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Why this page exists
Because in this project is forbidden to invent, and because the current account of Fatima - that of the brochures, the videos and much of the books - contains errors that have been repeated for decades without anyone going to check them at the source.
We've gone. And what follows is the result: six verified corrections, a textual criticism correction, and a list of all the aquello that we don't say because in the hemoems we could compar.
None of this weakens Fatima. On the contrary: what is held over documents is held; what is held over repetition, no.
LAS SEIS CORRECCIONS
1. The witness Almeida Garrett of October 13 is the child, no el catedrático
The most cited technical testimony about the sun miracle is always attributed to the "Professor of Coimbra Almeida Garrett." The critical edition of the Sanctuary says something else.
- El Professor es el Father: Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett, "bachiller in philosophy and doctor in mathematics, substitute professor in Coimbra" (DCF. Selection, Introduction, p. 14).
- El witness of 13 October is the child, José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett, identified in note 1 of the document only as "son of Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett and Maria Joaquina Proença Almeida Garrett" (doc. 29, p. 149).
Safe formula: "eyewitness, son of Professor Gonçalo Xavier of Almeida Garrett." No "Professor of Coimbra."
(And there is an ironic detail: the father, the real professor, wrote by proposing a meteorological explanation of the phenomenon.)
2. The Pastoral of 1930 in the title “Divine Providence”
This is how it is continually quoted. In the critical edition of the Sanctuary the document is entitled "Pastoral Letter on the veneration of Our Lady of Fatima», y «Divine Providence..."are their first words, and in inverted order as to what is often cited. It's a incipit, not a title.
3. The signal identified with the 1938 aurora: del editor, no de sor Lucía
The secret announces "a night illuminated by an unknown light." Everyone identifies him with the of 25-26 January 1938.
What Sr Lucia really writes (III Memory, p. 127):
No date. And you doubt it was an aurora. The identification with 25-26 January 1938 is in the notes 9 and 15 of the official edition, signed by P. Joaquín M. Alonso:
Honorary formulation: "Sister Lucia claims that there was a sign, that astronomers called it aurora boreal and that she does not believe it was; the identification with the aurora of 25-26 January 1938 comes from the notes of the official edition."
(The aurora existed and was exceptional: this is established in peer-reviewed scientific literature - Hayakawa et al., ApJ 909 (2), art. 197, 2021 -. What is not in the seer's text is identification.)
4. The "boiling oil" is in the 1924 declaration, not in the Memories.
In the Memories what appears is the threat of freír, not to mention oil: "saying that soon they would come and find us to fry» (The Memory, p. 51).
The mention of oil is in the to the diocesan Canon Commission of 8 July 1924: «They promised to fry us with oil.» (DCF 2, doc. 8, pp. 142-143, cited by the official study of the Sanctuary E003).
The data is good and the source is canonical. The wrong thing is to attribute it to the Memories.
5. The apparition of Valinhos was the 19 August, not 15
Sister Lucia wrote August 15 in his Second Report. Note 21 of the official edition is corrected:
The correction is based on the of the parish priest of 21 August 1917 ("Lucia said that she saw Our Lady on the Sunday following the 13th") and in the statements of four witnesses to the Canon Commission on 28 September 1923.
6. Sor Lucía es VENERABLE, no beata
Francisco and Jacinta are canonised (13 May 2017). Sister Lucia has the decree of heroic virtues of June 22, 2023that makes it Venerable. Beatification requires the recognition of a miracle, which to this day does not.
The Sanctuary itself maintains published a "Prayer for the beatification of the Venerable Sister Lucia. "
To call her "beata" or "santa" is a mistake in fact.
THE CORRECTION OF TEXTUAL CRITICS: "Like the King of France"
This deserves its own apart because it is the most widespread source error of all fatimite literature.
The famous phrase - "As the king of France, they will repent and do it, but it will be late."- published everywhere as if it were Rianjo's letter of 1931. No lo es.
There are four different piecesof four different dates, with different reactions:
| # | Date | What is it? | Who is this? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 August 1931 | Letter from Rianjo to the Bishop of Leiria | «His Divine Majesty"(Our Lord) |
| 2 | 21 January 1935 | Carta al P. Gonçalves, que Remember la de Rianjo | — |
| 3 | 1936 | Relation of the vision of Abs al P. Gonçalves — Here's the famous phrase | Our Lady according to the Shrine of Fatima; Our Lord according to Frère Michel |
| 4 | 1946 | Declaration P. Boy, with distinct text: 'Like the King of France, they do not listen to my requests; the Holy Father will consecrate Russia, but it will be late.» | — |
Consequences, such as:
1. Whoever bases the letter of Rianjo and the phrase of the king of France on a single quote is making a source error.
2. Even the announcer changes according to the edition. The Fatimite sources themselves disagree with each other about whether Our Lord or Our Lady speaks. This module does not decide on its own.
3. The text only says "the king of France": no name, no date, no description of the fact. The identification with Luis XIV It's from the fatimite tradition.
And the decisive pointthat the defender of the fatimite version himself gives. In note 710 to volume II, Brother Michel of the Holy Trinity writes:
That is: accepts that there is no document, and solves the vacuum with a private revelation. That's a theological, not historical argument - and he says so.
How this is published without lying: in two rotary blocks. What Fatima's message says, on the one hand; what the files say, on the other. Both are true in your own order. What would be false is to present the first as if it were the second. Full development on the page "Russia and consecration".
SO THAT THIS MODULE IN THE AFIRM
List of very repeated data no publicamosbecause we have not been able to verify them on the source. If one day they are verified, they are added with your reference.
