russia."  John Paul's immediate step was to write all of
his bishops, telling them he would do just that on 5/13/82, in
Fatima, and inviting them to join him -- either by a physical
presence or by parallel actions in their home dioceses.  The
apostasy of the last 50 years produced an anemic response.  Many of
the bishops were no longer in union with Rome.

    Has the Blessed Mother revealed the 3rd secret of Fatima in
other messages?  Many people who have studied these messages
clearly believe that the Blessed Mother revealed it on 10/13/73 to
Sr Agnes Sasagawa at Akita, Japan.  The apparitions at Akita have
been approved by the local bishop.  The message was as follows:

    "As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves,
    the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all of
    humanity.  It will be a punishment greater than the Deluge,
    such as one will never have seen before.  Fire will fall
    from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity,
    the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor
    faithful.  The survivors will find themselves so desolate
    that they will envy the dead.  The only weapons which will
    remain for you will be the rosary and the Sign left by my
    Son.  Each day recite the prayers of the rosary.  With the
    Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops, and the priests.

    "The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church
    in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing
    cardinals, bishops against other bishops.  The priests who
    venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres
    ... churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of
    those who accept compromises and the demon will press many
    priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the
    Lord.

    The demon will be especially implacable against souls
    consecrated to God.  The thought of the loss of so many
    souls is the cause of my sadness.  If sins increase in
    number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for
    them.

    Pray very much the prayers of the rosary.  I alone am able
    still to save you from calamities which approach.  Those
    who place their confidence in me will be saved."

Others point our that Our Lady seems to have revealed again the
3rd secret in a locution to the Marian Movement of Priests on
9/15/87 at Akita, Japan, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows:

    "A chastisement worse than the flood is about to come upon
    this poor and perverted humanity.  Fire will descend from
    Heaven and this will be the sign that the justice of God
    has as of now fixed the hour of His great manifestation.  I
    am weeping because the Church is continuing along the road
    of division, of loss of the true faith, of apostasy and of
    errors which are being spread more and more without anyone
    offering opposition to them.  Even now, that which I
    predicted at Fatima and that which I have revealed here in
    the third message confided to a little daughter of mine is
    in the process of being accomplished.  And so, even for the
    Church the moment of its great trial has some, because the
    man of iniquity will establish himself within it and the
    abomination of desolation will enter into the holy temple
    of God."

Fr Gobbi, in a locution on 2/11/79, received this message (similar
to the warnings of LaSalette):

    "This interior division sometimes even leads priests to set
    themselves against priests, bishops against bishops, and
    cardinals against cardinals, for never before as in these
    times has Satan so succeeded in finding his way into their
    midst, rending asunder the precious bond of their mutual
    love."

On 6/13/89, Fr Gobbi received the following:

    "Thus errors are spread in every part of the Catholic
    Church itself.  Because of the spread of these errors, many
    are moving away from the true faith, bringing to
    fulfillment the prophecy which was given to you by me at
    Fatima: The times will come when many will lose the true
    faith.  The loss of the faith is apostasy."

    Cardinal Ratzinger has written in the Ratzinger Report that
the 3rd secret of Fatima has to do with what he called "de
nivissimis".  The Cardinal had good reason to know, having
previously read the still unrevealed secret.  The Latin expression
"de novissimis" means "dealing with the end times", pertaining to
the latter days, or about the final events.  These "end times" to
which Ratzinger and the 3rd secret refer, and about which Pope Paul
VI and his predecessors spoke, are well known to Biblical scholars.


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Subject: * Fatima and environs
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 17:12:44 CST

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 I do not claim it's validity, and I leave it to the reader
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Note: The following file was originally picked up from the Catholic
      Information Network (CIN #1) in San Francisco (415-387-3251) PCP

      Although I've had this file for sometime,  I  have just
      recently  deemed  it  appropriate to upload this to ParaNet in
      light  of  a  number of references to Fatima and the "3rd"
      Secret"  in certain  UFO  related  material.  In particular,
      I've seen  this  subject  referenced  in  the  "Krill"  files
      and in msg  threads  both  on  ParaNet and in the Compuserve
      Paranormal Issues Forum.  Some feel  that it is related,  at
      least in part, to some element of the UFO  phenomenon.
      Personally,  I  feel it relates to some "end  time"  event which
      could lie over the not so distant horizon.   Although  much  of
      the  speculation surrounding the 3rd Secret  of  Fatima  seems
      to indicate some kind of earthly catastrophe,  its my  own
      feeling  that it also has an explicit political dimension to
      it,  most probably in relation to the Soviet Union.

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From *The Ratzinger Report*
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger with Vittorio Messori (Ignatius Press 1985)

Fatima and environs

One  of  the four sections of the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the  Faith  (the so-called disciplinary section)  is entrusted with
the task  of judging Marian apparitions.

I ask:  "Cardinal Ratzinger,  have you read the so-called 'third
secret  of Fatima', which Sister Lucia, the only survivor of the group
of those  who beheld the apparition,  forwarded to Pope John XXIII,
and which the  Pope, after he had examined it, passed on to your
predecessor, Cardinal  Ottaviani,   ordering  him to deposit it in the
archives  of  the  Holy  Office?"

