Marian devotion
Criterion
No interwoven citation of this module comes from memory or devotional repertoire. Each one comes out of a downloaded and read file: the official PDF of the Fatima Sanctuary, the flat text of vatican.va, the OCR of archive.org or the facsimile of a library. When the reading has not been clean - damaged OCR - it is expressly said on the corresponding page.
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1. PRIMARY SOURCES - the texts of Sr Lucia
| Sigla | Work | URL | HTTP |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEM | Memories of Sister Lucia I, 13th ed., Secretariat of the Little Shepherds, Fatima, October 2007, 240 pp. — Official PDF hosted by the Santuário de Fátima, sheet F002 of the collection Fonts. ISBN 978-972-8524-18-0, printed de Leiria | https://www.fatima.pt/files/upload/fontes/F002_Memorias1.pdf | 200 |
| — | Description of the collection | https://www.fatima.pt/pt/documentacao/f002-memorias-da-irma-lucia-1 | 200 |
| — | The same book, PDF of the Secretariat dos Pastorinhos (243 pp.) | https://pastorinhos.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/memorias-1.pdf | 200 |
| MEM-ES | Memories of Sister Lucia, vol. I, 10th edition Spanish, September 2008 - compilation of Fr. Luís Kondor SVD, introduction and notes by Fr. Dr. Joaquín M. Alonso CMF (2010), printed of Leiria of 13-9-2006 | https://archive.org/details/MemoriasdeLuciadeFatima | 200 |
| — | Memories and Letters from Sister Lucia (1973), ed. facsímil del P. António Maria Martins - different historical edition, memories and letters in facsimile | https://archive.org/details/memorias-e-cartas-irma-lucia-fac-simile | 200 |
Contenido de MEM: I-IV memoirs, more Apéndice I (Pontevedra, 1925-1926), Apéndice II (though, 1929) y Apéndice III (the document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of 2000).
⚠️ Memories V and VI (Memories of Sister Lucia II) They're not open.. Se probó
pastorinhos.com/…/memorias-2.pdf: HTTP 404. Sólo existen en venta: https://store.fatima.pt/pt/produto/memorias-da-irma-lucia-ii/1010212660025 (HTTP 200). This module has not read them. and it only says of them what is recorded in the editorial document and in the official chronology.2. PRIMARY SOURCES - the critical documentation of 1917-1930
| Sigla | Work | URL | HTTP |
|---|---|---|---|
| DCF | Critical Documentation of Fatima: Selection of documents (1917-1930), Shrine of Fatima, 2013, 651 pp., ISBN 978-972-8213-91-6 — PDF oficial, sheet F001 | https://www.fatima.pt/files/upload/fontes/F001_DCF_selecao.pdf | 200 |
| — | Description of the collection | https://www.fatima.pt/pt/documentacao/f001-documentacao-critica-de-fatima-selecao-de-documentos-1917-1930 | 200 |
What it contains: 138 primary documents and an annex - the interrogations of the parish priest of Fatima in 1917, those of Dr. Formigão, the press of the time (including The Century), the documents of the canon process, the letters of Sr. Lucia, the offices of the Ourém administrator and the civil governors, Report (76 pp.) and the pastoral letter of October 13, 1930.
⚠️ **La Critical Documentation of Fatima complete - 15 volumes, 8,217 pages, 3,811 documents, published between 1992 and 2013 - is not open. * * When a document is quoted in this module by its number in the DCF ("DCF, vol. I, p. 13), * * the reference to the Selection, no el volumen original.
Other used Sanctuary documents
| Document | URL | HTTP |
|---|---|---|
| ‘Narrative of appearances’ - Portuguese texts of all the apparitions, with their editorial references | https://www.fatima.pt/pt/pages/narrativa-das-aparicoes | 200 |
| Annotated chronology of the three seers - quotes baptism and death seats | https://www.fatima.pt/pt/pages/cronologia-dos-videntes | 200 |
| CHRISTINE, Luciano**, Fourth apparition of Our Lady in the Valinhos on August 19, 1917, Fatima, Shrine of Fatima, 2014, pp. 49-60 | https://www.fatima.pt/files/upload/estudos/E003_Quarta%20aparicao%20de%20Nossa%20Senhora.pdf | 200 |
| Voice da Fatima, year VIII, No. 97, Leiria, 13 October 1930 - facsimile with the pastoral letter of approval | https://www.fatima.pt/files/upload/voz_da_fatima/VF0097_1930-10-13.pdf | 200 |
| Places of the Sanctuary: "Places of apparitions," "of veneration and prayer," "of memory and culture" | https://www.fatima.pt/es/pages/lugares-de-las-apariciones y afines | 200 |
| Route of Peregrino 2020-2023 (Spanish) | https://www.fatima.pt/files/upload/subsidios_para_a_peregrinacao/IP%202020-2023%20WEB%20AV%20ES.pdf | 200 |
DOCUMENTOS DE LA SANTA SEDE
The central document
| Document | URL | HTTP |
|---|---|---|
| Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, The message of Fatima, 26 June 2000 - presentation of the card. Tarcisio Bertone, full text of the three parts of the secret, communiqué of the card. Angelo Sodano of the 13-V-2000, colloquium with Sr Lucia of the 27-IV-2000 and Theological comment of the card. Joseph Ratzinger (Spanish) | https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_sp.html | 200 |
| Idem, Portuguese text (contains the original Portuguese of Sr Lucia) | …/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_po.html | 200 |
Magisterio pontificio (prefijo https://www.vatican.va)
| Pope | Document | Date | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pius XII | Radio for the XXV of his episcopal consecration | 13-V-1942 | /content/pius-xii/it/speeches/1942/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19420513_consacrazione-episcopale.html |
| Pius XII | Radiomensage to Portugal - consecration to the Immaculate Heart | 31-X-1942 | /content/pius-xii/pt/speeches/1942/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19421031_immaculata.html |
| Pius XII | Prayer of consecration | 8-XII-1942 | /content/pius-xii/it/prayers/documents/hf_p-xii_19421208_prayer-cuore-maria.html |
| Pius XII | Radiomensaje Blessed Seja - coronation of the image | 13-V-1946 | /content/pius-xii/pt/speeches/1946/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19460513_fatima.html |
| Pius XII | Letter Celeberrima sollemnia to Card. Legado Aloisi Masella | 28-IV-1946 | /archive/aas/documents/AAS-38-1946-ocr.pdf — AAS 38, p. 376 |
| Pius XII | Apostolic Letter Holy versus year - consecration of the peoples of Russia | 7-VII-1952 | /content/pius-xii/la/apost_letters/documents/hf_p-xii_apl_19520707_sacro-vergente-anno.html |
| Juan XXIII | Carta al cardenal patriarca de Lisboa | 8-X-1961 | /content/john-xxiii/es/letters/1961/documents/hf_j-xxiii_let_19611008_fatima.html |
| Pablo VI | Closure of the third session of the Council | 21-XI-1964 | /content/paul-vi/es/speeches/1964/documents/hf_p-vi_spe_19641121_conclusions-iii-sessions.html |
| Pablo VI | Homily in Fatima (fiftieth anniversary) | 13-V-1967 | /content/paul-vi/pt/homilies/1967/documents/hf_p-vi_hom_19670513.html |
| Pablo VI | Announcement Signum Magnum | 13-V-1967 | /content/paul-vi/it/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19670513_signum-magnum.html |
| Juan Pablo II | Prayer in Fatima | 13-V-1982 | /content/john-paul-ii/it/prayers/documents/hf_jp-ii_19820513_fatima.html |
| Juan Pablo II | Homilía en Fátima | 13-V-1982 | /content/john-paul-ii/pt/homilies/1982/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19820513_fatima.html |
| Juan Pablo II | Letter to the Bishops + Delivery Act | 8-XII-1983 | /content/john-paul-ii/pt/letters/1983/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_19831208_vescovi-immacolata-concezione.html |
