Today Is the 93rd Anniversary of the July 13 Secret of Fatima

It has been 93 years since the Fatima secrets were given to the three young seers. The following comes from Inside the Vatican:

Ninety-three years ago today, on July 13, 1917 -- precisely when Lenin was beginning to foment the Russian revolution in Petrograd (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Days) -- three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, for the third time in three months on the 13th of the month (May 13, June 13, July 13), saw a Lady appear before them in the air, an apparition, and heard her speak a message.

It was about noon.

Such was the origin of the "secret" of Fatima -- of three secrets, to be precise.

At that moment, in mid-1917, Europe was, for all intents and purposes, committing a type of suicide. World War I was three years old. Hundred of thousands of young men were lined up in trenches on the Western front, and in some battles, like Verdun, hundreds of thousands were killed in a matter of hours, as lines of human flesh surged forward, were mowed down, and surged forward again -- in vain.

In the West, there was stalemate.

In the East, the Russians changed their government, pulled out of the war, and the Germans, essentially, won.

In those months in the middle of 1917, the civilization that had once been called "Christendom" energetically sculpted its own tombstone. (We are putting the finishing touches on that work in our own time.)

Wherever there had been a Christian government, a Christian legislation, a Christian ethos, a Christian world, it was being dismantled.

In central Europe, the Catholic Hapsburg government of Austria-Hungary, heir of the Holy Roman Empire with roots deep in the middle ages, was overthrown. The Emperor Karl and his wife were exiled to the island of Madeira, and the modern, secular states of Austria and Hungary were born.

In Russia, once called "Holy Russia," the Romanovs were overthrown by Lenin, and communism became the official religion of the state, dogmatically atheistic, and the Russian Orthodox Church went into eclipse, fiercely persecuted. The new rulers turned churches into latrines.

In Germany, after the war, the Weimar Republic replaced the rule of the Protestant Hohenzollern Kaiser, and shortly thereafter the National Socialists came on the scene, while in England, the Anglican monarchs, heads of the Church, increasingly gave way to Parliament as Britain too grew ever more secularized.

The three children of Fatima must have dimly conceived of these events, as their elders and parish pastors must have spoken of the terrible war, and of the overthrow of traditional values which was occurring everywhere, and even all around them, in Portugal.

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