The events of 1917
1. That Arthur de Oliveira Santos fuese masón And they called it the Herrero. Your Republican anti-lericalism Yes. is documented, by his office of 1920. The masonry and the nickname, no.
2. * * The previous ironic chronicle of Avelino de Almeida in The Century October 13, 1917. He's dating everywhere. It is not in the critical selection of the Sanctuary and we haven't located the original accessible. We do not quote it with literal text.
3. The exact holder of The Century October 15, 1917. * * The OCR of the official facsimile returns the first word damaged. "Amazing things!"is the current and coherent reading, But we haven't read it clean..
4. The numbers of 70,000 attendees 13 October as the data of the witnesses: those who left the figure written in 1917 say 30.000-50.000.
5. The issue number and the page by columns from the article of 15 October: they come from secondary transcripts.
6. La referencia de Steuart Campbell («The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima», Journal of Meteorology): year discrepancy between 1988 and 1989, outstanding.
7. * * The newspaper O Dia de Lisboa as a source on the miracle: does not appear in the index or critical selection documents.
About the seers and their causes
8. The full name of the Brazilian child * * of the miracle of the 2017 canonization. The Acta Apostolicae Sedis He does not name him; the Sanctuary says only "Luke."
9. Who asked for the Sixth Report. Official chronology appoints Luciano Guerra for the Fifth, but does not repeat the name for the Sixth.
10. Memories V and VI: in haemos leido su texto (no free edition). Everything we say about them comes from the editorial document and the official chronology, and so it is declared.
11. No developments in the cause of Sister Lucia since 2023: is a negative statement, supported by the fact that the official page continues to call it "Venerável." No haemos revisado wasetin and bopoetin the Stampa Room of 2024-2026.
About the potatoes
12. "One hand shot and another led the bullet": that sentence no in the read Vatican sources. The check is "a mother's hand led the path of the bullet, and the dying Pope stopped at the threshold of death» (Meditation with Italian Bishops from the Gemelli Police13 May 1994).
13. * * The attribution of that sentence to Don and mystery.
14. The time of the attack of 13 May 1981 («17:19»).
15. The official dates of the delivery and the setting of the bullet, y the name of the bishop * * of Leiria-Fatima: the Holy See does not give them. (The Sanctuary does give 26- III- 1984 and 1989; they are quoted as their own.)
16. Who put the bullet in material form in the crown.
17. Albino Luciani's visit to Fatima in 1977: is not in vatican.va and there is discrepancy of dates between pages of the Sanctuary.
18. That Lion XIV never spoke of Fatima again: the sweep was made by index titles, not document by document.
On the consecration of Russia
19. The Portuguese autograph of the letter of Rianjo (29-VIII-1931)We have not made it, neither in original nor in facsimile. The Portuguese variants that circulate are not resolved. If you quote, you have to quote the edition, not as a diplomatic transcript.
20. * * The pagination of Martins, Documents of Fatima: editions of 1973 and 1976 circulate with different pages.
21. The letter from Sister Lucia of 8 November 1989: the Holy See quotes, but the original has not been published with facsimile and archiving apparatus. We say that it is apocryphal and that we present it as a fully authenticated autograph.
22. The interview of Sol de Fátima de 1985 and that of Carlos Evaristo of 1992: a broadcast discussed, without exhibition of originals. They are not cited as facts.
23. The books of Socci and Ferrara: we have verified that they exist and where they formulate their thesis. We haven't read them. We document that the position exists, we do not value it.
About the places
24. "Sancta Mad" as the official name of the Sanctuary: zero coincidences in the complete sitemap (2,742 URLs) and all official material downloaded. We didn't attribute it to the Sanctuary.
25. The perpetrator of the explosive attack against the Capelinha on March 6, 1922.
26. The unique date of the transfer of the remains of San Francisco Marto: the Sanctuary itself contradicts (17-II-1952 in its chronology, 13-II-1952 in its site page).
27. The opening days of the House of Pontevedra: your official website contradicts itself.
28. Casi allo lo relative to Tui: the web of the diocese of Tui-Vigo returned HTTP 301 in loop and we could not read anything. Accurate address, telephone and possibility of visit: no verificados.
29. The distance from the parish church of Fatima to the Sanctuary, the hours of the houses of Aljustrel, the length of the road of the crucis and the price of the Memorial of Coimbra.
And the two captures that the official edition itself puts
This closes. It's written by P. Joaquín M. Alonso * *, author of the notes of the official edition of the Memories, with printed of the Bishop of Leiria:
Sources of this page
All corrections to this page are based on the documents cited on the relevant pages of the module, and in particular:
- Memories of Sister Lucia I - Official PDF of the Santuário, sheet F002 (HTTP 200): introduction pp. 11-13; I Memory p. 51; III Memory p. 127; note 21 to the II Memory; notes 9 and 15.
- Critical Documentation of Fatima. Selection of documents (1917-1930), 2013 - Official PDF, F001 tab (HTTP 200): Introduction p. 14; docs. 5, 13, 29, 56, 133.
- CHRISTINE, Luciano, Fourth apparition of Our Lady in the Valinhos on August 19, 1917, Shrine of Fatima, 2014 (official EDF, HTTP 200).
- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "The Message of Fatima," June 26, 2000 (HTTP 200).
- Holy See Stampa Room, June 22, 2023 (HTTP 200).
- HAYAKAWA, H., et al., The Astrophysical Journal 909(2), art. 197 (2021), DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/abc427.
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