| Juan Pablo II | Homily and act of consecration | 25-III-1984 | /content/john-paul-ii/it/homilies/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19840325_giubileo-famiglie.html |
| Juan Pablo II | Homilía en Fátima | 13-V-1991 | /content/john-paul-ii/pt/homilies/1991/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19910513_fatima.html |
| Juan Pablo II | Homilía de la beatification of Francisco and Jacinta | 13-V-2000 | /content/john-paul-ii/es/homilies/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20000513_beatification-fatima.html |
| Benedict XVI | Words to journalists on the flight to Portugal | 11-V-2010 | /content/benedict-xvi/es/speeches/2010/may/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20100511_portogallo-interview.html |
| Benedict XVI | The act of consecration of priests | 12-V-2010 | /content/benedict-xvi/es/prayers/documents/hf_ben-xvi_20100512_affidamento-fatima.html |
| Benedict XVI | Homily at the Shrine's Esplanade | 13-V-2010 | /content/benedict-xvi/es/homilies/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20100513_fatima.html |
| Francisco | Mariana Day and Consecration Act | 13-X-2013 | /content/francesco/es/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20131013_omelia-giornata-mariana.html |
| Francisco | Homilía de la canonization en Fátima | 13-V-2017 | /content/francesco/es/homilies/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20170513_omelia-pellegrinaggio-fatima.html |
| Francisco | Consecration to the Immaculate Heart (Russia and Ukraine) | _ | /content/francesco/es/prayers/documents/20220325-atto-consacrazione-cuoredimaria.html |
| Lion XIV | General Audience with Greetings about Fatima | 13-V-2026 | /content/leo-xiv/it/audiences/2026/documents/20260513-udienza-generale.html |
Decretos y actas:
- Congregación para las Causas de los Santos, decreto sobre sor Lucía, 13-II-2008:
/roman_curia/congregations/csaints/documents/rc_con_csaints_doc_20080213_luciae_fr.html(HTTP 200). - Press room, boletín del 22-VI-2023 — decreto de virtudes heroicas de sor Lucía:
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2023/06/22/230622e.pdf(HTTP 200). - Stampa Room, newsletter of 23- lll- 2017 — decreto sobre el milagro para la canonización:
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2017/03/23/170323d.html(HTTP 200). - Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol. CIX (2017), n.º 9, pp. 896-898 — Litterae Decretales de la canonización:
https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/2017/acta-settembre2017.pdf(HTTP 200). - Catechism of the Catholic Church, nn. 1023-1037 (cielo, purgatorio, infierno):
https://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism_sp/p123a12_sp.html(HTTP 200).
⚠️ TRAMPA TÉCNICA IMPORTANTE. En vatican.va, varias rutas
/es/ devuelven HTTP 200 with empty text page. Verificado en Signum Magnum (200, but 670 characters), and in the encyclics Daiparae Virus Mariae y Fulgens crown. Code 200 is not enough: you have to count the characters after cleaning the HTML. In such cases, the Italian, Portuguese or Latin version must be linked.4. PRENSA Y TESTIMONIOS DE 1917
- Avelino de Almeidae"Terrific things! How the sun danced at noon in Fatima," The Century, Lisboa, 15 October 1917 — en DCF. Selection, doc. 13, pp. 72-78.
- Avelino de Almeidae, en Portuguese Illustration, II series, n.º 610, Lisboa, 29 October 1917 — en DCF. Selection, doc. 21, pp. 113-116. Verified facsimile en la Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa:
https://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/IlustracaoPort/1917/N610/N610_master/N610.pdf(HTTP 200, 5,5 MB). (Las páginas HTML de esa hemeroteca devuelven 403 acurl; el PDF sí se sirve.) - José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett, testimony of the 18 December 1917 — DCF. Selection, doc. 29, pp. 149-152.
- Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett (the father, professor), letters to Dr. Formigão with a weather explanation - docs. 28 and 37.
