I purchased a booklet on Fatima from Ebay that was written in 1947, only 30 years after Mary's apparition. It was written by Rev. Dooley, S.V.D. and has the Nihil Obstat of Rev. Murray and the Imrimatur of Rev. Cushing.
The booklet says that Mary wanted the Pope to consecrate the world to her Immaculate Heart (not Russia) and that Pope Pius XII fulfillled this.
This is what is written.
The third apparition may well go down in history as an epoch-making event. It was on July 13, 1917 that Our Lady told Lucy:
"Our Lord wishes that devotion to my Immaculate Heart be established in the world."
It was on this occassion that the children were given a vivid and terrifying vision of hell. then Our Lady continued:
"If what I tell you is done [this revelation has now been disclosed and it consisted mostly in the establishment of devotion to the Immaculate Heart] many souls will be saved and there will be peace; the war will end." If, however, her request are not carried out dire calamities will be visited upon mankind. "To prevent this [the series of calamities] I ask the consecration of the world to my Immaculate Heart, and Communion of reparation on the First Saturday of each month. If my requests are heard, Russia will be converted and there will be peace... In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph and an era of peace will be conceded to humanity."
Slowly but surely devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is taking root, not only among individuals but in the soil of the different nations of the globe.
On October 31, 1942, Pope Pius XII on the occasion of the solemn closing of the celebration in honor of the Appartions of Fatima, obeyed the message of Fatima and consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In subtle, but unmistakable language, His Holiness referred in the Consecration to Russia when he prayed, "Give peace to the peoples separated by error or discord, and especially to those who profess such singular devotion to thee [the Queen of Peace], and in whose homes an honored place was ever accorded thy venerated icon."
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