>http://www.logon.org/english/s/p288.html
>
>I came across a web page awhile back which examines "The Last Pope" by
>Nostradamus and Malachy O'Morgair Archbishop of Armagh Ireland (died 1148
>A.D.). (On a visit to Pope Innocent II in Rome in 1139, Malachy was granted
>a vision of all the popes of the furture.)
>
>On the website shown above, under the Section called THE NAME OF THE LAST
>POPE, you will read that in the year 1909 Piux X (1835-1914) "during an
>audience with the general Chapter of the Franciscans, fell into a

>semi-trance with his head sunk on his chest and after a few minutes he came
>to and opened his eyes with a look of horror on his face. He reputedly cried
>out:
>
>"What I have seen was terrible...Will it be myself? Will it be my sucessor?
>What is certain is that the Pope will quit Rome, and in fleeing from the
>Vatican he will have to walk over the dead bodies of his priests. Do not
>tell anyone while I am alive." (cf. Stephen Skinner, "Millennium
>Prophecies", Carlton, p. 75).
>
>The Fatima prophecies given to these children was in 1917 and are the same as Malachy's vision. I'd like to know
>if Pope John Paul II and the Vatican are trying to pull the wool over our
>eyes. If what happened with Archbishop Malachy was true, why is there no
>mention of what he saw also? Were the Fatima children, even back in 1917,
>victims of some sort of mind control? Or, can we take it that the prophecy
>is TRUE, according to the CNN.com article -- that the end of the Vatican is
>near? That it's not a prophecy of events PAST, but of FUTURE:
>
>"As the vision continued, the children saw the pope 'passing through a big
>city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain
>and sorrow (and) he prayed for the souls of corpses he met on his way...' "
>
>Today's CNN.com article is below:
>
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/06/26/pope.fatima.reut/index.html
>
>
>Vatican issues text of 'Third Secret of Fatima'
>
>June 26, 2000
>Web posted at: 6:13 a.m. EDT (1013 GMT)
>
>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -- The
>Vatican on Monday released the text of
>the "third secret of Fatima" and a
>document supporting its interpretation
>of the 1917 vision as foretelling the
>papal shooting and communism's
>persecution of Christianity.
>
>The broad outlines of the secret, said to
>have been revealed by the Madonna to
>three Portuguese shepherd children,
>were first disclosed on May 13 during
>the pope's visit to Fatima.
>
>The actual text of the secret was written in 1944 by Lucia dos Santos, now a
>frail, 93-year-old nun who is the only survivor of the three children.
>
>The secret was long feared to contain an
>apocalyptic vision of the end of the world, but in
>a 43-page document called "The Vision of Fatima"
>the Vatican reiterated its view that the secret
>referred to events which appeared to have already
>happened.
>
>In her recollection of the third part of the 1917
>vision, Sister Lucia says she and the other two
>children, Francisco and Jacinta, saw "an angel
>with a flaming sword."
>
>They then saw "a bishop dressed in white (and) we had the impression that it
>was the Holy Father."
>
>As the vision continued, the children saw the pope "passing through a big
>city
>half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and
>sorrow
>(and) he prayed for the souls of corpses he met on his way..."
>
>When the pope reached the top of a mountain and was praying at the foot of a
>cross "he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at
>him"
>as he and bishops, priests and nuns and other people "died one after the
>other."
>
>Angels then "gathered up the blood of the martyrs and with it sprinkled the
>souls
>that were making their way to God."
>
>The document included a photocopy of Sister Lucia's handwritten Portuguese
>words of the secret, which has been kept locked at the Vatican, as well as a
>section justifying its interpretation of the secret.
>
>Before the Vatican decided to reveal the secret last month, papal envoys
>visited
>Sister Lucia in her cloistered convent to seek her opinion of the Pope's
>interpretation and her permission to reveal it.
>
>"She repeated her conviction that the vision of Fatima concerns above all
>the
>struggle of atheistic communism against the Church and against Christians,
>and
>describes the terrible sufferings of the victims of the faith in the
>Twentieth
>Century," the document said.
>
>The document continued: "When asked: 'Is the principal figure in the vision
>the
>Pope?', Sister Lucia replied at once that it was."
>
>Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca shot and nearly killed the pope in St Peter's
>Square in 1981, a time when events in the pope's Polish homeland were
>starting
>the domino effect that would lead to the collapse of communism in Eastern
>Europe.
>
>The document said: "Sister Lucia was in full agreement with the pope's claim
>that 'it was a mother's hand that guided the bullet's path and in his throes
>the
>pope halted at the threshold of death."'
>
>The pope believes that it was the Madonna of Fatima who saved him from death
>by Agca's bullets, which were fired on the anniversary of one of the visions
>reportedly seen by the three shepherd children.
>
>Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, said in a
>commentary that after the shooting, when the pope had the Fatima secret
>brought to his hospital bed, "was it not inevitable that he should see in it
>his own
>fate?"
>
>The first two parts of the secret were known for decades.
>
>In the first, the children said they saw a vision of hell.
>
>In the second part, Mary predicted the outbreak of World War II some 22
>years
>before it started, asked for devotion to her Immaculate Heart and asked that
>Russia, which was about to undergo the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, be
>consecrated to her.
>
>Otherwise, the Madonna is said to have told the children, to whom she
>appeared
>each month from May to October 1917, that Russia, about to become the Soviet
>Union, would "spread her errors" in the world and the pope would suffer
>much.
>
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>
>