- Leonor de Avelar e Silva Constantio17, pp. 89-99. P. Manuel Pereira da Silva, doc. 12. Luís A. V. M. de Vasconcelos, doc. 32. O World / Free Federation Thought, doc. 20.
5. SCIENCE: the aurora of January 1938
Main reference:
HAYAKAWA, H.; HATTORI, K.; PEVTSOV, A. A.; EBIHARA, Y.; SHEA, M. A.; McCRACKEN, K. G.; DAGLIS, I. A.; BHASKAR, A. T.; RIBEIRO, P.; KNIPP, D. J., «The Intensity and Evolution of the Extreme Solar and Geomagnetic Storms in 1938 January», The Astrophysical Journal 909, n.º 2, art. 197 (1 March 2021). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc427
– Editor:
– Preprint íntegro:
– Editor:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc427 (HTTP 200)– Preprint íntegro:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15762 (HTTP 200)⚠️ The wrong reference "ApJ 909, 127" is well cited. The correct article number is 197, verified in IOP and Crossref.
Contemporary literature (1938), with DOI verified:
| Authors | Title | Reference | TWO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anon. | The Aurora of January 25-26 | Nature 141 (3562), 232-235, 5l- 1938 | 10.1038 / 141232a0 |
| C. Størmer | Photographic Measurements of the Great Aurora of January 25-26, 1938 | Nature 141 (3578), 955-957, 28-V-1938 | 10.1038 / 14195a0 |
| V. F. Hess (Nobel de Física 1936), R. Steinmaurer, A. Demmelmair | Cosmic Rays and the Aurora of January 25-26 | Nature 141 (3572), 686-687, IV-1938 | 10.1038 / 141686a0 |
| A. J. Higgs, R. G. | Recent Solar Eruptions, Auroras, and Magnetic Storms | Nature 141 (3573), 746, 1 -IV-1938 | 10.1038 / 141746a0 |
6. EXPLICACIONS ALTERNATIVAS DEL FENÓMENO SOLAR
They're quoted because they exist. No se valoran.
- NICKELL, Joe, Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures, Buffalo (NY), Prometheus Books, 1993, «»Miracles» at Fatima», pp. 176-181.
- RADFORD, Benjamin"Fatima Miracle Claims All Wet", Skeptical Inquiry, vol. 43, n.º 3, mayo/junio 2019 —
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2019/05/fatima-miracle-claims-all-wet/(HTTP 200). - MEESSEN, Auguste, «Apparitions and Miracles of the Sun», Cons-Sciences 2 (2005), pp. 199-222 —
https://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Apparitions_and_Miracles_of_the_Sun.pdf(HTTP 200). - ARIAS, Josep Emili, "Aurora Boreal 1938, an appropriation interested in the Secret of Fatima," Huygens n.º 109, julio-agosto de 2014, pp. 8-21, Agrupación Astronómica de la Safor —
http://www.astrosafor.net/Huygens/2014/109/huygens-109-fatima.pdf(HTTP 200). - ⚠️ CAMPBELL, Steuart, «The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima», Journal of Meteorology (UK), vol. 14, n.º 142, pp. 333-338 — NO VERIFICADO: year discrepancy (1988 according to Meessen; October 1989 according to other sources).
7. LITERATURA FATIMITA Y POLÉMICA SOBRE LA CONSAGRACIÓN
Warning: the works of this section are interested party in one sense or another. They've been used here. to document what each part holdsNever as referees.
The position that the consecration was not done as requested:
- FRÈRE MICHEL DE LA SAINTE TRINITÉ, The whole truth about Fatima, t. II, Le Secret et l’Église (ed. French 1984-85) / The Whole Truth About Fatima, vol. II, Immaculate Heart Publications, Buffalo (NY), 1989. The page 544, which circulates as a reference to Rianjo's letter, has not been confirmed: the PDF does not keep the printed page.)
