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AS RUMORS ABOUT FATIMA SEER SPREAD, QUESTIONS ARISE ALONG WITH 
CONNECTIONS

@Spirit Daily

For a week now rumors have been rampant that Sister Lucia dos Santos, 
sole
surviving seer from Fatima, recently received another communication 
from the
Virgin and as a result her Mother House (she is a nun) had requested 
that
other Carmelite convents unite with her in a vigil of peace on the 
Feast of
the Rosary -- October 7, which ended up being the day America attacked
Afghanistan.

We are currently working at checking the authenticity of this news. We 
have
no idea if there is anything to it. Rumors are flying fast and thick 
and
have also been especially intense around this special seer -- the most
famous visionary since Saint Bernadette.

We can say this: the last we had heard, Sister Lucia was very weak and 
often
confined to her room. When the weather turns chilly in Portugal (her 
convent
is about 90 miles north of Fatima at Coimbra), a special heater is 
placed in
her room. She is 94. She was born on March 22, 1907, and she suffers 
colds.
As we reported last winter, there were indications that Portugal's 
damp,
inclement weather was affecting her, and she had been confined to her 
"cell"
with a space heater. With warmer weather she moves about and so it is
possible that she has had more communication with her sister nuns 
recently.

It is also likely that her apparitions of the Virgin have not stopped. 
While
the famous apparitions occurred in 1917 (concluding with the "great 
miracle"
on October 13, which we remember this Saturday), she received other 
major
revelations in the 1920s and has hinted to visiting bishops and priests 
that
the visits continue. When asked in 1992 if the Virgin still appeared to 
her,
she responded, "I cannot say." But she smiled when pressed on the 
matter,
and when asked by visitors to ask the Virgin for special graces when 
Our
Blessed Mother next appeared to her, the seer said, "Yes. I will ask 
Our
Lady."

There are indications that even back around the time of the famous
appearances, there were more apparitions or visions than have been 
reported
in popular accounts.

The recent rumors have been spawned by a website called The Remnant, 
which
said it had "been informed by a reliable contact in France that Sister 
Lucy
has delivered a message to Carmelite sisters in France. According to 
this
report, Sister Lucy recently received another communication from the 
Mother
of God. In the wake of that communication, we are told, Sister Lucy has
asked Carmelite sisters throughout the world to pray specifically on 
the
Feast of the Most Holy Rosary for a special intention. That  intention 
is,
we are told, that the world might be spared 'a blood bath.'"

Although Sister Lucia is extremely reticent, and while the language 
seems a
bit lurid, she has been known to voice her thoughts in a forceful way 
and
often told priests that mankind was in the midst of a final battle 
between
good and evil. It is also worthy noting that the famous Fatima secrets
pertained to World War One and World War Two, which means that military
activity has long been associated with this apparition.

That Sister Lucia may now be uniting her fellow nuns for intercession 
or
that her Mother Superior is doing so is thus a possibility. A year ago 
she
and nuns at her convent joined in recitation of the Rosary with those
gathered in Rome for a special entrustment of the world to the 
Immaculate
Heart. That too had been on October 7 -- which is not only the Feast of 
the
Rosary, and not only the day the U.S. struck Afghanistan, but also the
anniversary of the great battle of Lepanto, in which Christian forces 
turned
back Muslim Turks who were set on conquering all of Europe in 1571.

Another irony: Fatima itself was named after the daughter of Mohammed. 
This
part of Portugal, as well as much of Spain, was once under Muslim 
control,
and that era was recently referred to by terrorist Osama Bin Laden in
lamenting the losses by Islam through history.

A further note: the great sign prophesied at Fatima was an unusual 
display
of the northern lights, and the third secret involved an angel. Two 
weeks
ago we ran the photo of unusual lights over Finland -- lights that 
seemed to
form the image of an angel!

We asked at the time and ask again if it was a harbinger of another 
great
war.

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