The reply is immediate and dry: "Yes, I have read it."

Undenied  versions are circulating in the world,  I   continue,
which  describe the contents of that "secret"  as disquieting,
apocalyptic, as  warning of terrible sufferings.  John Paul II
himself,  in his personal  visit   to   Germany,    seemed  to
confirm   (albeit   with   prudent  circumlocutions,   privately,   to
 a  select  group)   the  undeniably  disconcerting contents of that
text.  Before him,  Paul VI,  during his  pilgrimage  to Fatima,  also
seems to have alluded to the "apocalyptic"  themes of the "secret".
Why was it never decided to make it public,  if  only to counter rash
speculations?

"If  this  decision  has not yet been made",  he answers,  "it  is
not  because the Popes want to hide something terrible."

Then  there is "something terrible"  in Sister Lucia's  manuscript,
I  insist?

"If that were so",  he replies, avoiding going further, "that after
all  would  only confirm the part of the message of Fatima already
known.  A  stern  warning  has  been launched from that  place  that
is  directed  against the prevailing frivolity, a summons to the
seriousness of life,  of  history,  to the perils that threaten
humanity.  It is  that  which  Jesus himself recalls very frequently:
'... Unless you repent you will  all perish...'  (Lk 13:3).
Conversion--and Fatima fully recalls it  to  mind--is  a constant
demand of Christian life.  We should already  know  that from the
whole of sacred Scripture."

So there will be no publication, at least for now?

"The  Holy Father deems that it would add nothing to what  a
Christian  must know from Revelation and also from the Marian
apparitions approved  by  the  Church  in their known contents,  which
only  reconfirmed  the  urgency of penance,  conversion, forgiveness,
fasting.  To publish the  'third  secret'   would  mean  exposing the
Church  to  the  danger  of  sensationalism, exploitation of the
content."

Perhaps  also political implications,  I  venture,  since it seems
that  here, also, as in the two other "secrets", Russia is mentioned?

At  this  point,  however,  the Cardinal declares that he is not  in
a  position  to go further into the matter and firmly refuses  to
discuss  other particulars. On the other hand, at the time of our
interview, the  Pope proceeded to reconsecrate the world (with a
particular mention  of  Eastern  Europe)   to  the  Immaculate Heart
of  Mary,   precisely  in  accordance with the exhortation of the
Virgin of Fatima,  and the  same  John Paul II, wounded by his
would-be assassin, on May 13-- anniversary  of  the first apparition
in the Portuguese locality--went to Fatima  in  order to thank Mary,
"whose hand (he said)  had miraculously guided the  bullet",   and
seemed  to  refer to the  forewarnings  that  had  been  transmitted
through a group of children to humanity and that seemed  to  refer
also to the person of the Pontiff.

On the same theme,  it is well known that for years, now, a  village
in  Yugoslavia,  Medjugorje, is at the center of world attention
because of  reported  "apparitions"  which--whether true or not--have
already drawn  millions of pilgrims.  But they have also provoked
deplorable conflicts  between  the  Franciscans who govern the parish
and the bishop  of  the  local  diocese.  Is a clarifying statement of
the Congregation for  the  Doctrine  of  the  Faith,  the highest
court in  this  matter,   to  be  expected,   with,   of  course,  the
approval of the  Pope,   which  is  indispensable for each one of its
documents?

He replies:  "In this area, more than ever, patience is the
fundamental  principle  of  the  policy  of  our  Congregation.   No
apparition  is  indispensable to the faith; Revelation terminated with
Jesus Christ. He  himself  is the Revelation.  But we certainly cannot
prevent  God  from  speaking   to  our  time  through  simple  persons
 and  also   through  extraordinary  signs  that point to the
insufficiency of  the  cultures  stamped by rationalism and positivism
that dominate us. The apparitions  that the Church has officially
approved--especially Lourdes and Fatima- -have their precise place in
the development of the life of the  Church  in the last century.  They
show, among other things,  that Revelation-- still unique,  concluded
and therefore unsurpassable--is not yet a dead  thing but something
alive and vital.  Moreover--prescinding Medjugorje,  on  which  I
cannot express a judgment since the case is  still  being  examined by
the Congregation--one of the signs of our times is that the
announcements  of  'Marian apparitions'  are multiplying all  over
the  world.   For example,  reports are arriving from Africa and from
other  continents at the section of the Congregation that is competent
to deal  with such reports."

But,  I ask,  besides the traditional element of patience and
prudence,  on what criteria does the Congregation base itself for a
judgment,   in  the face of the multiplication of these facts?

"One of our criteria",  he says, "is to separate the aspect of the
true  or  presumed  'supernaturality'   of the apparition from  that
of  its  spiritual  fruits.  The pilgrimages of ancient Christianity
were  often  concentrated on places with respect to which our modern
critical spirit  would be horrified as to the 'scientific truth'  of
the tradition bound  up  with  them.   This  does  not detract  from
the  fact  that  those  pilgrimages were fruitful,  beneficial, rich
in blessings and important  for  the life of the Christian people.
The problem is not so much that  of modern hypercriticism (which ends
up later,  moreover,  in a form of  new credulity), but it is that of
the evaluation of the vitality and of  the  orthodoxy  of the
religious life that is developing  around  these  places."

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