- SOCCI, Antonio, Fàtima's fourth secret, Milán, Rizzoli, 2006, 251 pp., ISBN 9788817009935 (English: The Fourth Secret of Fatima, Loreto, 2009). Not read.
- FERRARA, Christopher A., The Secret Still Hidden, Good Counsel Publications, 2008 —
https://fatima.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Secret-Still-Hidden.pdf(HTTP 200). Verified PDF, libre in the injured. - The Fatima Center (fundado por el P. Nicholas Gruner):
https://fatima.org/the-conditions-of-the-consecration-of-russia/(HTTP 200). - Treasures of the Faith, No. 245 (May 2022) - critical position in Spanish.
Posture of which it is hecha:
- The document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 2000 (above).
- BERTONE, Tarcisio, L’ultima veggente di Fatima, 2007, with a letter of presentation from Benedict XVI of 22-II-2007.
- KENGOR, Paul, National Catholic RegisterMarch 23, 2022.
Against the thesis of a hidden text:
- SYMONDS, Kevin J., On the Third Part of the Secret of Fátima, 2.ª ed., St. Louis (Missouri), En Route Books and Media, 2024. Apéndices en PDF:
https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Secret-of-Fatima-Book_Appendices-ALL.pdf(HTTP 200).
Documentary editions cited by the above:
- MARTINS, António Maria, S. J., Documents of Fatima, Port. Pages vary according to edition (1973 and 1976): before quoting, the year must be fixed.
- MARTINS, A. M., Letters from Sister Lucia, 2nd ed., Porto, Press Bookshop, 1979.
- ALONSO, Joaquín María, C.M.F., Fatima to the Sphinx, Madrid, Sol de Fatima, 1979.
8. HISTOROGRAPHY OF THE KINGDOM (for the parallel with the kings of France)
- HAMON, Auguste, S.J., History of devotion to the Sacred Heart, t. III; and the specific monograph The Message of the Sacred Heart to Louis XIV, FranceBeauchesne, 1918.
- ALET, Victor, S. J., France and the Sacred Heart1892, pp. 256-260 (full text of the vote attributed to Louis XVI and reservations of the author himself).
- JONAS, Raymond, France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart, described by J. Marx, Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire81 (2003) pp. 1277-1291.
- Life and works of Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, ed. Gauthey, t. II (cartas 100 y 107).
9. THE LIGHT
- Shrine of Fatima:
https://www.fatima.pt/— páginas «Lugares de las apariciones», «Lugares de culto y oración», «Lugares de memoria y cultura» (HTTP 200). - Carmelo de Santa Teresa de Coimbra:
https://coimbra.carmelitas.pt/y…/memorial-da-irma-lucia-museu/(HTTP 200). - House of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pontevedra (Arzobispado de Santiago de Compostela):
https://www.casadelinmaculadocorazon.es/(HTTP 200). - ⚠️ Diocese of Tu-Vigo:
https://www.diocesetuivigo.org/— HTTP 301 en bucle, inaccessible. That's why Tui's data is not verified in this module.
10. Internal working documents supporting this module
(They are not for publication; they are cited for traceability.)
/root/operaciones/_investigacion/FATIMA-MEMORIAS-Y-SECRETOS.md— las seis Memorias ficha por ficha, los tres secretos en portugués y español, la señal y la ciencia de la aurora, el milagro del sol con la prensa laica, el proceso canónico, los videntes, «lo olvidado», dudas y riesgos, y cronología documentada./root/operaciones/_investigacion/FATIMA-CONSAGRACION-RUSIA.md— el texto de Rianjo, las cuatro piezas textuales, la tabla de las siete consagraciones pontificias cotejadas sobre texto plano, y el paralelo con los reyes de Francia./root/reza-oraciones/modulo-fatima/_fuentes/NOTAS-PAPAS.md— verificación papa por papa sobre vatican.va./root/reza-oraciones/modulo-fatima/_fuentes/NOTAS-LUGARES.md— verificación de los lugares sobre fuentes oficiales.
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