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| | Today, Fatima is one of the world's most visited Marian sites. The site of the apparitions of Our Lady in the Cova da Iria is now called the Capelinha. During the evenings, the [[Rosary]] is said by visiting pilgrims from all over the world and a candlelight procession in the esplanade follows. | | Today, Fatima is one of the world's most visited Marian sites. The site of the apparitions of Our Lady in the Cova da Iria is now called the Capelinha. During the evenings, the [[Rosary]] is said by visiting pilgrims from all over the world and a candlelight procession in the esplanade follows. |
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| | + | ==Fatima prophecy and Soviet Union dissolving== |
| | + | There is a documented history of a link to the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] and the Fatima prophecy. Read here [https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/answers/1984-consecration-documents-14284 Links to Consecration] <br> |
| | + | ‘’’Sister Lucia ( the same Lucia who was one of the three children) wrote several [[Pope]]s and asked each them to Consecrate the world).’’’ |
| | + | * Pope Pius XII did the Consecration in 1942 |
| | + | * Pope Paul VI did the Consecration in 1964 & 1967 |
| | + | * Pope John Paul II did the Consecration in 1982 |
| | + | * ‘’’Only in 1984 when John Paul II invited all the world [[bishop]]s (even the non-Roman Catholic ones) to join him to consecrate the world, wherever they were located did [[Soviet Union]] start to dissolve into 15 nations without a war<ref>https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/answers/1984-consecration-documents-14284 Links to Consecration</ref>. |
| | + | *December 1984 Soviet Defense Minister, mastermind of the invasion plans for Europe, suddenly and mysteriously dies. |
| | + | *March 10, 1985 Soviet Chairman Konstantin Chernenko dies |
| | + | *March 11, 1985 Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev elected |
| | + | *April 26, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident illustrates the folly of nuclear war |
| | + | *May 12, 1988 An explosion wrecked the only factory that made the rocket motors for the Soviets’ deadly SS 24 long-range missiles, which carry ten nuclear bombs each. |
| | + | *October 3, 1990 East and West Germany are unified |
| | + | *April 13, 1991 Pope appoints Bishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Apostolic Administrator for Latin Catholics in European Russia (located in Moscow) |
| | + | *December 25, 1991 Dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The nation of Russia is reborn. |
| | + | *[https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/answers/1984-consecration-documents-14284 Read copies of letters here <br> |
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| | == External links == | | == External links == |
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| − | *[http://www.memorare.com/mary/app1917.html Marian Apparitions: Fatima] | + | *[http://www.memorare.com/mary/app1917.html Marian Apparitions: Fatima] |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |